Israel’s military has informed the United Nations that the entire population of northern Gaza should relocate to the southern half of the territory within 24 hours, the U.N. spokesman, Stéphane Dujarric, said late on Thursday night, adding that such a movement — involving over one million people — would lead to “devastating humanitarian consequences.”

“The same order applied to all U.N. staff and those sheltered in U.N. facilities — including schools, health centers and clinics,” Mr. Dujarric said.

The U.N. was told that the marker dividing the north from south was Wadi Gaza, the statement said.

The U.N. Security Council is scheduled to hold an emergency meeting on Friday afternoon in a closed consultation format

  • Potato_in_my_anus
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    The chaos with the with the evacuations is that everybody’s driving in the same direction, and in Palestine, people don’t have any vehicles.

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      1million+ people on foot in a war zone all heading in one direction on war torn infrastructure will be a disaster even without cars.

      Don’t forget that the shelling has already been going on for awhile now.

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      They do actually! A journalist was talking about it on Radio-Canada earlier today, he’s visited twice since 2017 (having come back a couple of weeks ago) and noted the contrast between fairly recent cars and horse carts using the same streets!

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      True… probably actually a benefit that they don’t have cars as they’re less efficient than just walking. But for those who physically aren’t able to walk for hours straight (depending on how far they need to go), some alternative mobility is needed.