Israel-Hamas War : Israel Calls For Evacuation of 1.1 Million Palestinians In North Gaza; At Least 27 Americans Killed
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Israel has called for the evacuation of 1.1 million residents in north Gaza to move south within 24 hours, according to multiple reports quoting Stephane Dujarric, spokesman for the UN secretary-general.
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken offered reassurances of ongoing U.S. support to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, heading into a meeting in Tel Aviv, in the wake of bloody attacks perpetrated by Palestinian militant group Hamas against Israel over the weekend.
“We’re here, we’re not going anywhere,” Blinken told Netanyahu.
Separately, Palestine Liberation Organization Secretary-General Hussein al-Sheikh said on X that Blinken will convene with President Mahmoud Abbas of the Palestinian Authority on Friday.
The U.S. has firmly denounced the Hamas attacks and previously proposed a humanitarian corridor for civilians in the Gaza Strip.
The death toll meanwhile continues to mount in Israel and Gaza, as sirens blare and war wages. Israeli Minister of Energy and Infrastructure Israel Katz said Thursday that the Gaza siege will not be lifted until the country’s hostages, taken by Hamas, are returned home.
Israel has called for the evacuation of 1.1 million residents in north Gaza to move south in the next 24 hours, according to multiple media reports quoting Stephane Dujarric, spokesman for the UN secretary-general.
That’s about half the size of Gaza Strip’s population.
The move suggests that Israel could be moving to proceed with its ground offensive into the Palestinian enclave to pursue Hamas militants that the Jewish nation has pledged to wipe out. The Israeli Defence Force
According to the Associated Press, Dujarric said the order, delivered from Israel’s military to the U.N., was “impossible” without “devastating humanitarian consequences.”
North Korea has denied that its weapons were used in the terrorist attack on Israel by Hamas, Reuters reported.
Washington-based news site Radio Free Asia said earlier this week that a video showed a Hamas fighter using what looked to be a rocket launcher suspected to be manufactured in North Korea.
“The U.S. administration’s reptile press bodies and quasi-experts are spreading a groundless and false rumor that ‘north Korea’s weapons’ seemed to be used for the attack on Israel,” the North’s official KCNA news agency said, according to Reuters.
“It is nothing but a bid to shift the blame for the Middle East crisis caused by its wrong hegemonic policy onto a third country and thus evade the international criticism focused on the empire of evil,” it said.
A European regulator has said a formal request to X, formerly known as Twitter, has been sent to obtain information about the spread of illegal content and disinformation on the social media platform amid the conflict between Israel and Hamas.
The European commissioner for the internal market, Thierry Breton, said on X that the European Commission — the EU’s executive arm — is investigating whether X is complying with the Digital Services Act.
Breton sent a letter to X owner Elon Musk expressing concern about the spread of misinformation and “violent and terrorist” content on the service. He urged Musk to respond within 24 hours. Breton sent Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg a similar letter on Wednesday about disinformation on Facebook “to ensure that your systems are effective.”
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