The Israeli army orders the evacuation of the entire city of Gaza.
Amid the military offensive to seize the capital of the Palestinian enclave that Israel has been carrying out since August, Israel continues to bombard Gaza City while slowly advancing deeper into the town, which it has described as Hamas's "last major stronghold."
Adraee wrote today on his X account: "To all the residents of Gaza City and those in its neighborhoods, from the Old City and Tafah in the east to the sea in the west,"
The publication is accompanied by an infographic indicating that the order affects the entire city , where, according to the UN, nearly one million people live and are sheltering, although until this warning only a small part of the population has been evacuated.
"For your safety, evacuate immediately via the Al-Rashid highway toward the Al-Mawasi humanitarian zone," it added, referring to the designated area near Khan Yunis in the south of the Strip , announced last Saturday despite already being saturated with displaced people. Adraee emphasized that the Israeli army "is determined to eliminate Hamas" and that it "will operate in Gaza City with great force, as it has done in other parts of the enclave."
Israel attacked and destroyed a 12-story office building in Gaza City yesterday after warning residents to evacuate as part of its offensive to seize control of the Palestinian city. The army declared the attack due to "Hamas observation posts and bombs planted around the building."
In recent days, Israel has destroyed some thirty high-rise buildings in the city for the same reason and ordered residents to flee before launching its ground offensive in the city. Defense Minister Israel Katz said yesterday that Hamas is using them as military infrastructure.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says Israel plans to destroy at least 50 "terror towers" used by Hamas. The demolitions are part of Israel's offensive to take control of what it describes as "Hamas's last stronghold," urging Palestinians to flee parts of Gaza City to a designated humanitarian zone in the south of the territory.
Two Palestinians opened fire at a Jerusalem bus station yesterday , killing six people and wounding 12 in the worst such attack against Israelis in nearly a year, heightening tensions that have risen across Israel and the occupied West Bank in the two years since the Hamas attack on October 7, 2024, when Hamas terrorists kidnapped 251 people and killed some 1,200, mostly civilians. Forty-eight hostages are still inside Gaza, of whom around 20 may still be alive.
The Gaza Health Ministry says hospitals have received the bodies of 65 people killed by Israeli fire in the last 24 hours, in addition to another 320 injured. Since the start of the war in the Strip on October 7, 2023, at least 64,522 Gazans have died in Israeli bombing, according to the Gaza Health Ministry, controlled by the Islamist group Hamas, Efe reports.
US President Donald Trump said yesterday that this is his "final warning" to Hamas regarding a possible ceasefire , while Arab officials say they have received a new US proposal for the immediate release of all remaining hostages in exchange for 3,000 Palestinian prisoners and a temporary ceasefire , the Associated Press reported. Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Sa'ar told reporters in Hungary yesterday that Israel had accepted the latest US proposal and hoped it would succeed.
The prisoner exchange would include hundreds of Palestinians serving life sentences, according to officials from Hamas, Islamic Jihad, and Egypt, who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss closed-door talks. The U.S. proposal offers to negotiate an end to the war and the withdrawal of Israeli forces from Gaza once the hostages are released and a ceasefire is established, according to officials familiar with the talks.
Bassem Naim, a senior Hamas official, maintains that the proposal appears designed to be rejected because it requires the release of all hostages on day one, that Hamas disarm, and makes the withdrawal of Israeli forces conditional on the establishment of a government in Gaza acceptable to Israel.
He asserts that Hamas and allied groups are seeking an agreement that "ends the war, halts the genocide, and opens the way for a political solution that achieves our legitimate national goals, but not by signing a humiliating surrender document," although they have shown themselves open to further negotiations.
An Egyptian official said the new proposal, which Arab mediators received through the United States, was broader than previous ones and calls for negotiations on ending the war, the withdrawal of Israeli forces, and the disarmament of Hamas .
Hamas has said it will only return the remaining hostages—its only bargaining chip—in exchange for Palestinian prisoners, a lasting ceasefire, and a complete Israeli withdrawal from Gaza, and asserts that power would remain in the hands of politically independent Palestinians.
Netanyahu has rejected those terms and says the war will continue until all hostages are returned and Hamas is disarmed. He says Israel will maintain indefinite security control over Gaza and facilitate what he describes as the "voluntary emigration" of much of its population, which Palestinians and many others view as a forced expulsion plan.
Mediators had previously focused on negotiating a temporary ceasefire and the release of some hostages, with the two sides later holding talks on a more permanent truce. The United States walked away from those talks in July, after which Hamas accepted a proposal that mediators said was nearly identical to a previous one Israel had approved.
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