{"id":78284,"date":"2023-10-13T22:45:55","date_gmt":"2023-10-13T22:45:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/armytimes\/uncategorized\/2023\/10\/13\/palestinians-in-gaza-face-choice-stay-home-under-airstrikes-or-flee\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T15:27:58","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T15:27:58","slug":"palestinians-in-gaza-face-choice-stay-home-under-airstrikes-or-flee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/armytimes\/flashpoints\/2023\/10\/13\/palestinians-in-gaza-face-choice-stay-home-under-airstrikes-or-flee\/","title":{"rendered":"Palestinians in Gaza face choice: Stay home under airstrikes or flee?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) \u2014 Watching the pulverized alleys of Jabaliya refugee camp in northern Gaza empty of people, Naji Jamal was frozen with indecision.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Should he heed the <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/israel-palestinians-gaza-hamas-war-c8b4fc20e4fd2ef381d5edb7e9e8308c\">Israeli army\u2019s demand<\/a> that all Palestinians evacuate and make the risky trip to Gaza\u2019s south, where his only certainty was homelessness? Or should he stay at his multistory building \u2014 within what the Israeli army has now designated a target zone \u2014 ahead of a likely <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/israel-hamas-gaza-military-ground-reoccupation-3e6f08a75643b21e41a498277e84b5b9\">Israeli ground invasion<\/a>?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIt\u2019s an existential question, but there is no answer,\u201d Jamal, a 34-year-old health clinic worker, said. \u201cThere is no safe haven, there is no place that is not being shelled and besieged, there is no place to go.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In an unprecedented order to civilians in northern Gaza and Gaza City, the Israeli military gave Jamal \u2014 and 1.1 million other Palestinians \u2014 24 hours to make up their minds. It was the sixth day of Israeli bombing prompted by <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/israel-palestinians-gaza-hamas-rockets-airstrikes-tel-aviv-11fb98655c256d54ecb5329284fc37d2\">Hamas\u2019 brutal attack<\/a> that killed more than 1,300 Israelis and stunned the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As the clock ticked on the ultimatum, hundreds of thousands of Israeli army reservists were massing near Gaza\u2019s northern border. Israeli warplanes roared overhead, diving low to hurl bombs at homes and residential high-rises. Aid groups appealed to the international community to stop what they denounced as a <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/israel-hamas-gaza-war-crimes-icc-1a42212b95a7f6ce54909fb22e0d681d\">possible war crime<\/a> of forcible population transfer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/gaza-israel-palestinians-war-hamas-militants-civilians-casualites-8469bbcb566446d78f368bf2a1b49d88\">In understaffed<\/a> and poorly supplied <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/civilian-toll-israel-palestinians-war-gaza-strikes-71177c4c45a02e0a2dab9d48615310fd\">hospitals<\/a>, Palestinian doctors said they felt they had no choice but to stay put. There was no way to evacuate Shifa, Gaza\u2019s biggest hospital, its general director Mohammad Abu Selim said. Even though the hospital was in chaos \u2014 its electricity dwindling under an Israeli siege, its beds overwhelmed, its morgue overflowing \u2014 Abu Selim said there was simply no other safe place in Gaza to put 600 patients, many of them in serious condition from the attacks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cTo ask us to evacuate is ridiculous, it\u2019s impossible,\u201d Abu Selim said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But hundreds of thousands of other Palestinians across the territory wrangled over the agonizing choice as the <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/live\/israel-hamas-war-live-updates#0000018b-2a9d-d04c-a5ef-3f9f1aa20000\">Israeli retaliation intensified<\/a>. The Israeli army says its airstrikes target militant infrastructure, not civilians \u2014 a claim that Palestinians reject.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Many fled south for their lives, squeezing into relatives\u2019 cars and trundling through streets blocked by rubble even as thundering bombardment crashed around them. A jumbled line of tractors, horse carts and donkeys stretched some 30 kilometers (18 miles) across the strip, turning what is normally a breezy 45-minute trip into a harrowing \u2014 and for dozens of people, deadly \u2014 two-hour journey.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Israeli airstrikes on evacuating vehicles killed at least 70 people, the <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/israel-palestinians-hamas-conflict-endgame-1bfcc187d826596e78090ec6cbf6516c\">Hamas<\/a> press office said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI don\u2019t trust them,\u201d said Ali Abdul Bari, a 37-year-old resident of Gaza City said of the Israeli army. \u201cBut I will always do whatever I can to keep my family safe.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Bari\u2019s apartment on the northwest edge of Gaza City was flattened in a huge airstrike late Thursday. Dazed and weary from nights spent awake, he arrived in Khan Younis, a city in southern Gaza, after the evacuation order, but couldn\u2019t fit all his family members in the car. He promised his aunt and uncle that he would return for them Saturday. Bari said the decision was simple for him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI am responsible for my parents, my brothers and my sisters,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When asked about how civilians would be able to evacuate to safety even as heavy bombardment persisted, Rear Adm. Daniel Hagari, an Israeli military spokesman, told reporters: \u201cWe will try to make sure that it will happen.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Despite the danger, some stubbornly refused to leave their homes. They watched the convoys pass, remembering previous tides of Palestinian refugees who fled other wars only to never be able to return home. Some Palestinians point back to what they call <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/israel-palestinians-gaza-evacuation-history-nakba-a1bec1ee3477573e80b39b4044a48111\">the Nakba<\/a>, or \u201ccatastrophe,\u201d of Israel\u2019s creation in 1948, when some 700,000 fled or were driven from their homes in what is now Israel. Gaza\u2019s Hamas rulers have also urged people not to flee, describing Israel\u2019s order as \u201cpsychological warfare\u201d to break their solidarity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThis is the Nakba, all of our traumas, all over again,\u201d said activist Yasser Hasouneh, in Gaza City. \u201cWe will not be intimidated.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Others did not have the means or the foresight to pack up and leave.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Jamal, in the Jabaliya camp, simply didn\u2019t have a car. The thought of piling his infant son, ailing mother and 30 other family members onto a horse cart and sending them through a war zone made him shudder. He said he was resigned to whatever God had in store for him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThis way we will be together and can read the Quran and pray,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For many, word of evacuations moved slowly, due to the the collapse of mobile phone networks and internet in much of Gaza.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the heart of Gaza City \u2014 a once-vibrant district hollowed out by heavy bombardment \u2014 27-year-old engineer Saeb al-Jarz was waiting for word of his father, who was wounded in an airstrike on their residential tower late Thursday. Three of his neighbors were killed and his family home destroyed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Still in shock from the scenes he witnessed, al-Jarz first heard about the Israeli army\u2019s evacuation ultimatum from an Associated Press reporter. He was thrown into a panic, scrambling to figure out next steps with his 25 relatives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cMaybe we stay, because if we die, we die together,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">His voice trembled. 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