On Tuesday, September 9th, the Israeli military said that it would act with “greater force” in Gaza City and warned residents to flee, in a statement posted on X in Arabic by IDF spokesman Colonel Avichay Adraee.
To all residents of Gaza City! The defense forces are determined to defeat Hamas and will act with greater force in the Gaza City area. Evacuate immediately via the Al-Rashid axis.
Israel has been intensifying its bombardment of the city in preparation for an operation to take control of it, and following the brutal terrorist attack in Jerusalem early on Monday.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu issued a video statement Monday evening, stating
In two days we brought down 50 terror towers, and this is only the opening stage of the intensified ground maneuver in Gaza City. I say to the residents: you have been warned, leave now!
All of this is just a prelude, just the opening, to the main intensified operation–the ground maneuver of our forces, who are now organizing and assembling to enter Gaza City.
With its usual opportunist concerns about international law—ignored during its own October 7th pogrom—terror group Hamas issued the following description of the Israeli warning:
It is taking place under the weight of bombardment, massacres, starvation, and threats of death—constituting a blatant and unprecedented challenge to international laws and conventions.
