Palestinian families are forcibly fleeing from the eastern and southern areas of Deir al-Balah city in central Gaza, where the Israeli occupation has designated the city as a “safe zone.” pic.twitter.com/WUbKocmcUN
— Chris Hutchinson (@ChrisHu34451470) August 22, 2024
⚫️Mass killing
Today, in the so-called safe zone and the largest displaced persons camp in the southern Gaza Strip, there was an advance by the occupation forces from the eastern region, and at the same time, gunfire was fired from the warships from the western side.
⚫️القتل… pic.twitter.com/IKesirWbBs
— Hassan Hamad (@Hassan_hamad77) August 21, 2024
Israel has been playing a game of see-saw with the people of Gaza. They start bombing a place and then tell them to move to a different place. Then they bomb the place they moved to, and say they should move back to where they were before.
It’s become clear now that the only goal of the military operation in Gaza is to kill everyone. This is what Andrew Anglin said in the first place, when Israel first invaded: “defeating Hamas” would only be possible by killing everyone.
Thousands of people facing Israeli airstrikes in Gaza have been forced to abandon plans to comply with Israeli evacuation orders telling them to move to a designated “safe humanitarian zone” because there is no space for them there.
At the weekend the Israeli military told residents of multiple neighbourhoods in and around the central Gaza town of Deir al-Balah to leave their homes before planned attacks and go to the narrow strip of coast around the small town of al-Mawasi that was designated earlier in the war to receive displaced people.
“My uncles and father tried to find a new safer place to move our family to but their efforts did not succeed yet as all spaces within the safe zone are occupied,” said a 34-year-old woman who has been living with 16 relatives on the edge of the designated safe area, who did not want to be named.
Humanitarian officials confirmed the overcrowding in the humanitarian zone was dissuading those given evacuation orders by the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) from leaving, despite the dangers of remaining.
“There’s just no space and people know that, so they stay where they are. You can’t get hold of tents, so even if you found somewhere, it would be difficult to get any shelter, and conditions there are terrible,” said a UN official based in Gaza. “Some people refuse to move [to al-Mawasi] because they just don’t want to leave their homes but most because they’ll have nowhere to live if they go there.”
With protests against this slaughter starting up again, the most logical move for Israel is to escalate the war, spreading it into Lebanon and then Iran as soon as possible. That will make them look more like victims again, because they will actually be fighting soldiers instead of children, and it will be easier for US politicians to defend.