Thousands of Gaza residents fled their city on Friday after Israel issued a call to leave the city within 24 hours. Mohammed Abed / AFP
DECRYPTION – Preparing its offensive, the Israeli army ordered Gazans on Friday to evacuate towards the south of this territory, deprived of water, electricity and constantly bombarded.
Special envoy to Ashdod (southern Israel)
The order for the complete evacuation of the northern Gaza Strip came at dawn on Friday, in a statement from the Israeli army. Further worsening an already nightmarish situation, it caused panic among more than 1 million people. It raises fears of a humanitarian crisis of unprecedented magnitude, in the face of which international organizations are currently helpless. A cramped territory, subject to a total blockade by Israel, the Gaza Strip has one of the highest population densities in the world.
Since the Hamas terrorist attack against Israel on Saturday October 7, nothing has gone in: no water, no electricity, no gasoline, no food. The 2.2 million inhabitants are subjected to intense bombardments. The number of Palestinians killed since the start of the war stands at 1,900. During the night from Thursday to Friday, 750 targets were struck. Friday afternoon, from the city of Ashdod, twenty kilometers north of theā¦