"Le monde nous regarde nous faire massacrer": les Palestiniens fuient l'assaut israélien sur Gaza-ville
On board tractors, carts or overloaded vans, sometimes even on foot, Gazans are streaming in a continuous stream along the main coastal road in the center of the Palestinian territory, fleeing Gaza City, in the north, where Israel is intensifying its assault.
"We were forcibly displaced by intense bombardment," said Saeb al-Mobayed, who came from the north of Gaza City. "Many buildings were destroyed," and "mosques near places sheltering displaced people were also targeted, forcing us to leave," he added.
The displaced people of this new exodus of populations in the Gaza Strip, ravaged by nearly two years of war, leave behind a landscape of ruins, where clouds of dust rise above mountains of rubble and buildings destroyed by Israeli bombs.
The army on Tuesday called on all residents of Gaza City, the territory's main urban center, to immediately leave for the south, warning that it would strike hard at the Palestinian movement Hamas there.
The UN estimates that about one million people live in and around the city.
Along the road, vehicles, often battered and crammed with passengers, pass by, swamped with piles of furniture, tables, chairs, and mattresses. Others have to make do with pushing heavy carts or bicycles by hand.
"Let them open the border crossings, end the war, and allow life to return to normal, as it was before. That's enough," urges Ahmed Shamlakh, one of the displaced.
The Israeli army says these Gazans will find food, tents and medicine in an area it describes as "humanitarian" in Al-Mawasi, in the south.
But according to the spokesman for the Gaza Civil Defense, Mahmoud Bassal, in the center and south of the territory there is "no shelter, no space to set up tents, no food and no drinking water."
And in nearly two years of war, the army has often bombed areas declared "humanitarian" in the Gaza Strip, claiming to be targeting Hamas fighters there.
Almost the entire population of Gaza has been displaced at least once since the start of the Israeli offensive, launched in retaliation for an attack by the Palestinian Islamist movement in Israel on October 7, 2023.
In Gaza City, where military planes have dropped hundreds of leaflets ordering residents to evacuate, Khaled Khuwaiter is exhausted.
"I ask Israel: where are we supposed to go?" asks the 36-year-old, who has already had to flee his bombed neighborhood of Zeitoun.
"The bombings are everywhere, people are dying everywhere. We have nothing left but God, since the world watches us being massacred and does nothing."
"The evacuation is a humiliation," says Mirvat Abu Muammar, 30, who has also been displaced with her husband and three children, and says she lacks everything. She and her family will "wait and see." "For two years, we haven't had a moment of respite or sleep. Just death, destruction, and despair."
The October 7 attack resulted in the deaths of 1,219 people on the Israeli side, the majority of them civilians, according to an AFP tally based on official data.
According to the army, 47 captives remain in Gaza, including 25 presumed dead, out of a total of 251 people abducted that day.
The Israeli offensive has left at least 64,605 dead in Gaza, according to the Hamas Health Ministry, whose figures are considered reliable by the UN.
AFP
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