Thousands of Palestinians are fleeing northern Gaza on foot as food and water are running out.
Palestinians leave from the northern part of the Gaza to flee the central and southern parts of the Gaza Strip. (Photo by Mustafa Hassona/Anadolu via Getty Images)
On Wednesday Nov. 8, Israel announced that it would begin pausing military operations for 4 hours every day to allow humanitarian aid to enter and civilians to flee.
A day earlier, 15,000 Palestinians fled northern Gaza during a pause in fighting, according to the United Nations.
Palestinians carrying belongings flee to safer areas following Israeli bombardments on southern part of Gaza City, Tel al-Hawa neighborhood, Gaza. (Photo by Ali Jadallah/Anadolu via Getty Images)
That is triple the number of people who left one day prior on Monday.
The UN said those fleeing included children, older people and people with disabilities, who mostly traveled on foot in large groups, carrying white flags and minimal belongings.
People carry bags of bread as others queue in front of a bakery that was partially destroyed in an Israeli strike, in the Nuseirat refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip. (Photo by Majdi Fathi/NurPhoto)
More than 70% of Gaza’s population of 2.3 million have already been displaced since the war started on Oct. 7, but the number fleeing south has grown in recent days.
This is because Israeli troops are now fighting Hamas fighters inside Gaza city.
People flee following Israeli air strikes on a neighbourhood in the al-Maghazi refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip. (Photo by YASSER QUDIH/AFP via Getty Images)
Graphic content / Palestinian queue to fill containers with water in Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip. (Photo by MAHMUD HAMS/AFP via Getty Images)
On Thursday Nov. 9, the UN said that all bakeries in the north of Gaza had been forced to close due to “lack of fuel, water and wheat flour”.
A Palestinian man and his son sit holding a bag of bread outside a destroyed bakery at the Nuseirat refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip. (Photo by MOHAMMED ABED/AFP via Getty Images)
Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu has insisted that there will be no ceasefire unless Hamas releases all of its hostages.
Hundreds of thousands of people still remain in Gaza, with many attempting to seek shelter at Al-Shifa, which is Gaza’s largest hospital.
An ambulance arrives at Al-Shifa hopsital in Gaza City. (Photo by DAWOOD NEMER/AFP via Getty Images)
Large bundles of personal possessions are carried on the head of Arab women and children begin a three mile hike through no man’s land to the Arab lines in Tulkarim. (via Getty Images)
Many Palestinians say they are fearful this will be another Nakba, when hundreds of thousands of Palestinians were expelled from their lands during the creation of Israel in 1948.
The 1948 Palestinian exodus, known in Arabic as the Nakba (Arabic: an-Nakbah, lit.’catastrophe’), occurred when more than 700,000 Palestinian Arabs fled or were expelled from their homes. (via Getty Images)The 1948 Palestinian exodus, known in Arabic as the Nakba (Arabic: al-Nakbah, lit.’catastrophe’), occurred when more than 700,000 Palestinian Arabs fled or were expelled from their homes. (via Getty Images)
