A boy looks on as he sits atop cushions and mattresses loaded in the back of an animal-drawn cart led by a man as they evacuate from Sheikh Zayed in the northern Gaza Strip [AFP]
“So-called evacuation orders that forcibly displace suffering people again and again, the closure of crossings that deny aid to families and children facing famine, relentless bombardments and mass graves that reveal evidence of torture, all demonstrate a certain contempt for international law and the protections it extends to vulnerable populations.”
Global Centre for the Responsibility to Protect (GCR2P)
Displaced Palestinians make their way as they flee Jabalia after the Israeli military called on residents to evacuate in the northern Gaza Strip. REUTERS/Dawoud Abu Alkas
Vovchansk resident Hanna, 74-year-old holds a covered cage with a parrot as she sits inside an evacuation bus to Kharkiv due to Russian military strikes near the frontline town of Vovchansk, in Kharkiv region, Ukraine. REUTERS/Valentyn Ogirenko
Palestinians ride on a vehicle as they flee Rafah after Israeli forces launched a ground and air operation in the eastern part of the southern Gaza City in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip. REUTERS/Mohammed Salem
If you read nothing more on Israel's genocide... read this:
"Israel’s Willing Executioners"
"Hundreds of thousands of people are being forced to flee, once again, after more than half of Gaza's population took sanctuary in the border town of Rafah. This is part of Israel's sadistic playbook.
"Run for your lives..from Rafah the way you ran from Gaza City..Jabalia..Deir al-Balah..Beit Hanoun..Bani Suheila..Khan Yunis. Run or we will kill you."
"Run for your lives. Again and again and again. Pack up the pathetic few belongings you have left. Blankets. A couple of pots. Some clothes. We don’t care how exhausted you are, how hungry you are, how terrified you are, how sick you are, how old, or how young you are. Run. Run. Run. And when you run in terror to one part of Gaza we will make you turn around and run to another. Trapped in a labyrinth of death. Back and forth."
Palestinians ride on a vehicle as they flee Rafah after Israeli forces launched a ground and air operation in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip, May 13. REUTERS/Mohammed Salem
But the question is where will the Palestinians go?
Palestinians have begun leaving parts of eastern Rafah in Gaza after Israel urged 100,000 people to move towards an expanded "humanitarian zone".
The evacuation comes ahead of an expected offensive on the city, where more than 1.4 million people are sheltering.
A Palestinian woman who was forced to flee Jabalia after the Israeli military called on residents to evacuate, in Gaza City in northern Gaza [Mahmoud Issa/Reuters]
A displaced Palestinian woman and her child, who fled Jabalia after the Israeli military called on residents to evacuate, make their way towards Gaza City [Mahmoud Issa/Reuters]
Israel sent tanks into eastern Jabalia in the northern Gaza Strip early on Sunday, after a night of heavy aerial and ground bombardments, killing 19 people and wounding dozens of others, health officials said.
After her house in Vovchansk was destroyed in a Russian strike that killed her husband, Tetiana, 82, evacuates with her daughter. (AP: Evgeniy Maloletka)
Palestinians travel in an animal-drawn cart as they flee Rafah after Israeli forces launched a ground and air operation in the eastern part of the southern Gaza city, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and Hamas, in the southern Gaza Strip May 9, 2024. REUTERS/Mohammed Salem
The area that Israeli officials have told Palestinians to move to is mainly sand dunes and has no toilets, water points, drainage, shelter or health facilities.
Palestinians evacuate after Israeli forces launch a ground and air operation in the eastern part of Rafah, southern Gaza, on May 7 [Hatem Khaled/Reuters]