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Palestinians were gripped by fear and anxiety on Sunday after the Israeli military said it was preparing to forcibly relocate 1 million people from Gaza City.
The announcement came days after Israel said it intended to launch a new offensive to take control of the territory's largest urban center, in a plan that raised international alarm and ahead of recent IDF strikes in the Palestinian territory, which Gaza health officials said had killed at least 40 people on Saturday, including a baby in a tent and people seeking help.
“Based on the directives of the political leadership and as part of the Israel Defense Forces’ preparations to transfer civilians from the fighting zones in the southern Gaza Strip for their safety, starting tomorrow [Sunday], the provision of tents and shelter equipment to Gaza residents will resume,” said a statement from the Israeli Coordination of Government Activities in the Palestinian Territories (COGAT).
"The equipment will be transferred through the Kerem Shalom border crossing by the United Nations and international aid organizations, after undergoing a thorough inspection by the Ministry of Defense's Land Crossings Authority," she added.
Meanwhile, new recordings broadcast by an Israeli television station showed the Israeli general, who headed military intelligence on October 7, 2023, saying that 50 Palestinians “must die” for every person killed that day and “it doesn’t matter now if they are children.” The channel said the undated conversations were recorded “in recent months.”
And in the US, the State Department announced it would stop issuing visas to children from Gaza who are in dire need of medical care after an online pressure campaign by Laura Loomer, a far-right influencer close to Donald Trump who has described herself as "a proud Islamophobe".
Following Israel's announcement, Palestinians in Gaza - permanently displaced, forced to live in tent camps or among the ruins of their homes, starving and deprived of medical supplies - are bracing for another humanitarian catastrophe, as a new offensive would force them to head south into the territory and an uncertain future.
“We are already devastated and exhausted, physically and psychologically, from repeated displacements, from lack of food and water,” Akram Shlabia, 85, told the Guardian from the Shuja’iyya neighborhood of Gaza City. “And now they want us to go south! Into nothingness, into the unknown, to a place without shelter or basic livelihoods, not even safety.” / The Guardian
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