Overnight, residents of the Gaza Strip received a warning on their phones from the Israeli army to evacuate the entire northern and central area of the Strip by 2 pm local time on October 13.
The United Nations also received the same communication for the safety of all their staff and facilities, including schools and hospitals.
The area has been under incessant bombing for five days, the roads are destroyed. There is no safe place in Gaza. There is no electricity or petrol.
This request from Israel is unreasonable, it is not possible to move over a million people in a few hours. Supporting the reasons for this decision today means leaving behind innocent civilians who have the right to be protected, including the most vulnerable, including the elderly, displaced people, patients, and hundreds of thousands of children.
We, therefore, join the request of the UN Secretary-General to Undersecretary Blinken who is in the Middle East, to EU President Von Der Leyen, whose visit to Israel is scheduled for today 13 October, to block the operation announced by Israel before the scenarios proposed by the representatives of his Government, starting from the Prime Minister, become reality.
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