“Israel” Threatens Larger Onslaught in Gaza with New Evacuation Orders

By Staff, Agencies

"Israeli" occupation forces [IOF] chief of staff, Lt. Gen. Eyal Zamirhas, threatened a larger onslaught in Gaza as the entity issued fresh evacuation orders ahead of a planned invasion across the besieged Palestinian region.

“If we do not see progress in the return of the captives in the near future, we will expand our activities to a larger and more significant operation,” he was quoted as saying.

The Hamas resistance movement has said it will only release the remaining 59 captives, 24 of whom are believed to be alive, in exchange for the release of Palestinian detainees, a lasting ceasefire and a full "Israeli" withdrawal.

Separately, the IOF ordered Palestinians living in the northern areas of Beit Hanoun and Sheikh Zayed to evacuate a large-scale planned onslaught.

The United Nations has warned that “Israel's” expanding evacuation orders across Gaza are resulting in the “forcible transfer” of people into ever-shrinking areas.

Aid agencies estimate that the vast majority of Gaza's 2.4 million residents have been displaced at least once since the war began in October 2023.

Gaza rescue teams and medics said “Israeli” airstrikes had claimed lives of at least 59 people since dawn Thursday.

Six members of one family were martyred when an airstrike leveled their home in northern Gaza City. A relative said the strike happened as the family was sleeping.

Nine people were martyred and several wounded in another strike on a former police station in the Jabalia area of northern Gaza.

In another deadly attack, the bodies of at least a dozen people were recovered after the Hajj Ali family home, also in Jabalia, was struck, the civil defense said.

Medics and the civil defense agency reported that another 26 people were martyred in strikes across the territory.