Israel issues forced displacement order in central Gaza in new campaign

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Thousands of leaflets dropped implicit Deir el-Balah, ordering Palestinians to determination to a ‘safe zone’ Israel has repeatedly bombed.

Published On 20 Jul 2025

The Israeli subject has issued a caller forced evacuation informing for the Palestinians successful cardinal Gaza, ordering them to determination southbound to al-Mawasi, an country Israel has regularly attacked contempt declaring it a “safe zone”.

Thousands of leaflets were dropped implicit Deir el-Balah connected Sunday, telling displaced families surviving successful tents successful respective densely populated parts of the metropolis to permission immediately.

The Israeli subject warned of imminent enactment against Hamas fighters successful the country arsenic it continued its deadly attacks connected unarmed and starving civilians desperately looking for food, killing dozens of Palestinians on Sunday, astatine slightest 73 of them aid seekers successful bluish Gaza.

In a station connected X, the military’s Arabic-language spokesperson Avichay Adraee said residents and displaced Palestinians sheltering successful the Deir el-Balah country should permission immediately.

Israel was “expanding its activities” astir Deir el-Balah, including “in an country wherever it has not operated before”, Adraee said, telling Palestinians to “move southbound towards the al-Mawasi area” connected the Mediterranean seashore “for your safety”.

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A video verified by Al Jazeera showed the Israeli service dropping immense amounts of leaflets implicit residential areas successful Deir el-Balah, notifying Palestinians of the order.

‘Nowhere other to go’

Al Jazeera’s Hind Khoudary, reporting from Deir el-Balah, said the country targeted by Israel is densely populated and it would beryllium “impossible” for the affected residents to permission connected abbreviated notice.

“Palestinians present are refusing to permission and accidental they are going to enactment successful their houses due to the fact that adjacent the areas designated arsenic harmless by the Israeli service person been targeted,” she said.

“Palestinians accidental they person obscurity other to go, and determination is nary abstraction due to the fact that astir occidental areas oregon adjacent al-Mawasi are afloat of radical and tents with nary much other abstraction for expansion. They are near with zero options.”

GazaAn injured Palestinian lad cries astatine the Nasser Medical Complex successful Khan Younis successful confederate Gaza arsenic helium sits connected the crushed adjacent to men wounded portion queueing for nutrient assistance [AFP]

The Israeli subject issued the informing arsenic Israel and Hamas held indirect ceasefire talks successful Qatar, but planetary mediators said determination person been nary breakthroughs.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has repeatedly stressed that expanding Israeli subject operations successful Gaza volition unit Hamas to negotiate, but negotiations person been stalled for months.

This month, the Israeli subject said it controlled much than 65 percent of the Gaza Strip.

Most of Gaza’s colonisation of much than 2 cardinal radical has been displaced astatine slightest erstwhile during the war, which is present successful its 22nd month. Israel has repeatedly ordered Palestinians to permission oregon look attacks successful ample parts of the coastal enclave.

The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs said successful January that much than 80 percent of the Gaza Strip was nether unrevoked Israeli evacuation threats and galore of their residents were living with starvation.

A 35-day-old babe successful Gaza City and a four-month-old kid successful Deir el-Balah died of malnutrition astatine Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital this weekend.

On Saturday, at slightest 116 Palestinians were killed, galore of them assistance seekers trying to get nutrient from organisation sites tally by the Israeli- and United States-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF).

At slightest 900 Palestinians hopeless to find nutrient person been killed astatine the sites since the GHF began operating them successful precocious May arsenic an Israeli blockade has prevented nutrient and different necessities from the UN and different assistance groups from coming into Gaza.

The genocide has prompted Pope Leo XIV to denounce the “barbarity” of the warfare arsenic helium urged against the “indiscriminate usage of force”.

“I erstwhile again inquire for an contiguous extremity to the barbarity of the warfare and for a peaceful solution to the conflict,” Leo said during a supplication gathering adjacent Rome connected Sunday.

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