Israel opens a new temporary road from Gaza City, with a high number of dead people

The Israeli army said it opens an additional way for 48 hours that Palestinians can use to leave Gaza The city while it was escalating efforts on Wednesday to empty the city of civilians and face thousands of Hamas fighters.

Hundreds of thousands of people in the city and many have hesitated to follow Israel’s orders to move south due to the dangers along the road, terrible conditions, food shortages in the southern region and fear of permanent displacement.

“Even if we want to leave Gaza CityIs there any guarantee that we will be able to return? Will the war end? That is why I prefer to die here, in Sabra, in my neighborhood, Ahmed, a teacher, said by phone.

Local health authorities said that at least 50 people were killed by Israeli strikes and fire through the Gaza Strip on Wednesday, including 39 in Gaza City.

They said that the most recent deaths took the death of the Palestinian from the two -year conflict between Israel and last enthusiasm 65,000. Palestinian officials and rescue workers say that the real number is likely to be higher than that the remains of many people are trapped under the rubble of destroyed buildings.

Gaza’s health authorities also reported a drone attack on a children’s specialized hospital, which did not cause injuries but forced young patients and their families abroad.

Israel estimates about 400,000 people, or 40 percent of those who were in Gaza City on August 10 – when it announced plans to control – they already escaped. The Gaza Media Office says that 190,000 went to the south and moved 350,000 to the central and western regions of the city.

A day after the announcement of Israel Release From its ground attack to control the main urban center in Gaza, the tanks moved short distances towards the central and western areas of the city from three directions, but no significant progress was reported.

An Israeli official said that the military operations focused on making civilians go to the south and that the fighting will increase during the month or two.

The official said that Israel expects about 100,000 civilians to remain in the city, which will take months to capture it, and the operation can be suspended if a ceasefire with the Hamas armed group is reached.

The horizons of the ceasefire appear remotely after Israel attacked the Hamas political leaders in Doha last week, which angered Qatar, a participating mediator in the ceasefire talks.

Challenge the global criticism of the attack, including reprimand by the strong Israeli ally, the United States, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, that Israel will take place Hamas leaders anywhere.

The Hamas Ministry of Health said that the Israeli plane had shot down hand grenades on one floor of the Rantisi Children’s Hospital on Wednesday. No victims were reported, but the ministry said that about 40 families took their children away.

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“This hospital is the only specialized facility for children with cancer, kidney failure and other life-threatening cases-but even these children with serious diseases do not explode from uncompromising bombing,” Vicker Shiroot, the director of Gaza in charitable medical aid in the United Kingdom.

The Israeli army did not immediately respond to the request for comment.

In leaflets that fell on Gaza City, the army said that the Palestinians can use the newly reopened Salawdin road to escape south and that they had taken lunch on Friday to do so.

But the situation remained chaotic and dangerous for civilians, who were on foot, through a donkey cart or in vehicles in recent days.

A large part of Gaza City was placed early in the war in 2023, but about a million Palestinians returned to the house between the rubble. Forcing them to go out means that most of Gaza’s population is limited to overcrowded camps in the south, where the hunger crisis is revealed.

The United Nations, relief groups and foreign governments have condemned the offensive of Israel and the proposed collective displacement.

In a separate response to the Gaza conflict in general, the United Nations Investigation Committee concluded on Tuesday that Israel had committed Genocide In Gaza. Israel called the evaluation “a scandal” and “fake”.

The Israeli forces control the eastern suburbs of Gaza City, and they were bombing three areas in the southeastern coastal areas, north and northwest of the city, from which the tanks are pressed towards the center and the western regions.

Ahmed, a school teacher, said: “Gaza is eliminated. The thousand -year -old city is eliminated in front of the entire world of coward.”

In the Nuserat Refugee camp at the Enclave Center, an air strike was destroyed on Wednesday, prompting residents of the nearby buildings to escape in a state of panic.

Palestinian officials and the United Nations say there is no safe place, including in the southern region that Israel has identified as a “humanitarian region.” On Tuesday, an air strike killed five people in a car while leaving Gaza City to the south.