Air raids and non-stop Israeli incursions into the Gaza Strip overnight with "numerous casualties" reported by the Palestinian media in the West Bank, and calls to revoke the order to evacuate more than a million people from Gaza City to the south issued yesterday by Israel, so far unheeded. The Palestinian media speak of "many victims" suggesting a further escalation of the conflict. The Israeli Army (IDF) is bombing Hezbollah positions in Lebanon after the downing of two unidentified aircraft over Haifa from the Land of the Cedars. Hareetz reports. Meanwhile, the bombing of the Gaza Strip continues, as shown by live TV.
Israel's evacuation plan is "absolutely impossible to implement" for EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell because "imagining being able to move a million people in 24 hours in a situation like that of Gaza can only be a humanitarian crisis," Borrell added. It's a scenario to be avoided."
Tens of thousands of people in Gaza are believed to have fled their homes and moved south following Israel's evacuation notice, according to the latest estimates from the UN humanitarian office Ocha. Before the evacuation order, more than 400,000 Palestinians were already internally displaced.
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The UN urges the contenders to respect the rules and not to use civilians as shields. Meanwhile, the search for hostages in the hands of Hamas continues. President Joe Biden says the U.S. is "working like a damn" to bring Americans missing from Israel back to the United States.
A new appeal to Israel to lift the evacuation order from northern Gaza has been issued by 12 international NGOs, including Oxfam.
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