Palestinians flee as Israel strikes Gaza City with ‘unprecedented force’

Israel Bat Gaza City With some of the heaviest strikes in two years of war in his attempt to force residents to make a perilous and expensive trip to the overcrowded.

Avichay Adraee, spokesperson for the Arab language of the Israeli army, warned the besieged population of Gaza City on Friday that he would deploy an “unprecedented force”, telling them to “seize this opportunity and join the hundreds of thousands” to move south on Al-Rrashid Coastal Road-now the only authorized escape route.

Tareq Abu Azzoum by Al Jazeera related Friday, “painful” of Gaza City, with people forced west to the coastal road unable to rest under the incessant rhythm of attacks aimed at leveling buildings and infrastructure.

“This current military operation completely destroys whole blocks, and there are still families trapped under the debris of targeted houses, in particular in the Tal al-Hawa district,” said Abu Azzoum, reporting from Nuseirat in the center of Gaza.

Although an increasing number of Palestinians can now leave, despite their previous resistance, many are unable to afford the cost of leaving a vehicle to take household items and furniture in the Al-Mawasi region overcrowded in the south of Gaza.

However, Abu Azzoum said hundreds have embarked on the long trip, a lot on foot, Al-Mawasi, which has itself been subjected to an Israeli attack in the past despite a “security zone”.

Nivin Ahmed, 50, fled south of Gaza City to the central city of Deir El-Balah on Thursday, walking with seven family members.

“We have traveled more than 15 km [9 miles]We were rampant in exhaustion, “she told the AFP news agency.” My youngest son cried with fatigue. We have turned a small cart in turn with some of our personal effects. »»

“ Dangerous situation at all levels ”

The Israeli army said that around 480,000 Palestinians had fled the city of Gaza since the end of August, while the Gaza Civil Defense Agency said on Friday that some 450,000 had been moved south.

Take part in the United Nations, estimates of a million people living in the largest urban center in the enclave at the time, around half of the population may have already fled.

However, the Palestinian Statistics Central Office said this week that around 740,000 people were still in the north of the enclave on Tuesday.

According to medical sources, Israeli forces have killed 43 people across the strip since dawn, including 26 people in Gaza City.

Three civilians were killed in an Israeli air strike that targeted a residential house in Tal al-Hawa in Gaza City, near the Netzarim corridor, sources said in Al Jazeera.

The number of deaths on Friday also includes two aid seekers who were killed by the Israeli army in southern Gaza.

A medical source from the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Central Gaza told Al Jazeera that a nine-year-old child died of serious malnutrition in the pediatric district of the hospital in the middle of the aggravation of famine in the enclave.

The last case bears the total number of deaths of the artificial famine of Israel to 441 since the start of the war against Gaza, according to figures from the Ministry of Health in Gaza.

Hospitals find it difficult to deal with any fuel that has not entered the band for more than 10 days, according to Amjad Shawa, head of the Palestinian NGO network in Gaza.

He said that fuel supplies in the besieged enclave will only last 72 hours, pre-pre-prevented a “dangerous situation at all levels”.