Displaced Palestinians flee Gaza City amid an Israeli military operation following an evacuation on Tuesday.

The Israeli military has issued an evacuation order for hundreds of thousands of people: “To all residents of Gaza City in every neighbourhood … evacuate immediately through Al Rasheed Street toward the humanitarian zone in Al-Mawasi, Khan Younis,” said spokesman Avichay Adraee in a statement posted online Tuesday in Arabic.

The announcement is the most sweeping since the war in Gaza began in October, 2023. Evacuation is no longer limited to one area or neighbourhood, as previous Israeli military orders have instructed; it now covers the entirety of Gaza City, which is still sheltering more than 700,000 people and has been enduring a famine since August.

It signals that the assau

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