Gaza – Yesterday, Sunday, the Israeli army renewed its insistence on preventing the return of displaced people to their homes in the northern Gaza Strip, considering it a “war zone.”
This came according to a tweet by army spokesman Avichay Adraee on the “X” platform, after dozens of women and children arrived for the first time in the northern Gaza Strip through individual initiatives, despite the Israeli army targeting them during their attempt to reach.
Adraee said, “The reports about the Israeli army forces allowing the return of the Palestinian population to the northern Gaza Strip area are false and completely baseless rumors.”
He added: “The Israeli army does not allow the return of residents, neither through Salah al-Din (east) nor through Al-Rashid Street (west).”
Adraee warned the Palestinians against approaching the Israeli forces operating in the northern Gaza Strip.
He concluded by saying: “The northern Gaza Strip is still a war zone and we will not allow a return to it.”
In turn, the Anadolu correspondent, quoting eyewitnesses, reported that hundreds of Palestinians are trying to return to northern Gaza via the Wadi Gaza Bridge on Al-Rashid Street, and very few of them, all of them women and children, succeeded in reaching the northern Gaza Strip.
Witnesses who were among those who tried to return to the north confirmed that the Israeli army asked them to return to the south and fired fire and smoke bombs at them, to prevent them from continuing the road and reaching the north.
Despite this, families are still present on the Wadi Gaza Bridge and on the seashore in that area, in an attempt to return to the areas from which they were displaced.
In the truce negotiations, Hamas insists on the return of the displaced to the northern Gaza Strip, a basic condition among other conditions for concluding a prisoner exchange deal with Israel, leading to a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip.
Since last October 7, Israel has been waging a devastating war on Gaza, leaving more than 100,000 dead and wounded, most of them children and women, and massive destruction and famine that claimed the lives of children and the elderly, according to Palestinian and UN data.
Israel continues the war despite the issuance of an immediate ceasefire resolution by the Security Council, as well as despite its first appearance before the International Court of Justice on charges of committing “genocide.”
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2024-04-16 18:49:37