Exodus on foot - Palestinians flee as Israeli forces close in on Gaza City
The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs said on Wednesday that about 15,000 people fled on Tuesday, compared to 5,000 on Monday and 2,000 on Sunday.
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00:00 Israel said it had destroyed 130 Hamas tunnels in the Gaza Strip since it began its ground
00:07 operations. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the Israel defense forces were encircling
00:12 Gaza City and operating inside it. UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres has said that the
00:19 number of civilians killed in the Gaza Strip shows that there is something clearly wrong
00:24 with Israel's military operation against the Islamist Hamas organization. According to
00:30 the Hamas-run health ministry in the besieged territory, the Israeli military campaign has
00:34 killed 10,569 people, many of them children. The pace of Palestinian civilians fleeing
00:41 south from northern Gaza has accelerated as strikes intensified. Crowds of Palestinians
00:46 took heed of Israeli military orders and fled northern Gaza on Wednesday during a four-hour
00:52 window to evacuate. Thousands of people walked down Gaza's main north-south Salah al-Din
00:57 highway with only what they could carry in their arms, some of them holding makeshift
01:02 white flags. The Qatari government is mediating in collaboration with the United States for
01:07 Hamas to release some of the hostages it's been holding since October 7, in exchange
01:12 for Benjamin Netanyahu allowing a humanitarian pause in Gaza.
01:17 [WHOOSH]