Footage of the evacuation of residents of the Gaza Strip against the background of the Israeli offensive has been published

Residents of Gaza City are hurriedly leaving their homes amid the offensive of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF). Izvestia publishes footage of the evacuation on September 17.

The published footage shows queues of loaded cars.

"The intensity of shelling in Gaza City is increasing every day, including attacks already being carried out in the eastern districts of Zaitoun and Al-Tafel – in the latter, the Aiba mosque was completely destroyed. There are also requests for help to move from one side of the sector to the other faster," said journalist Marwan Hamed.

According to him, the situation in the enclave is only getting worse.

Israel launched a ground operation in Gaza amid accusations of genocide. What the media is writing

On September 16, Israel launched a ground operation to occupy Gaza City. It is accompanied by massive strikes throughout the enclave. Later, the country's defense ministry noted that the IDF would strike Gaza until it defeated Hamas and freed the hostages. At the same time, the UN Commission of Inquiry into the events in the Occupied Palestinian Territories and Israel recognized Tel Aviv's actions in the Gaza Strip as genocide.

Later, on September 17, The Times of Israel newspaper reported that about 400,000 Palestinians had managed to leave the territory of Gaza City before Israel launched an expanded ground offensive on the capital of the Middle Eastern enclave. It was clarified that by the time Israel announced preparations for the assault, about 1 million people lived in the capital of the Gaza Strip.

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