Israel asserted on Sunday that, even as Hamas has urged Palestinians to stay put in Gaza City while the IDF calls on them to evacuate, several of the terror group’s leaders have submitted requests for themselves and their family members to be allowed to exit the Strip.
Maj. Gen. Ghassan Alian, chief of the Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories, posted in Arabic on Facebook about the “hypocritical attempts of senior officials in Gaza City and the Hamas terror organization to evacuate their family members to a third country through the Israeli mechanism for evacuating Gaza residents.”
On X, COGAT, a Defense Ministry body which coordinates humanitarian matters in the Gaza Strip, echoed that statement. The post did not include copies of the requests themselves, which the unit said it denied. “In recent weeks, several requests have been submitted by senior officials for their families to leave the Gaza Strip, some of whom even requested to leave themselves, but their requests were denied by Israel,” COGAT said.
The posts from COGAT come as the IDF’s offensive to conquer Gaza City appears to be imminent. The military has been bombing high-rises in the city that it says were used by Hamas, and its troops have been fighting Hamas operatives in the city’s surroundings. (Read More)
