Some 1.1 million people in northern Gaza have been ordered by Israel to flee homes as latest Israel-Palestine war enters its eighth day and Israeli military appears to be preparing a ground invasion.
Israeli warplanes have conducted intensive airstrikes in northern Gaza early Saturday amid reports of casualties.
The UN warned it would be impossible for Palestinians in Gaza to obey the order to leave the north without “devastating humanitarian consequences.”EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell has said that Israel's to evacuation order to more than one million people out of northern Gaza in a single day was"utterly impossible to implement".
Israel has bombarded Gaza since then, killing at least 1,900 people, mostly civilians and including more than 600 children, according to the Palestinian Health Ministry. China's special envoy on the Middle East has met with representatives of the Arab League in China for an emergency session on the crisis in Israel and Gaza, according to a statement from China's Foreign Ministry.
Anadolu's communication with the team in Gaza City's centre in the north of the region has been completely cut off for three hours following Israel's intensive bombardment of the enclave and its energy and communication infrastructure blockade.Bahrain’s Crown Prince Salman bin Hamad Al-Khalifa has highlighted the need for an urgent aid corridor to allow medical and humanitarian aid, food, medicine, water and electricity into Gaza amid airstrikes by Israel.
Calling for an end to the Israeli attacks, the ministry statement said that the number of wounded people has risen to 7,696, including 2,000 children and 1,400 women. The top diplomat demanded stopping attacks on civilians, ending the blockade, allowing the delivery of humanitarian and medical aid to the Palestinians"and ensuring providing them with water and food."The UN Security Council has met behind closed doors to discuss the Israel-Palestine war as Palestinians stream out of northern Gaza following Israeli military threats.
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