Israel orders evacuation of Gaza neighborhood

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Israel has claimed that rockets have been fired at Israeli cities from the Shejaiya neighborhood in Gaza, and has ordered all citizens to evacuate ahead of an expected response.   #Israel #Gaza

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00:00Yes, actually, hundreds of people, hundreds of Palestinian residents from the Sheja'iyah neighborhood

00:06have been forced to flee their homes earlier today

00:10because of an Israeli warning, a clear warning to all of them, to those living in that neighborhood

00:17to leave immediately, which, because of what the Israeli army says in a statement,

00:22the rocket fire that has been reported from those areas to nearby Israeli towns.

00:30This is an Israeli norm, an Israeli habit.

00:33Every time there is a rocket fire, the Israeli army orders the population to leave immediately.

00:41This is related to the evacuation of those people.

00:45Other Israeli army actions in the territory,

00:48including the killing of two Palestinians in the central Gaza Strip refugee camp of Megazi earlier today

00:56when they hit, when an Israeli airstrike hit a tent that these people were taking shelter at

01:03in the camp to the west of the refugee camp.

01:06In the Nusairat refugee camp, in which there have been intensive and infrequent Israeli airstrikes and bombardments,

01:14there have been another, another killing of about three people have been reportedly killed

01:20in residential areas in the refugee camp.

01:24That is actually the situation for the central Gaza Strip, two refugee camps.

01:29Also, Al-Bureidj refugee camp nearby has been hit by artillery fire

01:34and a number of people have been reportedly wounded.

01:37To the north of the Gaza Strip, actually, there was a report about the wounding of the chief of the Kamal Adwan Hospital,

01:45moderate wound by a chief, of the chief of the Kamal Adwan Hospital in the Jubail refugee camp

01:52after Israeli drones have been reportedly hit around the hospital itself.

01:58This comes against the backdrop of United Nations reports

02:02that 6% of the assistance supposed to enter the Gaza Strip are only entering these days.

02:09That's the situation for the time being.

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