2023-11-22 04:45:57
According to media reports, around six weeks after the start of the Gaza war, Israel is allowing residents to return to their hometowns in the immediate vicinity of the Gaza Strip. Israelis who lived up to four kilometers from the Gaza Strip were allowed to return to their homes, the Kan radio station reported on Tuesday and published a corresponding letter from the army on the X platform, formerly Twitter. The background is the progress of the fighting in the Gaza war. The military did not initially comment.
According to the news site “Ynet”, places up to seven kilometers from the border were evacuated after the massacre by the Islamist Hamas in the south of the country on October 7th. According to Israeli information, around 1,200 people were killed in the massacre and around 240 hostages were taken to the Gaza Strip.
At the end of October, around a quarter of a million people in Israel had left their homes because of the Gaza war and the fighting on the Lebanese border. The Defense Ministry said at the time that 126,000 people had been housed in less vulnerable locations as part of an official eviction program. In addition, many people left their homes of their own accord to seek safety, bringing the total number to around 250,000. Israel has almost ten million inhabitants. (DPA)
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