A U.N. spokesman said such a movement would turn “what is already a tragedy into a calamitous situation.”

Israel’s military has informed the United Nations that the entire population of northern Gaza should relocate to the southern half of the territory within 24 hours, the U.N. spokesman, Stéphane Dujarric, said late on Thursday night, adding that such a movement — involving over one million people — would lead to “devastating humanitarian consequences.”

“The same order applied to all U.N. staff and those sheltered in U.N. facilities — including schools, health centers and clinics,” Mr. Dujarric said.

The U.N. was told that the marker dividing the north from south was Wadi Gaza, the statement said.

The U.N. Security Council is scheduled to hold an emergency meeting on Friday afternoon in a closed consultation format

  • mwguy@infosec.pubEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    Everything that should’ve been required for peace, gone to waste because Israel didn’t want peace.

    Bullshit. Realizing that Hamas was tearing up it’s own infrastructure to build rockets and refusing to stop the blockade during. A period of regular rocket attacks doesn’t mean it didn’t wasn’t peace. 2012 was the “we cease you fire” ceasefire era.

    • NoneOfUrBusiness@kbin.social
      0·
      1 year ago

      I like how you just dismissed the conclusion without addressing the reasoning. Anyway for everyone who’s wondering why there isn’t peace in the region, there you have it.

      • mwguy@infosec.pubEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        Hamas didn’t resume rocket fire. The 2012 era ceasefire is the one where they kept firing rockets.

        • NoneOfUrBusiness@kbin.social
          1·
          1 year ago

          That’s definitely not what I read. See:

          From December 2012 to late June/early July 2014, Hamas did not fire rockets into Israel, and tried to police other groups doing so.[111] These efforts were largely successful; Netanyahu stated in March 2014 that the rocket fire in the past year was the “lowest in a decade.”[29][111][112] According to Shabak, in the first half of 2014 there were 181 rocket attacks[113] compared to 55 rocket attacks in whole 2013.

        • NoneOfUrBusiness@kbin.social
          1·
          1 year ago

          From December 2012 to late June/early July 2014, Hamas did not fire rockets into Israel, and tried to police other groups doing so.[111] These efforts were largely successful; Netanyahu stated in March 2014 that the rocket fire in the past year was the “lowest in a decade.”[29][111][112] According to Shabak, in the first half of 2014 there were 181 rocket attacks[113] compared to 55 rocket attacks in whole 2013.

          -Wikipedia.