Fact check: Israel told Gaza citizens to evacuate or die
This appears to be another MSM half-truth
Israel has been blamed in nearly every news report that I have heard or read lately for having told the citizens of Gaza to leave when there is nowhere to go. In fact this claim appears to be untrue: the Israelis have actually told the residents of north Gaza to head to South Gaza or be treated as terrorists, they have not been told to leave Gaza altogether.
A report from Politico describes an Israeli leaflet drop/cell phone message sent to residents of Gaza:
Residents in Gaza reported that Israeli planes rained red leaflets on neighbourhoods Saturday, urging residents to evacuate. Those with cell phones also received the message digitally, according to social media reports.
“Urgent warning!” the message read. “To the residents of Gaza: your presence to the North of Wadi Gaza is putting your lives at risk. Anyone who chooses not to evacuate from the North of the Gaza Strip to the South of the Gaza Strip may be identified as a partner in a terrorist organization.”
This is quite different from the impression given in many news reports, that the Israelis have given the Gazans nowhere to go.
The Politico report continues, giving more context to the leaflet drop:
When asked about the leaflets Saturday, IDF spokesperson Lt. Col. Jonathan Conricus told MSNBC that the message was “lost in translation,” as it had been rendered from its original Hebrew to Arabic, and then to English.
“The short message is: vacate, evacuate Northern Gaza. No matter where you are. Whatever facility you’re in, there’s gonna be significant combat, and vacate Northern Gaza,” Conricus said.
The IDF spokesperson also insisted that the message was not intended to label residents of North Gaza as terrorists but that it instead aimed to warn Gazans not to become a “pawn” of Hamas.
“The essence that we are telling civilians is, you are in a dangerous place — we don’t want to label anybody a terrorist. But people who stay in Northern Gaza are endangering their own lives. Therefore, if you want to be safer, go south. Do not listen to Hamas. Don’t be a pawn in their game of keeping human shields. Go south, and be safer.”
The many BBC news reports about the inability of British nationals who are residents in Gaza to be able to cross at the border crossing at Rafah have not mentioned the fact that Rafah is a safer place to be than than north Gaza. It is sad that once great news organisations, the Australian ABC and the British BBC, have become leftist propaganda mouthpieces that are no longer dependable for providing nuanced factual news.
The BBC is rather FAMOUSLY a Zionist HASBARAH mouthpiece. When even the BBC has to temper their enthusiasm for Genocide and Ethnic Cleansing - you know that things have gotten to an extreme point.
Where in South Gaza are these Million+ Innocent civilians supposed to go? Are there habitable dwellings waiting for them? Is there adequate food and potable water to sustain human life waiting for them, there?
No... No, there isn't. What do you think that the Empire's MOCKINGBIRD press corps would say, if Russia made a similar decree for Kharkov or Kiev? They would rightly be calling it a Warcrime, and Crimes Against Humanity. Siege warfare - and collective punishment are both Warcrimes. As it stands, Vladimir Putin stands indicted by the ICC, for assisting the VOLUNTARY evacuation of ethnic Russian children, from the war zones in the east of Ukraine.
We shouldn't just IGNORE the language of Expulsion and Elimination, that members of the current, overtly Fascist Zionist-Apartheid Entity Government (like Smotrich, BenGvir and Netanyahu) have all made in public statements about the Palestinians. Pushing people out of their homes in the Open Air Prison, that is the Gaza strip, towards the Egyptian border - looks like the beginning of a plan for expulsion, to me. If you make life tough enough, and get buy-in from the Egyptians...you might be able to get those people, now living in tents (if they're lucky), with inadequate food and water, to flee, "voluntarily". And then you just refuse to let them return.
https://rumble.com/v3pr62s-must-see-the-mystery-of-israel-solved.html
https://youtu.be/v9q4e9zmTL0