Israeli army announces it will consider civilians who do not evacuate northern Gaza as "terrorists" and "may kill them"
In leaflets dropped by air over northern Gaza containing an "urgent warning" header, the Israeli army used language threatening civilians in the region.
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The Israeli army has announced that anyone who chooses to remain in the northern Gaza Strip and does not move to the south "will be considered an accomplice to a terrorist organization and may be killed."
While the Israeli army has kept the blockaded Gaza Strip under intense bombardment since October 7, it has issued a call that delivers a new message of massacre to Gazan civilians.
In leaflets dropped by air over northern Gaza by the Israeli army, which contained an "urgent warning" header, the following statements were included, threatening civilians in the region with ethnic cleansing:
"To the residents of the Gaza Strip: Your presence north of the Gaza Valley puts your life in danger. Anyone who does not go south of the Gaza Valley and chooses not to evacuate the northern region may be killed as an accomplice to a terrorist organization."
ISRAEL CONFIRMS
Meanwhile, evaluating the photos of the warning leaflets that were reflected on social media and drew backlash, Israeli Army Spokesperson Avichay Adraee confirmed that the statements written on these leaflets belong to the Israeli army.
In the Gaza Strip, which has a population of approximately 2.3 million, half of the people live in the northern part of the region.
While Israeli officials state that a ground operation against the Gaza Strip will definitely take place, the Israeli army has been warning more than 1 million people in northern Gaza for days to go south. In the attack carried out by Israel on the Al-Ahli Baptist Hospital in Gaza on October 17, 471 people lost their lives, and 342 people were injured, 28 of them seriously.
The Israeli army had also demanded yesterday that the Al-Quds Hospital, located in the south of Gaza, be evacuated immediately "in preparation for bombing."
The Israeli army also warned 20 hospitals located in northern Gaza to evacuate today.
ISRAEL-PALESTINE CONFLICT
The Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of Hamas, launched a comprehensive attack on Israel on the morning of October 7, named "Al-Aqsa Flood."
While thousands of rockets were fired from Gaza toward Israel, Palestinian armed groups raided the Beit Hanoun-Erez Border Crossing on the Gaza-Israel border and seized it.
The armed groups then entered settlements inside Israel from there, and the Israeli army launched an attack on the Gaza Strip with dozens of fighter jets.
It was reported that 1,400 Israelis, 306 of whom were soldiers, were killed and 4,834 Israelis were injured in the attacks from Gaza.
The Palestinian Ministry of Health in Gaza announced that 4,385 people, including 1,756 children, had been killed and more than 13,000 people had been injured in Israel's attacks on Gaza.
It was stated that 84 Palestinians had been killed in attacks by Israeli forces and Jewish settlers in the occupied West Bank. 16 journalists lost their lives in Israel's attacks. In the clashes that began on October 8 on the Israel-Lebanon border between the Israeli army and Hezbollah, 12 Hezbollah members and 3 civilians, one of whom was a journalist, lost their lives. 3 Israeli soldiers and one Israeli civilian also lost their lives in attacks carried out from the Lebanese side.