Waving white flags and holding identification papers aloft, residents of northern Gaza were seen fleeing south during a four-hour window allotted by the Israel Defense Forces for civilians to escape Tuesday. <\/p>\n
Videos from the scene, including one published by the IDF, show scores of Palestinians heading south, including children, women and elderly people. <\/p>\n
The IDF has repeatedly called on civilians to move south of Wadi Gaza as it intensifies its assault on Hamas in Gaza City and northern Gaza. <\/p>\n
Wedad Al-Ghoul, traveling with her young son, said she had walked 8 to 9 kilometers so far (roughly 5 miles) from her home on Gaza\u2019s coast. <\/p>\n
\u201cI am carrying my ID because I was told\u00a0it\u00a0(the passage) will be safe, I don\u2019t know if I am going to be allowed to enter or arrive to the south,\u201d she said. <\/p>\n
\u201cI am a resident of Al-Shejaiya neighborhood\u2026 We saw death in our own eyes, the floor was exploding from under us. I have only one son and three daughters, I can\u2019t walk, where do we go? No house, no food, no water; they left us with nothing,\u201d\u00a0Zaher said. <\/p>\n
Avichay Adraee, the IDF spokesperson for Arabic media, said via X, formerly Twitter, on Tuesday that\u00a0safe passage was allowed on Salah Eddin Street\u00a0from 10\u00a0a.m.\u00a0to 2\u00a0p.m.\u00a0local time. Accompanying the announcement, he posted a video showing displaced persons walking past an Israeli tank on the same street. <\/p>\n
About\u00a05,000 people fled to southern Gaza\u00a0by foot during a four-hour window on Monday,\u00a0according to the\u00a0UN\u2019s Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs. <\/p>\n
Since Saturday, Israel has opened up a humanitarian corridor for four hours each day for Gazans to move south. <\/p>\n
But there are no fully protected zones in Gaza. Eyewitnesses described multiple explosions in central and southern Gaza on Tuesday morning that they said were caused by Israeli airstrikes. <\/p>\n
In the central Gazan city of Deir al-Balah, at least two blasts were reported in a camp for displaced people south of the Wadi Gaza waterway.\u00a0Videos from the city show wounded children being carried away in the arms of adults. <\/p>\n
Amid outcry over the damage inflicted on residential areas, medical facilities and UN-run schools being used as shelters in Gaza, the IDF said Tuesday that it is prepared to strike at Hamas \u201cwherever necessary,\u201d including civilian infrastructure if Israel believes Hamas is using it. <\/p>\n
UN relief agency UNRWA has described conditions in its shelters as overcrowded and \u201cinhumane,\u201d warning in a statement on Monday of a looming public health crisis due to damaged water and sanitation infrastructure. <\/p>\n
More than 10,000 people have been killed in Gaza since Israel\u2019s siege began, according to figures from the Palestinian health authority in Ramallah, drawn from sources in the Hamas-controlled enclave. Israel says the goal of the air and ground offensive in Gaza is the complete elimination of Hamas, after the militant group killed 1,400 people in Israel and kidnapped about 240 others in bloody terror attacks on October 7. <\/p>\n
Israel has accused Hamas of using civilians and civilian structures including hospitals as shields; Hamas and several hospitals in the enclave have denied that. <\/p>\n
Over the past month Israel has attacked more than 14,000 \u201cterrorist targets,\u201d an IDF spokesman said Tuesday, claiming to have eliminated Hamas fighters and destroyed Hamas tunnel shafts and weapons. <\/p>\n
Biden told reporters Tuesday that he had asked the Israeli leader, when the two spoke on the phone on Monday, to consider a humanitarian pause. <\/p>\n
Yet Netanyahu insists he will not permit a ceasefire until Hamas releases the hundreds of hostages it still holds in Gaza. Shorter pauses in the fighting \u2013 what the prime minister described as \u201ctactical little pauses\u201d in an interview with ABC news on Monday \u2013 may be permitted for the passage of humanitarian goods or hostages, he said. <\/p>\n
The US has also warned Israel over its plans for Gaza after the war ends, following Netanyahu\u2019s comments to ABC that Israel should have \u201coverall security responsibility\u201d in the Palestinian enclave for an \u201cindefinite period.\u201d <\/p>\n
\u201cWe have to distinguish between a security presence and political control,\u201d Mark Regev said. \u201cWhen this is over and we have defeated Hamas, it is crucial that there won\u2019t be a resurgent terrorist element, a resurgent Hamas. There is no point doing this and just going back to square one.\u201d <\/p>\n\n
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