Netanyahu, we will not leave: a challenge in Gaza City with Israel offered the planned aid sites for the displaced.

 

• Israel has ordered all residents of Gaza City to leave, while its forces are preparing to control the northern Gaza Strip.
• The Israeli air strikes continued to destroy the residential towers, and the army says it now controls 40% of the city, while the ground forces are preparing to fight what Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu described as a "last important stronghold" Hamas.
• Netanyahu stated this week that 100,000 people left the city, but up to one million people still live in - many of them in tents or shelters. Many of them say they will not leave - or they cannot.
• After an air strike hit a residential tower near his home today, Ammar Sugar called on the Hamas negotiators to attend and negotiate from a tent, and not from air -conditioned rooms in Qatar - and insisted that he would remain in the city.
• "Whether you like it or not, Netanyahu, we will not leave," he said to a reliable, independent journalist working in BBC. "Go and deal with Hamas, go and kill them. We are not responsible. Even if we are buried here, we will not leave. This is my land."
• Wael Shaaban, who also lives near the tower that was targeted today, said they gave a 15 -minute flight before the strike.
• When we returned, tents, flour and everything disappeared. Nothing remains. All this to pressure us to leave south, but we have no money to go. We do not even have the price of the flour for food. The cost of transportation to the south is 1500 shekels.
• The Israeli army informed the residents of Gaza City that there is a lot of shelter, food and water in the so -called humanitarian areas located to the south.
• But relief organizations say that the areas to which they are sent are very crowded, and lack food and medical resources. The International Committee of the Red Cross confirmed that there is no place in Gaza being able to absorb this large number of people, describing the collective evacuation plan as "useless" and "incomprehensible".
• The Israeli army is currently constructing a new location to distribute aid near Rafah, 30 km (18 miles) south. It is also announced that it will provide thousands of additional tents, and a new water pipeline will be established from Egypt.
• The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) traveled to the area, as part of a military mission, to see the new site. This is the first time that the British Broadcasting Corporation has been allowed to enter Gaza since December 2023.
• Military escorts are presented at the estimation of Israel, and they are subject to severe control and do not allow the Palestinians or areas not subject to Israeli military control - but it is currently the only way for the BBC journalists to enter Gaza at all.
• Israel does not allow news organizations, including the BBC, does not allow BBC to enter Gaza to cover events independently.
• Rafah is a reminder of what happened when the Israeli Prime Minister sent his forces to the city to crush the "last stronghold" of Hamas.
• While driving the newly paved military road along the Gaza border with Egypt, we passed the remains of the devastating old border crossing, as the roof of one of the buildings was cracked and collapsed on the ground.
• Along the way, known as the Philadelphia Corridor, there are separate piles of construction and scattered minerals indicating the place where every home or farm building was standing at some point.
• The city of Rafah itself, near the new aid site, was almost raised to the ground in a barren desert. Static and silent, and its features have been wiped out; There are only a few punched buildings among the piles of rubble scattered along a kilometer across the sand.
• It was easy to monitor the new dirt hills and the explosive concrete blocks that rise from the middle of the landscapes filled with kicks behind it, near the Sultan's Tel.
• A short drive from the Karam Abu Salem Al -Raisi crossing, the angle of the humanitarian area can be seen, where many displaced people will resort to the length of the coast.
• "The main idea is a safe and fast path, the shortest possible distance for trucks and arrivals. We guarantee that no looting occurs," said the Israeli military spokesman, Lieutenant -Colonel Nadaf Shoshani.
• We were taken to two separate areas, each with a width of about 100 meters (328 feet), where the Israeli forces said that the discharge and distribution process can be carried out in a continuous episode.
• Inside one of the surrounding walls, two American trucks were already dependent on the sand.
• Israel says that the new aid distribution sites will be delivered to the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, which is supported by Israel in the coming days, and security will be provided here - as is the case in other GHF sites - by private American security forces, while securing the Israeli forces to the surrounding area.
• The United Nations says more than 1,100 people were killed while trying to get aid from the Global Relief Fund sites since it started its work in May.
• Lieutenant -Colonel Shoshani said that many lessons had been learned about how to create sites.
• You can see sandy barriers and concrete walls, which completely shows the place to go to, and ensures that people do not approach the forces and engage in a dangerous situation, he said. He added: "The important thing is their proximity - a very short distance on foot from the whereabouts of people. This facilitates the matter, and is also enhancing safety."
• But some of those who are now asked to leave Gaza City say that it will not be safer anywhere, after repeated Israeli strikes on targets in the shelters, tents and allocated humanitarian areas.
• This is Hamas's work style, Lieutenant -Colonel Shoshani said. "She says: No, don't go, you are our shields! Don't move south!"
• A year ago, we carried out a similar operation [in Rafah] and she was successful, he said. "Civilians managed to escape from the fire, and killed the largest possible number of Hamas terrorists, and this is what we seek to achieve in Gaza City."
• The residents of Rafah were evacuated before the start of the land operation in May 2024 - "temporarily", the army said - to the displacement areas held along the coast. The area they left is still under full military control.
• But the evacuation of Gaza City - and the fight against Hamas in its tunnels and streets - will be a more difficult and more dangerous task.
• Hamas fighters are increasingly resorting to rebellion methods and armed gang attacks. Earlier this week, four Israeli soldiers were killed in an attack on the outskirts of Gaza City.
• At the same time, Israeli leaders are facing severe pressure at home by the hostages of the hostages, who say that the plans aimed at seizing the city constitute a death sentence for their neighborhood relatives held there.
• Benjamin Netanyahu - who was not affected by criticism at home - had previously boasted about his determination to confront the international opposition, and proceed with his attack on Rafah.
• And now, with the receding of the possibilities of reaching a ceasefire agreement, and the presence of up to one million Gaza residents who are exhausted in the fire line, he tells his critics that another attack between him and the victory over Hamas.