Israeli army presses for broader evacuation of northern Gaza

The Israeli military renewed Saturday (Oct. 12) orders for Palestinians in the northern Gaza Strip to leave their shelters.

In a post on X, formerly Twitter, Avichay Adraee, a spokesman for the Israeli Defense Forces told Gazans to evacuate to Muwasi, a packed area in the south of the Strip designated as a humanitarian zone.

For most of the past week, fighting with Palestinian militants centred in and around Jabaliya, in Gaza’s north,…