Geopolitics & Foreign Policy
Hamas tells Gaza residents to stay home as Israel’s ground offensive looms.
On Friday, mosques urged Gaza Strip residents to stay home after the Israeli military ordered all civilians, or more than a million people, to migrate south in anticipation of an impending ground operation that might result in significant deaths.
Any invasion might play a crucial role in the conflict between the Israeli military and the Palestinian terrorist organization Hamas, which unleashed the deadliest attack on the nation since the 1973 Arab-Israeli war on Saturday.
Israel has already carried out the largest airstrikes on Gaza and has gathered tanks and 300,000 reservists close to the border.
A ground invasion threat has evoked memories of the Nakba, an Arabic word for calamity that alludes to the 1948 founding of Israel’s conflict that resulted in their widespread expulsion.
Israeli relocating order was referred to as an “attempt to push the Palestinian people of Gaza into Nakba” by Gaza expert Talal Okal.
“Israel is repeating this in front of the world and live cameras today, just like they did in 1948 when they forced people out of historical Palestine by dropping barrels of explosives on their heads,” Okal told Reuters.
In their strike on Saturday, Hamas militants murdered more than 1,300 Israelis. Gazan officials say more than 1,400 Palestinians have died due to Israeli airstrikes.
Both sides are waging psychological warfare as a ground assault seems near.
“Civilians of Gaza City, evacuate south for your own safety and the safety of your families and distance yourself from Hamas terrorists who are using you as human shields,” stated the military.
“Hamas terrorists are hiding in Gaza City inside tunnels underneath houses and inside buildings populated with innocent Gazan civilians.”
Renowned Gaza According to Hamas, an Israeli airstrike in Gaza resulted in the death of Hamas cleric Wael Al-Zard. Recently, during border protests along the barrier, his son was slain.
A guy entered Shifa Hospital, the biggest of Gaza’s 13 public hospitals, to check on hundreds of family members and friends who had been transported from the location of a home Israel had struck in the Beach refugee camp.
“I lived, but I have no idea how. The reason is that I need to convey to the adversaries—America, Europe, and the rest of the world—that the Palestinian people will not be subdued.
“They speculate that there may be another eviction or that we might go to Egypt. Nonsense,” he said before entering the mortuary to look for his deceased family.
The spokesman for the Hamas Interior Ministry, Eyad Al-Bozom, asked Arabs worldwide to assist the people of Gaza, especially in nations that share borders with Israel.
“We advise the residents of Gaza City and northern Gaza to remain in their homes and places of business. He claimed that the occupation is trying to drive us from our country once more by carrying out massacres of the inhabitants.
“The 1948 eviction will not take occur. At a press conference at Gaza City’s Shifa hospital, Bozom declared, “We will die, but we will not leave.”
Leaving Gaza, which is small and highly populated, would be challenging. In addition to the constant airstrikes, the Israeli force has already demolished highways, making escape practically impossible.