GAZA - Israel has announced preparations to forcibly evacuate Palestinians from “combat zones” to southern Gaza from today. At least 25 Palestinians, including 12 aid seekers, were killed by Israeli attacks across Gaza on Saturday.
The army’s Arabic-language spokesperson Avichay Adraee said the move would be based on directives from the “political level”.
“The provision of tents and shelter equipment for the residents of the sector will be renewed. The equipment will be transported through the Kerem Shalom [Karem Abu Salem] crossing by the United Nations and international relief organisations after undergoing thorough inspection by personnel from the Land Crossings Authority affiliated with the Ministry of Defense,” Adraee wrote on X.
The announcement comes a week after the government approved controversial plans to seize Gaza City.
Israeli forces have deployed in a number of villages and towns in the Ramallah and el-Bireh governorate in the occupied West Bank.
Local and security sources told Wafa that troops stormed the towns of Birzeit and Abu Shkheidam, the village of Burham, the town of Silwad to the east, the town of Kobar and the village of Kafr Ein.
At least three people have been killed and others injured in Israeli attacks on Gaza City, Wafa reports.
An Israeli drone targeted a group of people in the Asqaula area of the Zeitoun neighbourhood in eastern Gaza City, killing two and wounding several others, the news agency said.
Another person was killed and three were injured when a house near the al-Alami Mosque on az-Zarqa Street, also in eastern Gaza City, was hit.
Footage on social media shows the devastating impact of an Israeli air strike on a residential property in the Zeitoun neighbourhood in the east of Gaza City.
The footage, posted to Instagram and verified by Al Jazeera’s fact-checking agency, Sanad, shows the moment a multistorey building is destroyed by an Israeli bomb, creating a huge explosion and sending debris flying.
Zeitoun has come under a sustained assault from Israeli air strikes and artillery in recent days.