#Israel told #Palestinians to evacuate to #SouthernGaza — BUT the #IsraeliMilitary stepped up air attacks there. Bombardment has killed thousands of civilians in the areas of the #GazaStrip that Israel has ordered them to move to. More than 11,800 people — 2/3rds are children, women & elderly — have been killed in #Gaza.
Fears that #Israel or international partners could pressure #Egypt into accepting millions of #Palestinians settling in the #Sinai have abounded for decades in #Cairo: #HosniMubarak strenuously denied reports in 2017 that he had cut a deal with #MargaretThatcher in 1983 to resettle Palestinians exiled in Lebanon in the peninsula, adding that #BenjaminNetanyahu, had also proposed the idea in 2010.
They say evacuation doesn’t make sense considering the relentless bombardment of #SouthernGaza, where #Israel has repeatedly urged the more than one million residents of northern #Gaza to seek refuge.