The Israeli army urged Palestinians in a message posted on Twitter to go to the southern Gaza Strip, where humanitarian aid from Egypt and the United States will increase on Sunday.
“Civilians from the northern Gaza Strip and Gaza City should temporarily move south of Wadi Gaza to a safer area where they can receive water, food and medicine. “Tomorrow (Sunday, editor’s note), humanitarian efforts in Gaza will be stepped up under the leadership of Egypt and the United States,” said the army, which has relentlessly controlled the Gaza Strip since the bloody Hamas attack on its territory on October 7 bombed.
On October 9, Israel also imposed a “total siege” on the Gaza Strip, cutting off water, electricity and food supplies at a time when the territory, home to 2.4 million people, was already under an Israeli land, air and sea blockade. since Hamas came to power in 2007.
According to the United Nations, a total of 84 trucks carrying humanitarian aid have arrived in Gaza via Egypt since October 21; the organization estimates that 100 are needed per day.
Since October 15, the Israeli army has called on the population in the north of the territory, where the bombing is most intense, to evacuate to the south.
But attacks also continue to occur in the south, where several hundred thousand civilians gather near the closed Egyptian border. According to the United Nations, thousands of Palestinians have returned to the north because of a lack of shelter and aid in the south.
Separately, the Internet network in the Gaza Strip will be restored on Sunday after it was disrupted on Friday during the intense Israeli bombardment, network monitoring organization Netblocks and Palestinian telephone company Paltel announced.
An AFP employee in Gaza City confirmed that he had access to the internet and mobile networks and had managed to contact people in the south of the Palestinian territory.