The latest travel orders in Rafah and Gaza City forced hundreds of thousands of Palestinians to flee again.
Israel has now limited Palestinian access to about two thirds of Gaza, by declaring large areas such as prohibited areas or by issuing forced travel orders, according to the United Nations Humanitarian Affairs Coordination (OCHA).
Among the limited areas, there is a large band of Southern Rafah, where the soldiers of Israel made a new travel order on March 31, declaring that she was coming back to “fight with great strength”.
The restrictions also cover certain parts of Gaza City, where Israeli troops launched a new offensive on the ground on Friday morning to extend their “security zone”.
These escalations triggered one of the greatest mass trips of the war, pushing hundreds of thousands of Palestinians – many already moved several times – to flee again.
“Our greatest struggle is now moving,” said Abu Hazem Khalef, an old man inappropriate from Gaza City, in Tel Aviv Tribune. “We don’t know how to manage this situation. I head west of Gaza City, looking for a street where I can install a tent. ”
“We are forced to leave and we do not even know where to go,” added Mahmoud al-Gharabli, another moved Palestinian. “We are exhausted and completely broken.”
‘Divide the band’
The military thrust follows the threat of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to intensify the offensive to put Hamas to new concessions on Hamas.
“We now divide the band and increase the pressure step by step so that they give us our hostages,” Netanyahu said in a video message on Wednesday.
Friday, Israeli forces continued devastating air attacks, killing at least 30 people since dawn, according to local medical sources and the Gaza Civil Defense Agency. This followed on Thursday an intense day of bombing which left 112 dead – many of them women and children.
The conditions of the Al-Ahli hospital in Gaza City, also known as the Baptist hospital, where many victims of the north have been taken, are “nothing less than apocalyptic,” said Hani Mahmoud of Tel Aviv Tribune after visiting the establishment.
“We see bodies placed on the ground and they are counted in the 10,” said Mahmoud. “We have seen doctors, they are helpless. They don’t know what to do. They are unable to save lives given the disastrous situation inside the hospital. ”
Israel resumed its attacks in Gaza on March 18, breaking a ceasefire two months after the interviews with Hamas were broken down during the next phase of the agreement.
Netanyahu wants Hamas to disclose the 59 Israeli captives remaining in exchange for Palestinian prisoners and aid, but without Israel to end the war or to withdraw from the troops. For a final cease -fire contract, Netanyahu insists that Hamas must disarm – a request that the group calls a “red line” – and openly supported plans for Israel to grasp the security control of Gaza and expel the Palestinians.
Hamas calls for a return to the ceasefire frame in three stages previously agreed and proposed to release all the captives both in return from a permanent ceasefire.
Since October 7, 2023, the War of Israel in Gaza killed 50,523 Palestinians and injured 114,638. At least 1,139 people were killed in Israel during the October 7 attacks led by Hamas and more than 200 captives.
