from Mondoweiss
The first time that the residents of Gaza City got an evacuation order was in October 2023. The Israeli army had ordered the 1.1 million people living in northern Gaza to move south ahead of the Israeli ground invasion.
Following the return of hundreds of thousands of residents of the north to Gaza City after the temporary ceasefire earlier this year, the Israeli army is now issuing another evacuation order. On August 8, the Israeli Prime Minister’s Office stated the Israeli army was preparing to take control of the entire city. In other words, permanent occupation.
On August 13, the army confirmed that the plans were approved. The invasion is reportedly set to start on October 7, the day that would mark two years of genocide.
The memories of the fate awaiting residents who refuse to evacuate remain stark in people’s minds — mass killings and field executions, kidnappings and arrests, and indiscriminate wholesale destruction. Some families have started to look for new places outside of Gaza City in the central and southern parts of the Strip. Others are determined to stay, believing that Israel has the same plan for all of Gaza — and they are done following the army’s orders...
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