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Friday, August 16, 2024
IDF issues day’s second Gaza evacuation order. This time in Beit Hanoun
Emanuel (Mannie) Fabian is The Times of Israel's military correspondent
The Israeli military is calling on Palestinians in the Beit Hanoun area of northern Gaza 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 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, less than 200,000 Palestinians remain, according to recent IDF assessments.
The evacuation order in Beit Hanoun is unrelated to an earlier order given in the Khan Younis and Deir al-Balah area of the southern Gaza Strip.
Earlier this month, the IDF issued a similar evacuation order for Beit Hanoun following rocket fire on southern Israel.
#عاجل ‼️ نداء الى كل سكان 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 ضد تلك العناصر.
⭕️من أجل أمنكم، انتقلوا بشكل فوري الى… pic.twitter.com/bQyBvwGq8B
— افيخاي ادرعي (@AvichayAdraee) August 16, 2024
