On Sunday morning, the occupation army announced that it had issued a warning to around one million Palestinians in Gaza City, demanding their immediate evacuation in preparation for another escalation in the genocidal campaigns carried out by the occupation forces.
This warning comes at a critical time, as the occupation continues to destroy residential towers in Gaza, further aggravating the humanitarian situation in a city witnessing the rapid destruction of its neighbourhoods.
A statement from the occupation army called on Palestinians to leave their homes immediately, via the al-Rashid corridor towards the so-called “humanitarian zone” in al-Mawasi, in the south of the Strip.
This escalation reflects a systematic policy aimed at forcibly driving Palestinians to displacement in the southern areas of the Strip, where occupation forces continue to target areas alleged to be “safe”, even though they already host hundreds of thousands of displaced Palestinians and suffer from a severe shortage of basic services, including drinking water, thus worsening the humanitarian crisis.
Since the beginning of the war of extermination on 7 October 2023, air and ground strikes have claimed the lives of more than 64,000 Palestinians, most of them women and children. Statistics also indicate that more than 163,000 people have been injured, while hundreds of thousands have been displaced, some seeking refuge in the south of the Strip, which itself has not been spared from attacks.
This escalation is embodied in the systematic destruction of residential towers, increasing the number of Palestinian casualties and deepening their suffering, with many left homeless.
Such escalation is not limited to military attacks, but also includes a policy of pressure on civilians, attempting to force them to flee to other areas within the Strip, with the aim of achieving forced demographic changes.
What is happening in Gaza today is genocide in every sense of the word, where civilians are deliberately targeted with excessive force, an explicit violation of human rights principles and international law, foremost among them the Geneva Conventions, which prohibit the targeting of civilians during armed conflicts.
