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Israel has called on Palestinians to leave Gaza City, a move the Red Cross has warned against.
Euro News reports that Israel wants to slow down or halt the entry of aid into northern Gaza. Meanwhile, Israel has started its expanded military offensive in Gaza City.
On Friday, Israel declared the besieged city a combat zone, and claimed that a network of tunnels used by Hamas still remain, despite several previous large-scale raids on the area throughout its nearly 23-month long offensive.
Hospital authorities reported at least 50 Palestinians were killed in Israeli attacks on Saturday, according to several media.
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ICRC President Mirjana Spoljaric said, “A mass evacuation of Gaza City is not only unfeasible but incomprehensible.
“sch an evacuation would trigger a massive population movement that no area in the Gaza Strip can absorb, given the widespread destruction of civilian infrastructure and the extreme shortages oof food, water, shelter and medical care.”
Aid groups have also warned that the largescale evacuation would further worsen the dire humanitarian crisis. Earlier this month, the leading authority on food crises confirmed that Gaza City was in famine and that half a million people ac ross the strip were facing catastrophic levels of hunger.
