TEL AVIV: The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) has presented to the war cabinet a plan for the evacuation of Palestinian civilians from combat zo...
TEL AVIV: The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) has presented to the war cabinet a plan for the evacuation of Palestinian civilians from combat zones in the Gaza Strip, the office of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said.
The army "presented the war cabinet with a plan for evacuating the population from the areas of fighting in the Gaza Strip, with the upcoming operational plan," it said in a statement. Additionally, the cabinet approved the provision of humanitarian aid to the embattled enclave "in a way that will prevent the looting that occurred in the north of the Gaza Strip and other areas," the prime minister’s office said.
On February 24, Netanyahu said that he will discuss with the government the plan of action in the city of Rafah in the south of the Gaza Strip, including the evacuation of civilians from the city.
On February 9, Netanyahu instructed the country’s military to work out a plan to evacuate civilians from Rafah on the Gaza Strip's border with Egypt and exterminate Hamas battalions still entrenched in the city.
Tensions flared up again in the Middle East on October 7, 2023, when militants from the Gaza-based Palestinian radical group Hamas staged a surprise incursion into Israeli territory from the Gaza Strip. Hamas described its attack as a response to the aggressive actions of Israeli authorities against the Al-Aqsa Mosque on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem’s Old City. In response, Israel has declared a state of war readiness; announced a total blockade of the Gaza Strip, home to 2.3 million Palestinians; and began delivering air strikes on the enclave and certain parts of Lebanon and Syria. Clashes are underway in the West Bank as well.
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