{"id":23735,"date":"2025-05-06T14:44:36","date_gmt":"2025-05-06T14:44:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/israeli-official-says-gaza-will-be-entirely-destroyed-palestinians-will-start-to-leave-in-great-numbers\/"},"modified":"2025-05-06T14:44:36","modified_gmt":"2025-05-06T14:44:36","slug":"israeli-official-says-gaza-will-be-entirely-destroyed-palestinians-will-start-to-leave-in-great-numbers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/israeli-official-says-gaza-will-be-entirely-destroyed-palestinians-will-start-to-leave-in-great-numbers\/","title":{"rendered":"Israeli official says Gaza will be &#8220;entirely destroyed,&#8221; Palestinians &#8220;will start to leave in great numbers&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p>Israel&#8217;s far-right Minister of Finance Bezalel Smotrich said Tuesday that a victory for Israel in Gaza would mean the Palestinian territory being &#8220;entirely destroyed&#8221; before its inhabitants depart for other countries.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Gaza will be entirely destroyed, civilians will be sent to&#8230; the south to a humanitarian zone without Hamas or terrorism, and from there they will start to leave in great numbers to third countries,&#8221; the firebrand top official said at a conference on Jewish settlement in the Israeli-occupied West Bank.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/israel-gaza-war-hamas-offensive-expanding-expel-palestinians\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">Israel&#8217;s plan to seize control of the Gaza Strip<\/a><\/span> has sparked renewed fears, but for many of the territory&#8217;s residents, the most immediate existential threat remains the specter of famine amid a months-long Israeli blockade on all goods entering the enclave, which is home to more than 2 million people.<\/p>\n<p>The plan to expand military operations, approved by Israel&#8217;s security cabinet late Sunday night, includes holding territories in the besieged Gaza Strip and moving the population south &#8220;for their protection,&#8221; according to Israeli officials.<\/p>\n<p>But Gaza residents told the AFP news agency that they did not expect the <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/israel-hamas-war-gaza-palestinians-deaths-displaced-after-ceasefire\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">new offensive<\/a><\/span> would make any significant changes to the already dire <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/wars-toll-on-gazas-children-60-minutes\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">humanitarian situation<\/a><\/span> in the small coastal territory.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"embed embed--type-image is-image embed--float-none embed--size-medium\">\n<p>      <span class=\"img embed__content\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/assets3.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2025\/05\/06\/d4b79266-6621-4818-9d83-25bb063cea87\/thumbnail\/620x413\/f8b10fd7f83b93585024a7b7e0f10617\/gettyimages-2213121909.jpg?v=7c5acc180b39394767372ab4e02619ce#\" alt=\"Israeli attacks on Gaza continue \" height=\"413\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\" srcset=\"https:\/\/assets3.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2025\/05\/06\/d4b79266-6621-4818-9d83-25bb063cea87\/thumbnail\/620x413\/f8b10fd7f83b93585024a7b7e0f10617\/gettyimages-2213121909.jpg?v=7c5acc180b39394767372ab4e02619ce 1x, https:\/\/assets1.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2025\/05\/06\/d4b79266-6621-4818-9d83-25bb063cea87\/thumbnail\/1240x826\/720361f500d9be5335706e78fc16fa89\/gettyimages-2213121909.jpg?v=7c5acc180b39394767372ab4e02619ce 2x\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/span><figcaption class=\"embed__caption-container\">\n<p>                  <span class=\"embed__caption\">Residents of the area examine the rubble of buildings following an Israeli attack on Nuseirat Refugee Camp, in Gaza City, on May 6, 2025.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>                  <span class=\"embed__credit\"><\/p>\n<p>                Ali Jadallah\/Anadolu via Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>                          <\/span><br \/>\n              <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&#8220;Israel has not stopped the war, the killing, the bombing, the destruction, the siege, and the starvation \u2014 every day \u2014 so how can they talk about expanding military operations?&#8221; Awni Awad, 39, told AFP.<\/p>\n<p>Awad, who lives in a tent in the southern Gaza city of Khan Yunis after being displaced by Israeli evacuation orders, said that his situation was already &#8220;catastrophic and tragic.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I call on the world to witness the famine that grows and spreads every day,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>The U.N.&#8217;s World Food Program in late April said it had depleted all its foods stocks in Gaza due to Israel&#8217;s blockade on all supplies since March 2.<\/p>\n<p>Aya al-Skafy, a resident of Gaza City, told AFP her baby died because of malnutrition and medicine shortages last week.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;She was four months old and weighed 2.8 kilograms (6.2 pounds), which is very little. Medicine was not available,&#8221; she said. &#8220;Due to severe malnutrition, she suffered from blood acidity, liver and kidney failure, and many other complications. Her hair and nails also fell out due to malnutrition.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Umm Hashem al-Saqqa, another Gaza City resident, fears her 5-year-old son might face a similar fate, but is powerless to do anything about it.