Israeli planes drop leaflets warning that Gaza is "a battlefield"

This Saturday, Israeli planes dropped leaflets over Gaza City warning its inhabitants that the area is now “a battlefield” while bombing from the air increases.

“To the people of the Gaza Strip: Gaza City is now a battlefield. The shelters there and in the north are not safe,” read the leaflets, in which Gazans are ordered to “evacuate immediately” to the south.

Previously, the Israeli military spokesman, Rear Admiral Daniel Hagari, sent a message to civilians in the north of the Strip and Gaza City to immediately move south in the face of the Army's ground advance and the intensification of bombing.

“To the people of northern Gaza and Gaza City: time is running out. Go south for your own safety. This is not a simple precautionary measure; “It is an urgent warning for the safety of civilians,” says Hagari in the statement, recorded on video and spread on X (formerly Twitter) and other networks.

“Hamas puts your lives in danger”

In the message, Hagari states that the Islamist group Hamas, which has de facto controlled the strip since 2007, “puts your lives in danger by hiding weapons and troops in schools, mosques and hospitals.”

The objective of the military operation in Gaza, says the Israeli Army spokesperson, is to “neutralize the threat of Hamas”, whose armed wing was the author of the attacks against Israeli territory on the 7th.

“We are going to destroy” the Hamas threat “with precision and intensity,” stresses Hagari, who also comments that “humanity remains shocked by the massacre committed on the 7th and that we will not forget, just as we do not forget the kidnapping of more than 200 Israelis.” “.

According to Hamas, 7,703 people have been killed in Gaza and 18,967 have been injured by the bombings that Israel has carried out since the terrorists' surprise raid took the lives of 1,400 people.. Another 229 were kidnapped and have remained in the hands of the Islamist group ever since.