Satellite images show Palestinians fleeing Israeli assault on Gaza
Satellite imagery shows the mass movement of Palestinians while the Israeli army has launched its intense efforts to take total control of Gaza City.
Large tent camps across the Sheik Radwan district, northwest of the city center, almost completely emptied in the first weeks of September while the residents fled the operation and headed south to what the Israeli army calls an designated humanitarian zone.
Israeli tanks and troops have pushed in the city in recent days, supported by a deadly air bombing campaign. Internet and telephone lines seemed to have been cut on the enclave, The Palestinian telecommunications company said.
The Israeli army did not immediately respond to a request for comments on the reports of a power failure.
And while many said they had no choice but to stay in the city of Gaza despite the offensive on the ground, hundreds of thousands fled – a lot during their last trip in this war.
In an image taken just north of the Al-Furqan mosque in Sheik Radwan on September 2, at least 250 tents are visible. On September 15, there are less than 50 left.
An area previously used as a parking lot for the neighborhood market housed nearly 200 tents on September 2. On September 16, they all disappeared.
A third refugee camp, on rue Salah Khalaf, had more than 125 tents on September 2. September 15,, They had all left too.
Drone sequences traveling on social networks on Wednesday and geolocate by NBC News in Sheik Radwan showed several explosions while tanks crossed the neighborhood.
Cars and carts loaded with personal effects have filled the al-Rrashid road, which runs along the Gaza coast at dawn on Thursday.
But the aid groups have warned that the conditions in the South are also disastrous, the famine spreading in the enclave and rare food and medicine supplies.
“We are looking for a place, and we cannot find it,” said a woman, Maysa Kamal Gaber Nasar, carrying a baby, the personal effects of his family scattered on the ground by a cart.
His family had fled Gaza City to the south to Khan Younis, where they tried to find a shelter for more than three days.
“They said to us:” Sure, for sure “,” she said. “But there is nothing.”
