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Hamas rejects Israel's order to evacuate north Gaza
Updated 16:10, 13-Oct-2023
CGTN

Hamas on Friday rejected an Israeli order for 1.1 million residents to evacuate northern Gaza within 24 hours ahead of an expected ground incursion into the overcrowded Palestinian territory.

"Our Palestinian people reject the threat of the occupation (Israeli) leaders and its call for them to leave their homes and flee from them to the south or Egypt," Hamas said in a statement.

Hamas, which controls the Gaza Strip, also claimed on Friday that at least 13 Israeli and foreign hostages held in the northern Gaza Strip have been killed in Israeli air strikes in the past 24 hours.

"Thirteen prisoners ... including foreigners" were killed in five locations targeted by Israeli fighter jets, the Ezzedine al-Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of Hamas, said in a statement.

Source(s): AFP

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