Gaza Herald – Government Media Office in Gaza confirms over one million Palestinians are still holding their ground in Gaza City and the north, rejecting Israel’s forced displacement to the south, even as nearly 190,000 have already been driven out under its plan of permanent expulsion. Government data indicate that Gaza City’s population exceeds 1.3 million, with nearly 350,000 residents displaced from eastern neighborhoods to central and western parts.
The Israeli occupation’s strategy is clear: flatten entire residential blocks, destroy towers, and commit massacres to sow chaos and terror, forcing families south. Yet the so-called “safe zones” Israel designates are anything but safe. Khan Younis and Central Gaza, which are already packed with more than 800,000 displaced people, have been bombed over 100 times since being labeled “safe,” leaving dozens killed inside areas falsely described as “humanitarian corridors.”
The International Committee of the Red Cross has condemned Israel’s evacuation orders as both unsafe and unfeasible. They warn that the south lacks food, water, shelter, medical care, and basic necessities for survival. What Israel calls “shelter zones” cover barely 12% of Gaza’s land, yet Israel seeks to cram more than 1.7 million people into them, turning them into concentration camps under open skies.
Human rights groups say this is not relocation, it is ethnic cleansing. With entire families buried under rubble, children starving, and survivors trapped with nowhere to go, Israel’s plan amounts to a systematic war crime.
