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Israeli Army Warns UN Gaza North Population Should Relocate Within 24 Hours

© AFP 2023 / JACK GUEZIsraeli army soldiers are positioned with their armoured vehicles near the border with the Gaza Strip in southern Israel on October 9, 2023.
Israeli army soldiers are positioned with their armoured vehicles near the border with the Gaza Strip in southern Israel on October 9, 2023.  - Sputnik International, 1920, 13.10.2023
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UNITED NATIONS (Sputnik) - The Israeli military has notified the United Nations that the entire population of Gaza north, or approximately 1.1 million people, and the UN staff should relocate to southern Gaza within the next 24 hours, Stephane Dujarric, the spokesman for UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres, told Sputnik on Thursday.
"Today [12 October] just before midnight local time, team leaders of the UN Office of the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs and the Department of Safety and Security in Gaza were informed by their liaison officers in the Israeli military that the entire population of Gaza north of Wadi Gaza should relocate to southern Gaza within the next 24 hours. This amounts to approximately 1.1 million people. The same order applied to all UN staff and those sheltered in UN facilities – including schools, health centres and clinics," Dujarric said in a statement said.
The UN believes it is "impossible for such a movement to take place without devastating humanitarian consequences."
"The United Nations strongly appeals for any such order, if confirmed, to be rescinded avoiding what could transform what is already a tragedy into a calamitous situation," the statement said.
Israeli soldiers take position in northern Israel near the border with Lebanon on October 9, 2023.  - Sputnik International, 1920, 13.10.2023
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