About 1 million people face being displaced again or risk staying as bombing worsens despite international outrage
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The Israeli military has issued an evacuation order covering the entirety of Gaza City for the first time during the current round of fighting, ahead of a planned offensive to take over and occupy the city.
The order on Tuesday caused a scramble in the densely populated city and placed the fate of its 1 million residents in limbo, as they decided whether to be displaced once again or stay amid intensifying Israeli bombing.
Humanitarians have repeatedly warned that the consequences of an offensive on Gaza City C which is in the grips of famine C would be dire for its residents and the strip as a whole. On Tuesday, six more Palestinians died from hunger, bringing the total number of people who have starved to death in Gaza to 399.
I say to the residents of Gaza, take this opportunity and listen to me carefully: you have been warned C get out of there! the Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu , said. Israel describes Gaza City as Hamass last stronghold.
The Israeli military has for weeks urged residents to go to al-Mawasi in southern Gaza , which it has designated as a humanitarian zone that contains increased services. Despite the campaign to displace the citys residents, only a small proportion C about 50,000 people C of its 1 million residents have left.
Israels planned offensive has garnered a wave of international criticism, with much of the international community urging an immediate ceasefire. On Sunday, the Danish foreign minister, Lars L03kke Rasmussen, called on Israel to change course on its Gaza City invasion, while standing next to his Israeli counterpart in Jerusalem.
Aid groups have said that the area does not have the capacity nor services to absorb the renewed wave of displacement and urged Israel to stop its planned assault on Gaza City. Residents have also been skeptical of Israels promise of a safe zone, as it continued to bomb al-Mawasi as recently as last week.
The UN has said that it can cost more than $1,000 to move to southern Gaza, an unimaginable price tag for most of Gazas residents. Southern Gaza is already packed with people who have already been displaced several times before.
Nonetheless, some residents said they felt they had little choice left but to flee before the Israeli invasion.
Despite the bombardment in the past week, I have resisted leaving, but now I will go to be with my daughter, Um Mohammad, a 55-year-old mother of six, told Reuters.
The Israeli military has in recent days intensified its strikes on Gaza City, with Netanyahu saying that it had destroyed 50 terror towers in the city, which he said Hamas was using. Israeli strikes and fire killed at least 83 people in the past 24 hours, according to the Palestinian ministry of health. More were left without homes as a result of the strikes on the towers.
The Israeli defence minister, Israel Katz, said that the bombing of the towers was only the introduction of the invasion, and vowed a mighty hurricane if Hamas did not free hostages and surrender.
Netanyahu also said that Israeli forces were massing for a ground manoeuvre into Gaza City, but the invasion had not yet started as of Tuesday.
Hamas was reportedly considering a new US-proposed ceasefire , which Israel had accepted, the Israeli foreign minister, Gideon Saar, said on Monday. The discussions were the first sign of progress on ceasefire negotiations in a month, after Israel did not respond to Hamass acceptance of a previous deal.
Israel is insisting that Hamas completely disarm and return the remaining hostages it still holds. Hamas has said it will not lay down its arms unless an independent Palestinian state is established.
At least 64,522 Palestinians have been killed in Israels offensive in Gaza over the last 23 months. Israel launched the war in Gaza after Hamas-led militants killed about 1,200 people and took 251 hostages.
尽管国际社会强烈谴责，但随着轰炸加剧，约100万人或将再度流离失所，亦或被迫滞留险境。
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以色列军方在本轮冲突中首次发布覆盖加沙城全境的撤离令，计划对该城发起进攻并实施占领。
周二发布的命令在这座人口稠密的城市引发慌乱，使100万居民的命运悬而未决——他们不得不在以色列愈演愈烈的轰炸中做出抉择：是再度流离失所，还是继续留守。
人道主义组织多次警告称，对加沙城（该地区正深陷饥荒）发动进攻的后果，对当地居民乃至整个加沙地带都将是灾难性的。周二，又有6名巴勒斯坦人死于饥饿，使得加沙地带饿死总人数上升至399人。
以色列总理本雅明·内塔尼亚胡表示：“我要对加沙地带的居民说，抓住这个机会，仔细听好：你们已被警告——立即撤离该地区！”以色列将加沙城描述为哈马斯的最后据点。
以色列军方数周来一直敦促居民前往加沙南部的马瓦西地区，该地区被以方划定为增设服务设施的人道主义区。尽管开展了疏散城市居民的行动，但其百万人口中仅有约5万人离开。
以色列计划中的军事行动引发国际社会广泛批评，多国敦促立即停火。周日，丹麦外交大臣拉斯穆森（Lars L03kke Rasmussen）在耶路撒冷与以色列外长并肩而立时，呼吁以方改变进攻加沙城的行动方向。
援助组织表示，该地区既不具备接纳新一轮流离失所浪潮的能力，也缺乏相关服务设施，并敦促以色列停止对加沙城的计划性进攻。居民们对以色列承诺设立安全区也持怀疑态度，因为以军直至上周仍在持续轰炸马瓦西地区。
联合国表示，搬迁至加沙南部的费用可能超过1000美元，这对大多数加沙居民来说是难以想象的天价。而加沙南部早已挤满了此前多次流离失所的民众。
尽管如此，一些居民表示，在以色列军队入侵前，他们几乎别无选择，只能逃离。
55岁的六孩母亲乌姆·穆罕默德对路透社表示：‘尽管过去一周遭受轰炸，我一直坚持不离开，但现在我要去和女儿团聚了。’
以色列军方近日加强了对加沙城的空袭，内塔尼亚胡称以军已摧毁该市50座被哈马斯使用的“恐怖分子大楼”。巴勒斯坦卫生部表示，过去24小时内以军空袭和炮火造成至少83人死亡。针对这些建筑的袭击还导致更多人无家可归。
以色列国防部长伊斯雷尔·卡茨表示，对高楼的轰炸仅是此次入侵行动的“序幕”，并誓言如果哈马斯不释放人质并投降，将发动“强力飓风”般的打击。
内塔尼亚胡还表示，以色列军队正在集结，准备对加沙城展开地面行动，但截至周二，入侵尚未开始。
以色列外交部长吉迪恩·萨尔周一表示，哈马斯正在考虑美国提出的一项新停火协议，该协议已获以色列同意。这是一个月以来停火谈判首次出现进展迹象，此前以色列未对哈马斯接受上一份协议作出回应。
以色列坚持要求哈马斯彻底解除武装并释放其仍扣押的剩余人质。哈马斯则表示，除非建立独立的巴勒斯坦国，否则不会放下武器。
过去23个月中，以色列在加沙的军事行动已造成至少64,522名巴勒斯坦人死亡。此次战争爆发前，哈马斯领导的武装分子杀害了约1,200人并劫持251名人质。
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