TEL AVIV (dpa-AFX) – After several calls to evacuate the civilian population of the Gaza Strip, according to Israeli military information, more than 600,000 Palestinians have moved to the south of the narrow coastal strip. Israel’s army spokesman Daniel Hagari announced this on Sunday. In contrast to the Islamist Hamas, which rules in the Gaza Strip, Israel’s military wants to cause as little harm as possible to uninvolved citizens, he emphasized.
According to the information, a week after Hamas’s unprecedented terrorist attack, the army was also able to confirm the kidnapping of 155 people from Israel to the Gaza Strip. Their relatives have been informed. The army “will do everything” to bring them home, it said.
Observers assume that the Israeli military has asked the more than one million Palestinians in the north of the coastal strip to evacuate to the south because a ground offensive is imminent./cir/DP/he