Carrying their bags, dozens of Palestinians walked the streets of Gaza city on Wednesday (November 8), headed south seeking refuge from Israeli air strikes and fierce ground fighting between Israeli troops and Hamas militants.
Thousands more were reported to have left in the four-hour window of opportunity announced by Israel, which has told residents to evacuate the area or risk being trapped in the violence.
However, the central and southern parts of the small, besieged Palestinian enclave, which is run by Hamas, were also under fire as the war between its Islamist Hamas rulers and Israel entered its second month.
Authorities said 10,569 people have now been killed, 40% of them children. The level of death and suffering is “hard to fathom,” U.N. health agency spokesperson Christian Lindmeier said in Geneva.
Israel struck at Gaza in response to a cross-border Hamas raid on southern Israel on Oct. 7 in which gunmen killed 1,400 people, mostly civilians, and took about 240 hostages, according to Israeli tallies.
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