An Israeli army spokesman warned the residents of Gaza City against staying there, saying that you live “above a barrel of explosives prepared by (Hamas),” and advised them to head to the south of the Strip.

Spokesman Avichai Adraee said on his account on the “X” platform that whoever, a resident of the neighborhoods of Al-Daraj, Nasser, Sheikh Radwan, the Old City, and Al-Zaytoun, decides to stay in his home “at his own risk, and will expose himself and his family members to danger.”

Adraee advised residents to head to the south of Wadi Gaza “for your safety.”

Earlier today, Israeli media said that the War Council concluded its meeting at the Southern Command headquarters in Beersheba, in preparation for launching the expected ground attack on the Strip.