People evacuate Gaza City following an Israeli warning of increased military operations in the Gaza strip. MOHAMMED SABER/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock
Tens of thousands of people in Gaza are believed to have fled their homes and moved south following Israel’s evacuation warning, according to estimates by the UN humanitarian office OCHA. Prior to the evacuation order, more than 400,000 Palestinians were already internally displaced, it said.
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Israel’s military has told about 1.1 million people in northern Gaza to evacuate to the south ahead of an expected ground invasion. Hamas urged people to stay put and defy the Israeli military order to evacuate homes.
In Gaza, civil defense teams and residents are carrying out search and rescue operations around buildings destroyed in Israeli air strikes. Israeli authorities are continuing to urge residents in the north of the Gaza Strip to move southward.
Pictures from this morning Oct. 14 2023
Civil defense teams and residents launch a search and rescue operation around buildings that were destroyed or heavily damaged as Israel’s attacks on the Gaza Strip continue on its eighth day in Khan Yunis, Gaza on October 14, 2023. Photograph: Anadolu Agency/Anadolu/Getty Images
Israeli troops in tanks and other armoured vehicles amass in a field near the southern Israeli city of Ashkelon on October 14, 2023, as fighting between Israel and the Hamas movement continues for the eighth consecutive day. Photograph: Thomas Coex/AFP/Getty Images