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Hashem suffers from iron deficiency anemia. He is constantly pale and lacks balance, and is unable to walk due to malnutrition,&#8221; she told AFP. &#8220;There is no food, no medicine, and no nutritional supplements. The markets are empty of food, and the government clinics and pharmacies have nothing.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Israeli officials have denied a hunger crisis in Gaza,<\/p>\n<p>Gaza City resident Mohammed al-Shawa, 65, said that Israel&#8217;s new military roadmap changes little as it already controls most of Gaza.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Israeli announcement about expanding military operations in Gaza is just talk for the media, because the entire Gaza Strip is occupied, and there is no safe area in Gaza,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>The U.N.&#8217;s Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairscb estimates that 69% of Gaza has now been either incorporated into one of Israel&#8217;s buffer zones, or is subject to evacuation orders.<\/p>\n<p>That number rises to 100% in the southern governorate of Rafah, where over 230,000 people lived before the war but which has now been entirely declared a no-go zone.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There is no food, no medicine, and the announcement of an aid distribution plan is just to distract the world and mislead global public opinion,&#8221; Shawa said, referring to reports of a new Israeli plan for humanitarian aid delivery that has yet to be implemented.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The reality is that Israel is killing Palestinians in Gaza by bombing, shooting, or through starvation and denial of medical treatment,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>Israeli officials consistently blame Hamas, which has long been designated a terrorist group by Israel, the U.S. and the European Union, for all the suffering in Gaza, accusing it of stealing humanitarian aid for its own purposes, which the group denies.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"embed embed--type-image is-image embed--float-none embed--size-medium\">\n<p>      <span class=\"img embed__content\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/assets2.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2025\/05\/06\/d93792c7-acd2-4779-af20-3d721c2a922f\/thumbnail\/620x413\/1691ec98de766d7f5d51fcad46124974\/gettyimages-2213134408.jpg?v=7c5acc180b39394767372ab4e02619ce#\" alt=\"Displaced Palestinians struggle for food amid deepening humanitarian crisis in Gaza \" height=\"413\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\" srcset=\"https:\/\/assets2.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2025\/05\/06\/d93792c7-acd2-4779-af20-3d721c2a922f\/thumbnail\/620x413\/1691ec98de766d7f5d51fcad46124974\/gettyimages-2213134408.jpg?v=7c5acc180b39394767372ab4e02619ce 1x, https:\/\/assets1.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2025\/05\/06\/d93792c7-acd2-4779-af20-3d721c2a922f\/thumbnail\/1240x826\/b468b5af40a99a12d763ff35fce59502\/gettyimages-2213134408.jpg?v=7c5acc180b39394767372ab4e02619ce 2x\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/span><figcaption class=\"embed__caption-container\">\n<p>                  <span class=\"embed__caption\">Displaced Palestinians, including children, crowd to receive hot meals distributed by charities in Khan Yunis, southern Gaza, on May 6, 2025.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>                  <span class=\"embed__credit\"><\/p>\n<p>                Abed Rahim Khatib\/Anadolu via Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>                          <\/span><br \/>\n              <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Israel&#8217;s hardline Minister of Defense Israel Katz said in mid-April, about a month into the blockade, that the policy aimed at pressuring Hamas to capitulate and release the hostages would not change. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Israel&#8217;s policy is clear: no humanitarian aid will enter Gaza, and blocking this aid is one of the main pressure levers preventing Hamas from using it as a tool with the population,&#8221; he said. &#8220;No one is currently planning to allow any humanitarian aid into Gaza, and there are no preparations to enable such aid.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>That was followed on April 23 by a flat denial from the Israeli Foreign Ministry of any hunger crisis in Gaza whatsoever.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Israel is monitoring the situation on the ground, and there is no shortage of aid in Gaza,&#8221; ministry spokesman Oren Marmorstein said in\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/OrenMarmorstein\/status\/1915019085122805891\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">a statement<\/a>\u00a0posted on social media, rejecting accusations that Israel was using food as a weapon of collective punishment against Gaza&#8217;s civilian population.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;According to Article 23 of the Fourth Geneva Convention, a side is not obliged to allow in aid if it is &#8216;likely to assist the military or economic efforts of the enemy,'&#8221; Marmorstein said. &#8220;Hamas hijacked the humanitarian aid to rebuild its terror machine.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Smotrich praised the new plan for Gaza on Monday and evoked a proposal previously floated by President Trump to displace the territory&#8217;s residents elsewhere.<\/p>\n<p>He said he would push for the 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