Fleeing Gaza City residents waved white flags as they marched south along a “dangerous’’ evacuation route during the four-hour window Israel gave before its ground forces were set to storm the area.
Israel has announced that its forces were pushing deep into Gaza City, where residents said tanks were positioned on the outskirts for a potential storming of Gaza s urban heartland. Israel previously said it had surrounded Gaza City, home to around a third of the Gaza Strip s 2.3 million people, and would soon attack it to annihilate Hamas fighters who assaulted Israeli towns across the border one month ago.
“For the first time in decades, IDF is fighting in the heart of Gaza City. At the heart of terrorism,” Major General Yaron Finkelman told reporters near the Gaza border.
Israel said on Tuesday its forces were pushing deep into Gaza City, where residents said tanks were positioned on the outskirts for a potential storming of Gaza's urban heartland. "For the first time in decades, IDF is fighting in the heart of Gaza City. At the heart of terrorism," Major General Yaron Finkelman, commanding officer of the Southern Command of the Israeli Defense Forces, told reporters near the Gaza border. "Every day and every hour the forces are killing militants, exposing tunnels and destroying weapons and continuing onward to enemy centers."