- Title: Gazans flee Beit Hanoun after Israel ordered evacuation
- Date: 19th March 2025
- Summary: BEIT HANOUN, GAZA (MARCH 19, 2025) (VIDEO OBTAINED BY REUTERS) MAN SHOWING LEAFLET WITH WORDS READING (Arabic): “Urgent Warning” VARIOUS OF PEOPLE FLEEING WITH THEIR BELONGINGS (SOUNDBITE) (Arabic) PALESTINIAN FROM BEIT HANOUN, KHADIJA HAMAD, SAYING: “Until when will we be like this? Until when? This is the tenth time that we are displaced, the tenth time, from Beit Hanoun
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- Keywords: Displaced Gaza Israel Palestinians
- Location: BEIT HANOUN, GAZA
- City: BEIT HANOUN, GAZA
- Country: Palestinian Occupied Territory
- Topics: Conflicts/War/Peace,Middle East
- Reuters ID: LVA001004419032025RP1
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- Story Text: Palestinians in Beit Hanoun in the north of Gaza fled on Wednesday (March 19), after the Israel army issued new evacuation orders for a number of neighbourhoods.
The Israeli army dropped leaflets in the northern and southern Gaza Strip, ordering residents to evacuate their homes, warning they were in "dangerous combat zones."
"Staying in the shelters or the current tent puts your lives and that of your family members in danger, evacuate immediately," read a leaflet dropped on Beit Hanoun.
Israeli strikes killed at least 20 Palestinians in Gaza on Wednesday, local health workers said, as the Israeli military resumed its bombardments.
Israeli airstrikes killed more than 400 people on Tuesday (March 18), according to Palestinian health authorities, in one of the highest single-day death tolls since the beginning of conflict, ending weeks of relative calm since a ceasefire in January.
Israel warned the onslaught was "just the beginning."
Israel and Hamas accuse each other of breaching the truce, which had offered a respite for Gaza's 2.3 million residents after 17 months of war that has reduced the enclave to rubble and forced the majority of its population to displace multiple times.
Israel has accused Hamas of using Palestinian civilians as human shields. The Palestinian Islamist group denies the accusations and accuses Israel of indiscriminate bombings.
Hamas-led gunmen attacked Israel on October 7, 2023, killing some 1,200 people and taking about 250 hostages, according to Israeli tallies, shattering Israel's reputation as invincible in a hostile region in the country's worst security disaster.
The subsequent Israeli campaign in Gaza has killed more than 49,000 people, say Palestinian health authorities, and caused a humanitarian crisis with shortages of food, fuel and water.
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