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Tue 20 May 2025 1:00 pm - Jerusalem Time

Details of an Israeli plan to evacuate the northern Gaza Strip have been revealed.

Israel is attempting to implement a plan to depopulate the northern Gaza Strip by exploiting the distribution of food aid, despite previous plans to force the entire population of the northern Gaza Strip to flee southward since the beginning of the war on Gaza.


The Israeli army is currently setting up four centers to distribute humanitarian aid – food and medicine.


According to the Israeli plan, one of these centers will be established south of the Salah al-Din (Netzarim) axis in the central Gaza Strip, so that residents of the northern Gaza Strip will not have to travel to the southern Gaza Strip, where three other aid distribution centers are already established.


Israeli Army Radio reported on Tuesday that the economic plan stipulates that all residents of the northern Gaza Strip who are heading to the aid distribution center south of the Salah al-Din axis will not be allowed to return to the northern Gaza Strip.


The radio described the plan as a "one-way ticket," which would effectively force residents to flee to areas in the southern Gaza Strip.


The radio added that in this way, Israel intends to accelerate the evacuation of Gazans from the northern Gaza Strip, and that it will be possible to completely empty the northern Gaza Strip of its population.


The radio station noted that throughout the war on Gaza, and at the height of the Israeli ground invasion of Gaza City and other areas in the northern Gaza Strip, "Israel never succeeded in completely emptying the northern area. Despite dozens of evacuation notices issued by the Israeli military to residents, 200,000-300,000 residents remained permanently in the northern Gaza Strip, refusing to move south of the Netzarim axis."


The belief in Israel now, according to the radio, is that this plan will leave Gazans no choice and will force them to flee south.


The radio quoted Israeli security sources today denying Israeli allegations made yesterday that Hamas members had seized five aid trucks entering the Gaza Strip.


Israeli security sources said that Hamas elements "did not seize five trucks that entered yesterday through the Kerem Shalom crossing, which were primarily loaded with food for children. The trucks reached their destinations, some of them to hospitals in the Gaza Strip and others to World Food Programme warehouses."


The same sources added that "Israeli military drones escorted the trucks, but there was no need to use them, as no cells were ever detected attempting to approach or loot the relief trucks."


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