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Monday, October 7, 2024
IDF calls on residents of northern Gaza to evacuate to humanitarian zone
Emanuel (Mannie) Fabian is The Times of Israel's military correspondent
The IDF is calling on Palestinians in northern Gaza’s Beit Hanoun, Jabaliya, and Beit Lahiya to evacuate to the Israeli-designated humanitarian zone in the Strip’s south.
Yesterday, the IDF said it was expanding the size of the zone ahead of plans to operate in northern Gaza and evacuate all civilians from there.
“IDF forces are currently operating with great force in the area. For your safety, you must evacuate these areas immediately,” Col. Avichay Adraee, the IDF’s Arabic-language spokesman says, publishing a map of the zones that are to be evacuated.
He says the Salah a-Din road will be open as a humanitarian corridor between 8 a.m. and 5 p.m. today, to allow civilians to flee to southern Gaza.
Tens of thousands of Palestinians are believed by Israel to still be in northern Gaza, among them thousands of terror operatives who survived previous IDF operations that saw Hamas’s battalions in the area dismantled.
#عاجل ‼️ إلى سكان بيت حانون وجباليا وبيت لاهيا وجميع السكان المتواجدين في مناطق الاخلاء A1-3, D6, D2, B1-3
⭕️تعمل قوات جيش الدفاع في هذه الأثناء بقوة شديدة في المنطقة.
⭕️من أجل سلامتكم عليكم اخلاء هذه المناطق فورًا نحو المنطقة الإنسانية المستحدثة في المواصي
⭕️شارع صلاح الدين متاح… pic.twitter.com/8qyt1eZOT8— افيخاي ادرعي (@AvichayAdraee) October 7, 2024
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