Today, Wednesday, the Israeli army dropped thousands of leaflets on Gaza City urging its residents to evacuate to areas it designated as safe, while the city faces a fierce attack.
The leaflets addressed to “all those in Gaza City” specified in Arabic safe roads with arrows drawn on them indicating the exit routes and corridors from the city towards the south.
The army warned that "Gaza City will remain a dangerous combat zone," according to Agence France-Presse.
The Israeli leaflet, addressed “to all those in Gaza City,” stated that they could pass through the safe corridors “quickly and without inspection,” from Gaza City to the shelters in Deir al-Balah and al-Zawaida.
The Israeli army circular indicated that Tariq Bin Ziyad and Omar Al-Mukhtar Streets are considered “safe corridors” for crossing west to Al-Rashid (Al-Bahr) Street and from there south. While Al-Wahda and Khalil Al-Wazir Streets were considered safe passages to cross east to the Al-Zaytoun neighborhood and the city roundabout, and from there to Salah Al-Din Street to the south.
The publication added, "Gaza City will remain a dangerous combat zone."
Israel intensifies its attack in Gaza
This comes as Israeli forces intensified their attack in northern and central Gaza, today, Wednesday, hours after an air strike on a camp that Palestinian officials said killed more than 24 people, according to what Reuters reported.
Palestinian health sector officials said that the Israeli air strike hit the tents of displaced families outside a school in Abasan, east of Khan Yunis in southern Gaza, killing at least 29 people, most of them women and children.
The Israeli army said it was reviewing reports of civilian casualties, adding that the incident occurred when it bombed a Hamas fighter who participated in the October 7 attack on Israel with “precision munitions,” which sparked the Israeli attack on Gaza.
Today, Israeli forces deepened their incursion into two areas of Gaza City.
Residents said that soldiers conducted house-to-house searches in some areas, and Israeli tanks bombed a number of homes.
Residents said that Israeli forces organized patrols on the main road leading to the coast, and snipers took control of the roofs of some tall buildings that are still standing, and tanks were stationed inside the headquarters of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA).
The Israeli army said that its forces are continuing their operations in Gaza City against Hamas and Islamic Jihad militants, who the Israeli army claimed are “active from within UNRWA facilities and using them as a base to launch attacks.”
The army added, "After opening a specific corridor to facilitate the evacuation of civilians from the area, Israeli army forces carried out a strike targeting the building, eliminating terrorists in close-range combat, and found large quantities of weapons in the area."
The Palestinian Red Crescent said that it had received many distress calls from residents of Gaza City who were trapped in their homes, but its teams were unable to reach them due to the intense bombing.
He added in a statement, "Field news coming from Gaza Governorate indicates that the population's conditions are very tragic, and the occupation forces continue to target residential squares and are working to displace citizens from their places of residence and shelter centers."
The armed wings of Hamas and Islamic Jihad said that their fighters clashed with Israeli forces in the area with anti-tank missiles and mortar shells, and sometimes in close-range combat.
In the Nuseirat camp in central Gaza, medics said that 6 Palestinians, including children, were killed in an air strike on a house early today, while another air strike killed two people and wounded a number of others in Khan Yunis.
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