Evacuation Orders A ‘Death Sentence’ When No Safe Place To go in Gaza
By Desire Tshuma
In another act of defiance to international law and UNSC resolutions, two massacres have been committed against Palestinian families in the Gaza Strip over the last 24 hours, resulting in the documented killing of at least 23 Palestinians in a bombing carried out by Israeli occupation aircraft and artillery on several sites in the Gaza Strip, mainly in the city of Khan Yunis in the south, and on Shujaiya neighborhood and Nuseirat camp in the centre of the Strip.
These killings come as hundreds of Palestinian patients are forced to flee the European Hospital and tent camps for the displaced in Khan Younis as the Israeli army ordered an immediate evacuation of eastern areas of Gaza’s second-largest city. The latest mass evacuation order comes as Israeli tanks and fierce fighting trap Palestinian civilians in Rafah, in the south of the Gaza Strip, and the Shujayea neighbourhood in northern Gaza City.
Ambassador Dr Tamer Almassri has described the mass evacuations as death sentences and shows yet again that no place is safe in Gaza as Palestinians go through another deadly circle of displacement that the population has to undergo on a regular basis.
Most of Gaza’s population of 2.3 million have fled their homes, with many displaced multiple times. Israeli restrictions and genocide war has hindered the delivery of humanitarian aid, fueling widespread hunger and sparking fears of famine.
Meanwhile, Dr Almassri calls for the banning of Israel from FIFA. This comes at a time of devastating unprecedented reality where since October 2023, over 231 footballers have been killed, including 66 children from the football academy. Palestinian sport and football scene has been totally decimated, in Gaza, all football infrastructure has been severely damaged or entirely destroyed.
The Israeli occupation forces’ aggression against the Gaza Strip, by land, sea and air, which began on October 7, 2023, has so far killed more than 37,900 citizens, the majority of whom are women and children, and injured more than 87,060 others, in an infinite toll, as thousands of victims remain under the rubble.
