In just 12 hours after the first Israeli warnings, hundreds of thousands of people had either taken to the roads or been forced from their homes by the airstrikes.
But many chose to stay and face the looming invasion. Some said there was simply no safe place to go in the south, which was far from their friends and relatives. Many also feared the dangers on the roads that Israel said could be used as evacuation routes, but which had been targeted several times by Israeli airstrikes.Medical officials say an estimated 35,000 had crammed into the grounds of Gaza City’s main hospital, hoping for refuge.The order covers an area of 1.
Her father, who is stricken with Parkinson’s and unable to speak, had borne witness to the 1948 Nakba, or “catastrophe”, the term Palestinians use to describe their mass displacement when Israel was founded.Getty “They left their shops and homes,” she said later on Friday, after reaching Deir al-Balah, a central Gaza city that is south of the zone where Israel had ordered the evacuation. “Now, my father is surrounded by his children and is seeing that we have to leave again, that we have to live this again.”
They had just minutes to gather their children and pack some important documents and clothes before the five-storey building was destroyed, bringing down two other buildings.
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