ISRAEL’S resumed attacks on Gaza – after a seven-day truce with Hamas ended – have entered its second day.

According to the Israel Defence Force (IDF), it hit more than 400 “Hamas targets” over the past day, using air strikes, tanks and navy gunships.

It included more than 50 attacks on Khan Younis and surrounding areas in the southern half of Gaza. The area is where thousands of civilians migrated from the north.

They were told to do so by the IDF with the added warning they could be identified as sympathisers for the “terrorist organisation” if they stayed put.

The message was delivered in leaflets marked with the IDF name and logo, and also sent via mobile phone audio messages across Gaza.

“Urgent warning, to residents of Gaza. Your presence north of Wadi Gaza puts your life in danger. Whoever chooses not to leave north Gaza to the south of Wadi Gaza might be identified as an accomplice in a terrorist organisation,” the leaflet said.

But even the south is not safe.

The IDF has now called on the civilians to evacuate from Khan Younis as it expands its military operations. It is urging them to move southwards towards Rafah, close to the border with Egypt.

Even the southmost is not safe.

Al Jazeera’s Tareq Abu Azzoum reported that a residential building in the Rafah district has been levelled with more than six Palestinians have been reported killed and a number of them injured. 

No place is safe in Gaza. Is there no way to stop Israel? – December 3, 2023.

* Hafiz Hassan reads The Malaysian Insight.

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