The Jerusalem Post reports: “A senior defense source on Wednesday said that Hamas is working hard to block Palestinian civilians from evacuating from Gaza City in northern Gaza despite the military’s two-week effort to encourage them to leave as the clock ticks down to an expected large-scale invasion.
To date, there are varying estimates between Israel and the UN, but around 60,000-80,000 Palestinians have evacuated southward from Gaza City since the IDF started to press for this.
Those numbers come from a total of around one million Palestinians currently present in the Gaza City area.
According to the defense source, Hamas wants to keep as many civilians as possible in Gaza City, both to serve directly as human shields from IDF attacks and also to place more diplomatic pressure on Israel to end the war in the event that Palestinian civilians are caught up in the crossfire.
In the senior defense official’s view, Hamas views the deaths of its own population as a strategic asset to play against Israel’s reputation globally…”
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