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<\/p>\nThe head of the Red Cross has warned that a mass evacuation of Gaza City would be both unsafe and unworkable, as Israel presses ahead with plans to seize control of the enclave.<\/p>\n
Mirjana Spoljaric, president of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), said on Saturday that \u201cit is impossible that a mass evacuation of Gaza City could ever be done in a way that is safe and dignified under the current conditions.\u201d<\/p>\n
She cautioned that forcing people out would trigger a wave of displacement that the rest of the Gaza Strip\u2014crippled by shortages of food, medicine, and shelter\u2014cannot absorb. Many residents, she added, are too sick, hungry, or injured to move.<\/p>\n
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Israel has urged civilians to head south as its military campaign intensifies, saying it is working to balance humanitarian efforts with operations aimed at destroying Hamas. But Spoljaric stressed that international law obliges Israel to guarantee safety, shelter, and food for civilians before any evacuation order can be enforced\u2014conditions she said \u201ccannot currently be met in Gaza.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThe idea of a safe evacuation is not just unfeasible\u2014it is incomprehensible under the present circumstances,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
The war began with Hamas\u2019s October 7, 2023 assault on Israel, which killed about 1,200 people and led to the taking of some 250 hostages, according to Israeli figures. Since then, more than 63,000 Palestinians\u2014mostly civilians\u2014have been killed in Gaza, according to health officials in the enclave.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The head of the Red Cross has warned that a mass evacuation of Gaza City would be both…","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2270,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"csco_display_header_overlay":false,"csco_singular_sidebar":"","csco_page_header_type":"","csco_page_load_nextpost":"","csco_post_video_location":[],"csco_post_video_location_hash":"","csco_post_video_url":"","csco_post_video_bg_start_time":0,"csco_post_video_bg_end_time":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,30],"tags":[55,39,48,49,50,80],"class_list":["post-2269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space-future","category-world","tag-business","tag-entertainment","tag-feature","tag-human-interest","tag-international","tag-south-africa","cs-entry","cs-video-wrap"],"yoast_head":"\n