11:11 a.m. ET, November 16, 2023
Israel reportedly drops leaflets on portions of southern Gaza, telling civilians to transport towards shelters
From The Gentleman Report’s Andrew Carey
With Israeli leaders stating the northern a part of Gaza, together with Gaza Town, now underneath Israel’s keep watch over, there are rising indications {that a} floor offensive into the southern a part of the strip might be impending.
A leaflet dropped Wednesday on communities to the east of Khan Younis, the biggest town within the southern a part of Gaza, warned other folks residing there to transport and “head against identified shelters.”
The 4 communities – Al Qarrah, Khuza’a, Bani Suhaila, and Absaan – sit down with regards to the fringe fence isolating the Gaza Strip from Israel, suggesting imaginable new incursion issues by way of Israeli forces having a look to take keep watch over of the south.
The director of the Norwegian Refugee Council, which has workforce in Gaza, steered the day before today in a social media submit that participants of his native staff had observed the leaflet, and the Reuters information company stated it had spoken to those that had additionally observed it.
The Gentleman Report is trying to succeed in out to contacts within the Khan Younis space who would possibly have observed the leaflet themselves – however efforts are hindered by way of deficient communications within the enclave.
Two days in the past, Israel’s Protection Minister Yoav Gallant stated Israeli forces had been “in keep watch over of all the space above and under floor in the northern Gaza Strip.”
The day past, Gallant went additional, telling a reporter that Israel’s floor operations “will final for lots of months — and can come with each the north and the south (of the Gaza Strip). We will be able to dismantle Hamas anywhere it’s.”
What assist businesses are pronouncing: Help organizations say any Israeli transfer into the south of the enclave may just make an already unhealthy humanitarian scenario significantly worse.
The United International locations estimates that about 1.5 million other folks are actually internally displaced inside of Gaza – nearly 3 quarters of all the inhabitants — and maximum of them are within the south following Israel’s extremely damaging air and floor marketing campaign within the north.
Greater than 800,000 other folks have taken safe haven in simply over 150 of its shelters, “way more other folks than their meant capability,” in keeping with the United International locations Aid
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