Israel told Palestinians in north Gaza to flee to south Gaza, and now it intends to wage full-scale war on south Gaza. From Dave DeCamp at antiwar.com:
Gaza officials said at least 700 Palestinians have been killed since Israel’s onslaught resumed on Friday
The Israeli military said Sunday that its ground operations have expanded to every part of the Gaza Strip and vowed its assault on the south will be just as big as it was in the north.
“It will be no less powerful than [the operations in northern Gaza], it will have no less results,” said Israeli Defense Forces Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Herzi Halevi, according to The Times of Israel.
“We have the capabilities to do it in the most thorough way, and just as we did it with strength and thoroughly in the north of the Gaza Strip, we are also doing it now in the south of the Gaza Strip, and we also continue to deepen the achievements in the north of the Gaza Strip,” Halevi added.
Halevi’s comments came a few days after Secretary of State Antony Blinken visited Israel and told Israeli officials to account for the civilians in south Gaza before expanding operations there. But Israel has continued to ignore US warnings about civilians, which ring hollow as the US is shipping 2,000-pound bombs to Israel while setting no red line for their use.
Israeli bombs have been pounding the Gaza Strip since the truce with Hamas ended on Friday. A UNICEF spokesman said Sunday that south Gaza was facing the “heaviest bombardment” since October 7 and that there were “massive child casualties.”
