In accordance with the Israeli army’s evacuation request, hundreds of thousands of people in the Gaza Strip headed south. “We are aware that this will take time,” military spokesman Richard Hecht said today. Hamas is also trying to detain civilians.
The Israeli military had already guaranteed residents of the northern Gaza Strip a period of time and an escape route without attacks to move south of the coastal enclave. Observers assume that the Israeli military has asked the more than one million Palestinians in the northern coastal strip to evacuate because a ground offensive is imminent.
Since the unprecedented massacre of Israeli civilians by terrorists on behalf of Hamas in border towns and at a music festival, the Israeli military has carried out heavy airstrikes against targets in the densely populated coastal strip.