The challenge in Gaza City, where Israel shows the planned BBC aid sites for evacuation

Israel has ordered all residents of Gaza City to leave, as its forces are preparing to capture the north from the Gaza Strip.

Israeli air strikes continued to destroy the towers of the horoscopes, and the army says it now has operational control over 40 % of the city, as the ground forces are preparing to fight what Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu described as an “last important stronghold” in Hamas.

Netanyahu said this week that 100,000 people left the city, but up to one million people still live there – many in tents or shelters. Many of them say that they will not leave – or they cannot -.

After hitting a tower block strike near his home today, Ammar Sukar called on the enthusiasm of the enthusiasm and negotiating from a tent, and not from air-conditioned rooms in Qatar-and he insisted that he will remain in the city.

“Whether you like it or not, Netanyahu, we will not leave,” BBC said to the BBC. “Go and deal with Hamas, go and kill them. We do not blame. Even if we are buried here, we do not leave. This is my land.”

Will Shaban, who also lives near the tower that was targeted today, said he was gave 15 minutes to flee before the strike.

“When we returned, tents, flour, everything is gone. Nothing is left. Everything we click on us to go south, but we have no money to go. We cannot even bear the flour to eat. Transfer to the south costs 1500 shekels.”

The Israeli army tells the residents of Gaza City that there is a lot of shelter, food and water in the so -called humanitarian areas in the south.

But relief organizations say that the areas that are already sent to them are largely crowded, and lack food and medical. The ICRC (ICRC) said anywhere in Gaza at the present time, which can currently absorb this large movement of people, describing the collective evacuation plan as “unable” and “incomprehensible”.

The Israeli army is currently building a new location to distribute aid near Rafa, 30 km (18 miles) to the south. She also says she also provides thousands of additional tents, and put a new water pipeline from Egypt.

BBC traveled to the area, as part of military inclusion, to see the new site. This is the first time that the British Broadcasting Corporation has been allowed to enter Gaza at all since December 2023.

Military inclusion is presented according to Israel’s estimate, and they are not controlled significantly and no access to Palestinians or areas that are not under Israeli military control – but it is currently the only way for the BBC journalist to enter Gaza at all.

Israel does not allow news organizations, including BBC, in Gaza to report independently.

Rafah is a reminder of what happened the last time that the Prime Minister of Israel sent his forces to a city to crush the “last stronghold” of Hamas.

While leading the newly paved military road along the Gaza border with Egypt, we pass the shattered remains at the ancient border crossing, the roof of one building is cracked and thought on the ground.

Moreover along the road, known as the Philadelphi Corridor, separate piles of construction and divided minerals that were set where every home or farm building stands.

The city of Rafah itself, near the new aid site, has been flattened in the desert. She is still silent, erasing her life; Only a few of the structures that hurried the Box from the sea of ​​ruins transferred to the kilometers across the sand.

It was easy to discover the hills of the new Earth and the concrete explosion blocks that rise from the landscapes filled with kicks behind it, near Tel Soltan.

A short drive away from the main Kerem shalom crossing point, the angle of the human area in Maousy, where many displaced people refer to the coast.

“The whole idea is a safe and fast path,” said Israeli military spokesman, spokesman for Lieutenant Colonel Nadaf Shoshani. “The shortest possible distance for trucks and for people coming. We can guarantee 0 % looting.”

Two separate areas have been shown, where about 100 meters (328 feet) can be made, as Israeli forces said that unloading and distribution can be implemented in a continuous episode.

Inside one ocean wall, two American trucks were already dependent on the sand.

Israel says that the new aid distribution sites will be delivered to the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) in the coming days, and security here – as is the case in other GHF sites – will be provided by the US Special Security Forces, while securing the Israeli forces around it.

But the United Nations says more than 1,100 people have been killed in an attempt to reach aid from GHF sites since they started working in May.

Lieutenant Colonel Shoshani said many lessons have learned how to create sites.

“You can see the sandy and concrete walls, which makes it very clear the place where you are supposed to go, and make sure that the forces are not approaching and participate in a dangerous situation,” he said. “What is important (also) is their proximity – a very short distance very close to the whereabouts of people. This makes it easier, but also safer.”

But some of those who are now required to leave Gaza City say that it will not be safer elsewhere, after the repeated Israeli strikes on the targets in the shelters, tents and specific humanitarian areas.

“This is Hamas Mo (the method of operation),” said Lieutenant Colonel Shoshani. “He says: No, don’t go, you are our shields! Don’t move south!”

“A year ago, we performed a similar operation (in his head) that was successful,” he said. “Civilians were able to get out of the fire line and the maximum death of terrorists in Hamas, and this is what we want to achieve in Gaza City.”

Rafah residents were evacuated before the ground operation there in May 2024 – “temporarily” the army – to the displacement areas that were held along the coast. The area they left behind is still under full military control.

But the evacuation of Gaza City – and the fight against Hamas in its tunnels and streets – will be a more difficult and more dangerous task.

Hamas fighters are increasingly resorting to rebellion tactics and guerrilla attacks. Earlier this week, four Israeli soldiers were killed in an attack on the outskirts of Gaza City.

Meanwhile, Israeli leaders are under severe pressure at home from hostages, who say that plans to take the city is the death penalty for their living relatives.

Benjamin Netanyahu – who was not affected by criticism at home – has already boasted about his design in staring at the international opposition, and pressing his attack on his Rafah.

Now, with the ceasefire deal, and up to one million exhausted conquests in the fire line, his critics tell that another attack between him and the victory over Hamas.

Participated in additional reports by Morgan Jishult Minard and Dave Ball