Egypt Says Describing Displacement of Palestinians as Voluntary is 'Nonsense'

Alsharq Tribune- Rahma Otify

Egyptian Foreign Minister Badr Abdelatty said on Saturday that describing the displacement of Palestinians as voluntary is "nonsense".

Israel earlier called on Gaza City residents to leave for the south, as its forces advance deeper into the enclave’s largest urban area.

Israeli forces have been carrying out an offensive on the suburbs of the northern city for weeks after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ordered the military to capture it, said Reuters.

Netanyahu says Gaza City is a Hamas stronghold and capturing it is necessary to defeat the Palestinian group, whose October 2023 attack on Israel sparked the war.

The assault threatens to displace hundreds of thousands of Palestinians sheltering there from nearly two years of fighting.

Before the war, around a million people, nearly half of Gaza's population, lived in the city.