Israel is continuing to advance on Gaza City, which it says is the hub of Hamas's military operations
Israel is continuing to advance on Gaza City, which it says is the hub of Hamas’s military operationsHundreds of thousands of civilians are trapped with little food in Gaza City which is surrounded by Israeli troops as they continue their ground offensive against Hamas.
There are estimated to be between 300,000 and 500,000 civilians remaining in north Gaza and Gaza City, some of whom are believed to be elderly people, according to several aid organisationsRoutes out of the city have been cut off, aid staff reported, with one Islamic Relief aid worker saying that the “main road south from Gaza City is completely blocked.”
“That’s been communicated both in the messaging of the Israeli Government, saying we’ve surrounded Gaza City, and also in the instances of people moving and been caught in the open,” he said. People wait in tent shelters in the darkness as fuel for electricity generators runs out, outside Al-Shifa hopsital in Gaza City on Thursday evening.
“How can everyone evacuate when nobody has a safe route out and there’s little or no fuel to move, nowhere safe to go, and you have people with serious injuries from the bombardment?” “People stay there because it’s their home,” she said. “They have no place to go to, and/or they don’t have relatives in the south. There is no safe place in Gaza. People were killed while they were trying to evacuate and hundreds were killed in the south and middle areas. The areas where people were instructed to move to are not safe.”
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