"Not leaving".. The people of Gaza City insist on staying and refuse to evacuate.

The Israeli occupation army has intensified pressure on the residents of Gaza City and the displaced people who have moved there from the northern Gaza Strip, forcing them to leave southward towards the Mawasi area west of Khan Younis under the pretext that it is a 'safe humanitarian zone.' The occupation army is using various means of killing, destruction, and psychological intimidation to drive more than a million Palestinians out of the city, who in turn are resisting its attempts to move from one place to another within its neighborhoods in rejection of the displacement plan.

The residents of Gaza insist on not repeating the experience of displacement that they endured for more than a year when the Israeli army initially asked them to head south at the beginning of the war on the Gaza Strip, only to be followed by killings there, before being allowed to return after the ceasefire agreement last January. The pressures are mounting, and the Israeli army has been implementing its announced plan to occupy Gaza City for weeks, despite taking actual steps to empty the eastern neighborhoods of the city and the northern Gaza governorate since April 11.

Al Jazeera Net has monitored the most prominent means used by the occupation army since mid-August to accelerate the pace of population displacement, which include: expanding its ground operation south of Gaza City and advancing towards the neighborhoods of Al-Zeitoun and Al-Sabra, rapidly destroying their buildings. Re-advancing towards the town of Jabalia and Al-Nazla, the last residential areas in the northern Gaza governorate, and intensifying airstrikes on them, as well as using explosive robots to destroy their buildings.