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Israel's military said on Wednesday that the evacuation of Gaza City is "inevitable" ahead of a planned military offensive as aid groups sound the alarm over expanded operations in the Strip, Euronews reports.
"The evacuation of Gaza City is inevitable," the IDF's Arabic-language spokesperson Avichay Adraee wrote on X, as he advised residents of the city to prepare to leave.
He said Israeli forces have surveyed vast empty areas south of the city "to assist the evacuating residents as much as possible."
Adraee said the displaced would receive space for tents, and infrastructure would be set up to distribute aid and water. "Every family that relocates to the south will receive the most generous humanitarian aid, which is currently being worked on," he explained on X.
But aid groups have warned that an expanded Israeli military offensive could worsen the humanitarian crisis in the territory, where most of its over 2 million residents are displaced, neighbourhoods lie in ruins and famine has been declared in Gaza City.