Palestinians are scrambling in Gaza City to flee the Israeli attack

Thousands of families are trying to escape from Gaza City, where the Israeli army confirms that they have started the ground operations that constitute part of their extensive assault aimed at occupying the city.

Lina Magrabi, 32, who is the mother of three children from the Sheikh Radwan neighborhood in the city that the BBC had resisted leaving her home – despite the danger – until she received a phone call from an Israeli officer who orders her to evacuate.

“I had to sell my jewelry to cover the cost of displacement,” she said. “It took ten hours to reach Khan Yunis, and we paid 3,500 shekels (735 pounds) to ride. The auto and truck line looked endless.”

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that a “strong operation” was launched in Gaza City, which he described as the last major stronghold in Hamas.

The Israeli army set the coastal road for Roshid as the only way allowed to civilians to use it for evacuation. Many describe extreme congestion, endless lists of cars and trucks, and long delay, with the families who were cut off on the side of the road while the air strikes continue in their sky.

Nafin, a 38 -year -old agent, a mother of five years, said that she had escaped south after Israeli warplanes dropped the evacuation publications in her neighborhood, although her husband refused to leave their house.

“I couldn’t take my furniture with me because I could not bear the cost of a large truck,” she explained. “He left everything behind the most difficult decision I made ever.”

The cost of displacement increased from the reach of most families. Residents said that renting a small truck now costs about 3000 shekels (630 pounds), while selling a tent to five people for about 4000 shekels (840 pounds). With most families deprived of income since the war began, some are forced to walk for miles or stay in their homes despite the risks.

Overnight to Tuesday, Israeli warplanes carried out a wave of heavy air strikes throughout Gaza City, with a concentrated shelling in the Central Daraj neighborhood, the refugee camp on the beach in the west, and Sheikh Radwan in the north.

Artillery fire, drone fire and a helicopter activity were attacked.

The Israel Defense Forces said it “is gradually transferred to Gaza City as part of the” next stage “of its attack.

She said that the Air Force and the Lands will be part of this next stage of the army operation, with the number of forces increasing day after day.

The population described the strikes overnight as “hell.”

Ghazi Aloul, a resident of the north of Gaza, told the BBC that he is now sleeping at the entrance to Al -Meshaar Hospital in Tal Al -Hawa, southwest of Gaza.

“I did not choose this,” he said. “I was forced to leave the house, where my family and I were raging for about a month after fleeing from the north.”

“The bombing was crazy for hours, and the army threatens to demolish many residential buildings in the area.”

Sami Abu Dalla, from the Daraj in the center of Gaza, described tonight as “very difficult.”

He said: “The entire residential blocs were settled over their residents, and many dead, missing or injured were left.”

He said that Israel was advancing on three fronts – and was accompanied by use Booby loaded vehicles, intense air strikes, heavy shelling. Meanwhile, Apache helicopter hovers on different parts of the city, and shoots constantly.

The Israeli attack, which was rising, comes at a time when the United Nations investigation committee issued a report saying Israel commits genocide against the Palestinians in Gaza – Israel categorically rejected the report.