People in Gaza forced to stay in areas at risk of Israeli attack as ‘safe zone’ full

Overcrowding in humanitarian zone dissuading those given evacuation orders by IDF from leaving, say UN officials

Thousands of people facing Israeli airstrikes in Gaza have been forced to abandon plans to comply with Israeli evacuation orders telling them to move to a designated safe humanitarian zone" because there is no space for them there.

At the weekend the Israeli military told residents of multiple neighbourhoods in and around the central Gaza town of Deir al-Balah to leave their homes ahead of planned attacks and go to the narrow strip of coast around the small town of al-Mawasi that was designated earlier in the war to receive displaced people.