In the most recent indication that it intends to strike Hamas in south Gaza after capturing the north, Israel issued a new warning to Palestinians in the southern city of Khan Younis, urging them to go west, out of the line of fire and closer to humanitarian help.
“We’re asking people to relocate. I know it’s not easy for many of them, but we don’t want to see civilians caught up in the crossfire,” Mark Regev, an aide to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, told MSNBC on Friday.
Such a move could compel hundreds of thousands of Palestinians who fled south from the Israeli assault on Gaza City to relocate again, along with residents of Khan Younis, worsening a dire humanitarian crisis.
Israel vowed to annihilate the Hamas militant group that controls the Gaza Strip following an Oct. 7 rampage into Israel. Since then, Israel has bombed much of Gaza City to rubble, ordered the depopulation of the entire northern half of the enclave, and left homeless around two-thirds of the strip’s 2.3 million Palestinians.
“We’re asking people to relocate. I know it’s not easy for many of them, but we don’t want to see civilians caught up in the crossfire,” Mark Regev, an aide to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, told MSNBC on Friday.
Such a move could compel hundreds of thousands of Palestinians who fled south from the Israeli assault on Gaza City to relocate again, along with residents of Khan Younis, worsening a dire humanitarian crisis.
Israel vowed to annihilate the Hamas militant group that controls the Gaza Strip following an Oct. 7 rampage into Israel. Since then, Israel has bombed much of Gaza City to rubble, ordered the depopulation of the entire northern half of the enclave, and left homeless around two-thirds of the strip’s 2.3 million Palestinians.
