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The Israeli military issued evacuation orders for parts of central Gaza’s al-Bureij refugee camp on Wednesday. People were heard asking, “Where should we go?” and “There is no safe place,” as Israel intensifies its attacks on Gaza’s so-called “safe zone”.
Avichay Adraee, an Israeli army spokesman, published a map of the zones that must be cleared, claiming that rockets were fired at Israel from this area and the Israeli forces had to respond.
“For your own safety, move immediately to the humanitarian zone,” he claimed.
The al-Mawasi area has been heavily targeted by the Israeli military in recent weeks.
The Forensic Architecture website, which has systematically been documenting strikes in Gaza, said that there were five strikes on Mawasi from late May through September 10. Data collected by Dr. Lee Mordechai of Hebrew University, who is tracking developments in Gaza, says that the strikes on Mawasi resumed on November 9, and that in less than a month Israeli struck the area at least eight times, killing scores of people.
Palestinians displaced by Israel’s war on Gaza are “increasingly forced to concentrate within the Israeli-designated zone in al-Mawasi”, an area of approximately 41sq km (15.83sq miles) lacking critical infrastructure and services, according to the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA).
Some 1.9 million people – 90 percent of Gaza’s population – have been displaced at least once by Israel’s war. Of those, roughly 43,580 are estimated to be pregnant women, statistics from the UN Population Fund show.
Many are crowded into flimsy tents after being ordered to al-Mawasi by the Israeli military according to the Quds News Network.
