Around 500,000 Israelis have been internally displaced since the deadly Hamas attacks on October 7, an Israeli army spokesman said during a press conference on Tuesday.
“About half a million Israelis are displaced” within Israel’s borders. “We evacuated all of southern Israel, all places near the Gaza Strip, following government directives. (…) We did the same in the north, where 20 places near the border were evacuated,” said Jonathan Conricus .
“Most of these people left on their own initiative and now the city of Sderot” in the south is being evacuated, he said. “We do not want civilians near combat zones. We want, above all, to protect our citizens from the devastating effects of war,” she added.
“The displaced took refuge with relatives in the center of the country, in safer areas. (…) This is a significant population displacement in Israel, which is not talked about much. The situation in Gaza is worse,” he he admitted.
Since the deadly attacks by the Palestinian Islamist movement that killed 1,400 people in Israel, the army has bombed the Gaza Strip and prepared a ground offensive, causing large population displacements in this small enclave that is under land, air and sea control. Israeli for 15 years. years.
According to the United Nations, over the course of a week, one million people fled the northern Gaza Strip to the south.
Reprisal attacks carried out since October 9 have killed at least 2,750 people, mostly Palestinian civilians, including hundreds of children, according to local Palestinian authorities.
Source: TSF
