The aim of Invasion in Gaza City is to expel population

The Israeli army started attacking on Gaza City on Wednesday evening, which forms the prelude to the intake of the area and the expulsion of the population to the south. Earlier, the Israeli Security Cabinet had agreed to a military occupation of Gaza City. On Wednesday morning, plans of the army top were approved for this by the Israeli Minister of Defense Israel Katz.

The invasion is an intensification of the attacks on Gaza City in recent days, especially in the Zeitoun district. According to Hani Mahmoud, correspondent for Al Jazeera in Gaza City, houses are also systematically destroyed in the attacked areas and residents receive phone calls from the army with the order.

The systematic destruction of Gaza City is already ongoing

“We are confronted with the most severe air strikes-houses collapse and neighbors are forced to flee from one place to another under bombing,” a resident of Gaza City told the Israeli newspaper earlier this week Haaretz.

“The systematic destruction of Gaza City is already ongoing,” wrote the Bureau of the High Commissioner for Human Rights of the United Nations on Wednesday in a statement. Since 8 August, the agency has reported dozens of attacks on houses and residential buildings and the death of complete families during the attacks. It also speaks of a repetition of previously used methods and warfare in North Gaza and the southern Rafah-including mass murders, forced displacement, starvation and systematic destruction.

Threat

The Israeli army also carries out attacks with air strikes and tanks in Jabalia, in North Gaza. According to Haaretz, flyers were dropped by the army with which the inhabitants command to leave for the south. But the population in the North is partly weakened by hunger and injury to go to the south, where a large part of the Palestinian population is already staying in overcrowded tent camps and also attacks.

An estimated hundreds of thousands of Palestinians are staying in Gaza City. The city is already largely in ruins due to earlier attacks. In October 2023, the population also received the order of the army to leave for the south. During the unilateral file with Hamas in March in March, part of the displaced population of the city had returned to the north.

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The intensified attacks on Gaza City follow weeks-long tensions between Israeli political leadership, including Prime Minister Netanyahu, and the army and security stop. Army chef Eyal Zamir had previously indicated that such an invasion would jeopardize the living hostages from Israel. He also said he needed months for the preparation of the invasion and the mobilization of reservists. On Wednesday it was announced that 60,000 reservists will be called up in the coming weeks.

In addition, the attacks on large -scale protests and a general strike in Israel follow last weekend. Demonstrants see the announced intake of Gaza City as a threat to the lives of the remaining hostages and manage to an agreement with Hamas. Critics in Israel also point out that earlier large -scale invasions in Gaza have not led to the “destruction” of Hamas still preached by Netanyahu.

Smaller area

With the attacks on Gaza city and the continuation of the plans for an intake of the area, Israel drives a renewed agreement further out of sight. Earlier this week, Hamas announced that the agreement is with a proposal for a file of the Egyptian and Qatarese mediators. The Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu, however, managed to take Gaza City’s intake, with which he again showed little to be concerned about the growing domestic criticism.

In the meantime, in Gaza the expulsion of the Palestinian population threatens to an even smaller area in the south, and further deterioration of the humanitarian situation. The International Red Cross wrote on Wednesday in a statement that the intake of Gaza city “will deteriorate an already disastrous situation”. The reporting from the north of Gaza is now limited. Earlier this month, the Israeli army killed a team of Al Jazeera journalists in Gaza City through a targeted attack.

According to the Palestinian Ministry of Health, Israel killed more than sixty Palestinians in Gaza on Wednesday, including nineteen trying to receive food aid. Three Palestinians also died again because of the Israeli blockade of food aid. According to UNRWA, the UN organization for Palestinian refugees, one in three children in Gaza is currently malnourished.

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