The Government Media Office in the Gaza Strip announced that one million Palestinians continue to steadfastly remain in Gaza and its northern areas, refusing forced displacement to the south, while around 190,000 others have been displaced under the weight of Israeli plans for permanent expulsion.
This was stated in a statement from the office yesterday, Tuesday, as the Israeli army intensified evacuation orders for many neighborhoods in Gaza City over the past weeks, as well as targeting towers and residential buildings in a policy that Palestinian officials say aims to force Palestinians to flee the city to southern areas of the strip.
On Tuesday, the Israeli army announced that it had begun a "ground invasion of Gaza City," but field evidence and local sources confirm that no ground incursion has occurred, and that it is only intensifying artillery and air bombardments and demolitions using explosive robots, to terrorize Palestinians and force them to flee as part of a genocide and expulsion war.
The office mentioned that more than one million Palestinians remain rooted in Gaza City and its northern areas, clinging to their land and homes, firmly rejecting displacement to the south, despite the brutality of the bombardment and the genocide being perpetrated by the Israeli occupation in the context of committing the crime of permanent forced displacement, which is contrary to all international laws and conventions.
It added that one million Palestinians continue to steadfastly remain in Gaza and its northern areas, refusing forced displacement to the south, while around 190,000 citizens have been displaced under the weight of permanent expulsion plans.
It pointed out that "the population of Gaza City and its northern areas exceeds 1.3 million people, including about 398,000 from the North Gaza Governorate, the majority of whom have been forcibly displaced to the west of the governorate, in addition to more than 914,000 from the Gaza Governorate, including nearly 350,000 who were forced to flee from the eastern neighborhoods of the city towards its center and west."
It clarified that government teams have observed an increase in the movement of forced displacement from Gaza City to the south over the past few days due to the brutal crimes of the occupation.
Conversely, a reverse movement of displacement has also been recorded, with more than 15,000 returning to their original areas within Gaza City by yesterday afternoon, after they had moved their furniture and belongings to secure them in the south, then returned to their city due to the lack of the most basic living conditions in the south.
According to the government office, the Mawasi area in Khan Younis and Rafah, which currently houses about 800,000 people and is falsely promoted by the occupation authorities as humanitarian and safe areas, has been subjected to more than 109 airstrikes and repeated bombardments that have resulted in over two thousand martyrs in successive massacres committed by the occupation army within the Mawasi area itself.
The office reported that these areas completely lack the basic necessities of life, with no hospitals, infrastructure, or essential services such as water, food, shelter, electricity, or education, making living there nearly impossible.
It stated that the area designated by Israel in its maps as "shelter" does not exceed 12% of the total area of the Gaza Strip, while the occupation is attempting to cram more than 1.7 million people into it, as part of a plan to establish "concentration camps" within a systematic policy of forced displacement, aimed at emptying northern Gaza and Gaza City of their inhabitants.
In this context, Hamas stated in a statement that the Israeli accusations against the movement of "using civilians as human shields" and preventing them from leaving Gaza City are blatant attempts at deception that express Israel's contempt for global public opinion, and its insistence on continuing to commit brutal massacres against innocent civilians, forcing them to flee with the aim of expelling them from the Gaza Strip.
On August 8, the Israeli government approved a plan proposed by Netanyahu to gradually reoccupy the Gaza Strip entirely, starting with Gaza City.
The army began its attack on the city on August 11, starting from the Zeitoun neighborhood (southeast), in an operation later dubbed "Gideon's Chariots 2," which included demolishing homes using explosive robots, artillery bombardment, random gunfire, and forced displacement.
With American support, Israel has been committing genocide in Gaza since October 7, 2023, resulting in 64,964 martyrs and 165,312 injured Palestinians, most of whom are children and women, and a famine that has killed 428 Palestinians, including 146 children.
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Remaining despite the displacement plans.. One million Palestinians refuse to leave the city of Gaza and its north.