Israel army calls on hospitals, aid groups in north Gaza to prepare for evacuations

Displaced Palestinians fleeing northern Gaza ride with their belongings as they head south, amid an Israeli military operation, in Gaza City. (Reuters)
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Updated 21 August 2025
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Israel army calls on hospitals, aid groups in north Gaza to prepare for evacuations

JERUSALEM: The Israeli military on Thursday said it had informed medical personnel and aid groups in northern Gaza to start making evacuation plans ahead of a military offensive to seize the area.
Israeli military officials this week informed “medical officials and international organizations in the northern Gaza Strip... to prepare for the evacuation of the population to the southern Gaza Strip,” read the statement released by the military.
The announcement comes as the defense ministry this week approved an offensive to capture Gaza City and ordered the call-up of roughly 60,000 reservists, deepening fears the campaign will worsen the already catastrophic humanitarian crisis in the Gaza Strip.
According to the statement, the military had informed relevant parties in Gaza to begin making plans to relocate hospital equipment to the south.
“The officers emphasized to the medical officials that adjustments are being made to the hospital infrastructure in the south of the Strip to receive the sick and wounded, alongside an increased entry of necessary medical equipment,” said the statement.


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Trump says Gaza stabilization force is already running

  • “More and more countries are coming into it. They’re already in but they’ll send any number of troops that I ask them to send”

WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump on Monday said the International Stabilization Force for Gaza is already running and that more countries would be added.
“I think that, in a form, it’s already running,” Trump said in the Oval Office. “More and more countries are coming into it. They’re already in but they’ll send any number of troops that I ask them to send.”