Israel’s military has informed the United Nations that the entire population of northern Gaza should relocate to the southern half of the territory within 24 hours, the U.N. spokesman, Stéphane Dujarric, said late on Thursday night, adding that such a movement — involving over one million people — would lead to “devastating humanitarian consequences.”

“The same order applied to all U.N. staff and those sheltered in U.N. facilities — including schools, health centers and clinics,” Mr. Dujarric said.

The U.N. was told that the marker dividing the north from south was Wadi Gaza, the statement said.

The U.N. Security Council is scheduled to hold an emergency meeting on Friday afternoon in a closed consultation format

    • Potato_in_my_anus@lemmy.ml
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      The chaos with the with the evacuations is that everybody’s driving in the same direction, and in Palestine, people don’t have any vehicles.

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        1million+ people on foot in a war zone all heading in one direction on war torn infrastructure will be a disaster even without cars.

        Don’t forget that the shelling has already been going on for awhile now.

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        Yes, it’s the vehicles that are the problem and not a bunch of panicking people who don’t know where to go or what to do.

        I’m sure threat of imminent death at the hands of people who think they’re baby-killers is probably not affecting them at all.

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          Come on man, use some critical thinking and context here. He clearly is not saying that cars some kind of an issue here. He was making an idle point about traffic jams in the US with hurricane evacuations and how that doesn’t apply in this situation. He’s not even making a value judgement on anything here.

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            They made a direct comparison. They placed blame on how vehicles are the main issue, and how Palestinians dont have them.

            Maybe use some critical thinking skills yourself.

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              Who did? I was responding to someone who brought up that issue, so my response was related to their point and my comment was mostly intended to focused on how the lack of certain resources could negatively impact those who are dependent on those things.

              Otoh, the the difference in travel modalities makes a big difference in what problems there are and my comparison to hurricane evacuations obviously lacked in that respect. It’s only natural someone would point out that limitation of my comparison.

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        They do actually! A journalist was talking about it on Radio-Canada earlier today, he’s visited twice since 2017 (having come back a couple of weeks ago) and noted the contrast between fairly recent cars and horse carts using the same streets!

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        True… probably actually a benefit that they don’t have cars as they’re less efficient than just walking. But for those who physically aren’t able to walk for hours straight (depending on how far they need to go), some alternative mobility is needed.

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            Nah dude, they have a point actually.

            Ive lived through an evac or two thanks to some years spent in Florida during hurricane season.

            A standard car is limited in the ways it can travel, it needs road or something approximating road so that it can travel without destroying the wheels, tires or undercarriage. If you put too many cars on a road there’s only so much distance that’ll be travelled in a period of time. Similar to a DDoS.

            Walking on the other hand, well people can really just walk anywhere. You don’t need roads you just need a decent set of footwear and it’s difficult for walking to get backed up because you can just walk around someone.

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            Flying off the handle because someone pointed out that cars aren’t universally useful? Don’t think it’s the time or place for that tbh.