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Thursday, November 9, 2023
IDF opens evacuation corridor from northern Gaza to south, with extended hours
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleEmanuel (Mannie) Fabian is The Times of Israel's military correspondent
The Israel Defense Forces’s Arabic-language Spokesman, Lt. Col. Avichay Adraee, says Israel will again open a corridor for Gazan civilians in the north of the Strip to escape southward.
Adraee writes on X that Israel will open Salah-al-Din Street for southward traffic between 10 a.m. and 4 p.m. Previous days saw the corridor open for only four hours.
He says that yesterday some 50,000 Gazans took advantage of the safe route to head to southern Gaza.
“Do not listen to what some Hamas leaders say from their hotels abroad or from the underground places they have arranged for themselves and their family members,” Adraee warns. “For your safety, take advantage of the [opening of Salah a-Din] to move south, beyond Wadi Gaza.”
The IDF has warned that northern Gaza is a battle zone, as it moves to target Hamas’s main stronghold in the area.
#عاجل يا سكان غزة،
????أخبركم ان اليوم مثل الأيام الماضية يسمح جيش الدفاع من جديد التنقل عن طريق صلاح الدين بين الساعة العاشرة (10:00) صباحًا والساعة الرابعة (16:00) مساء.
????لقد شاهدنا استجابة كبيرة للمطالبات والنداءات حيث توجه أمس نحو 50 ألف من سكان منطقة شمال القطاع الى جنوب… pic.twitter.com/w6y57D6kRA— افيخاي ادرعي (@AvichayAdraee) November 9, 2023
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