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Wednesday, August 7, 2024
IDF calls on Gaza’s Beit Hanoun area to evacuate after rockets fired from area
Emanuel (Mannie) Fabian is The Times of Israel's military correspondent
Following yesterday’s rocket fire on Sderot and Ashkelon from the northern Gaza Strip, the Israeli military is calling on Palestinians in the Beit Hanoun area to evacuate and head to “shelters in the center of Gaza City.”
Col. Avichay Adraee, the IDF’s Arabic-language spokesman, publishes a list of the zones that need to be evacuated alongside the announcement.
Adraee says that the IDF will “forcefully and immediately operate” against terror groups in the Beit Hanoun area.
The IDF has carried out numerous small raids in Beit Hanoun since dismantling the local Hamas battalion there during the initial months of the ground offensive.
Not many Palestinian civilians are thought to be in the Beit Hanoun area. In all of northern Gaza, fewer than 200,000 Palestinians remain, according to recent IDF assessments.
#عاجل ‼️ نداء الى كل المتواجدين في منطقة بيت حانون واحياء المنشية والشيخ زايد والنازحين في داخل المآوي في المنطقة
⭕️حماس والمنظمات الإرهابية تطلق الصواريخ من منطقتكم نحو دولة اسرائيل.
جيش الدفاع الإسرائيلي سوف يعمل بقوة وفوراً ضدهم.⭕️من اجل أمنكم، اخلوا بشكل فوري الى المآوي… pic.twitter.com/PkYwwJqEc2
— افيخاي ادرعي (@AvichayAdraee) August 6, 2024
