Today (Sunday), the Israeli army called on civilians in Gaza to go south, saying that humanitarian efforts in that area of the besieged Strip “will expand.”

The army stated on the “X” platform (formerly Twitter): “Civilians in northern Gaza and in Gaza City must temporarily move to the south of Wadi Gaza, towards a safer area, where they will be able to obtain water, food, and medicine. “And tomorrow (Sunday), humanitarian efforts will expand... led by Egypt and the United States,” according to Agence France-Presse.

The Israeli army has been bombing the Gaza Strip relentlessly since the unprecedented Hamas attack on the territory of the Hebrew state on October 7.

On October 9, Israel tightened its siege on Gaza, cutting off water, electricity, and food supplies, while the Strip, where 2.4 million Palestinians reside, has already been subject to a land, air, and sea blockade since the Hamas movement took power there in 2007.

Since October 21, 84 trucks carrying humanitarian aid have entered Gaza from Egypt, according to the United Nations, while at least 100 trucks are needed daily, according to the United Nations.

The Israeli army has been calling on residents of the northern Gaza Strip, where heavy bombing operations are concentrated, to move south since October 15, but the strikes continue to target the south as well, where hundreds of thousands of civilian residents have moved near the closed border with Egypt. Thousands of Palestinians have returned to the north due to the lack of housing and aid in the south, according to the United Nations.

On the other hand, the network monitoring organization NetBlocks said that Internet service began gradually returning to the Gaza Strip on Sunday after it was cut off on Friday during intense Israeli bombing operations.

NetBlox stated, via the “X” platform, that “real-time network data shows that Internet connectivity is gradually returning” in the Gaza Strip.

Likewise, Paltel, the main communications group operating in the Gaza Strip, and its subsidiary, Jawwal, announced, via Facebook, “the gradual return of communications services (fixed, cellular, and Internet) that were cut off in the Gaza Strip due to the bombing on Friday evening.”

Source: Agencies