Palestinian rocket fire from the area has prompted Israeli forces conducting a weeks-long onslaught in northern Gaza to urge any people still in Beit Hanoun to evacuate, according to residents quoted by Reuters.
Although it was not immediately apparent how many people were impacted, the inhabitants claimed that the order to evacuate had resulted in a fresh wave of relocation.
According to Palestinian health sources, at least 23 individuals were killed yesterday by Israeli military attacks throughout the area. The Palestinian Civil Emergency Service claimed in a statement that one of the attacks at Gaza City’s Al-Wafa Hospital killed seven people and injured others.
No location in Gaza is safe, according to Palestinian and UN officials, and evacuations exacerbate the population’s humanitarian situation.
There are rumors that Israel plans to maintain the region as a closed buffer zone until the combat in Gaza is over because a large portion of the terrain around the northern cities of Beit Hanoun, Jabalia, and Beit Lahiya has been emptied of residents and destroyed.
According to the Palestinian Civil Emergency Service, the raid prevented it from sending teams into the region and caused it to lose contact with those still stranded in the town.
