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Israel aims to displace one million Palestinians from Gaza City

Iran Press TV

Wednesday, 03 September 2025 7:03 PM

A senior Israeli military official said the occupying regime anticipates that a planned offensive in the Gaza Strip could displace up to one million Palestinians, as it prepares to seize Gaza City.

The official, from COGAT, the Israeli military body overseeing civil affairs in the Palestinian territories, said, "We saw a movement of people from the north to the south" in recent days.

"Until now, approximately 70,000" Gazans left the north, the official, who asked not to be named, told journalists.

Without providing a specific time frame, the Israeli official said that Israeli authorities expected "a million people" to move south.

According to the UN, at least 90 percent of Gaza's more than two million people have been displaced during the Israeli war on the besieged strip, many of them 10 times or more.

The military official's remarks come as Israel is pushing ahead with a plan to occupy the entire Gaza Strip, starting with Gaza City, the largest in the territory. The UN estimates that nearly one million people live in and around the northern city.

The Israeli official said that the occupying regime is planning "a humanitarian area" for the displaced people that would be formally announced in the coming days.

UN officials have warned that there are "no safe zones in Gaza", amid Israel's relentless air strikes on the enclave.

The newly designated area would reportedly extend from a cluster of refugee camps in central Gaza to the southern area of al-Mawasi and eastwards.

Al-Mawasi was declared "a humanitarian zone" in the early days of the war, but was repeatedly bombed by Israel.

Last month, UN human rights office spokesman Thameen al-Kheetan said that Palestinians in al-Mawasi had "little or no access to essential services and supplies, including food, water, electricity and tents."

Red Cross President Mirjana Spoljaric stressed that "it is impossible that a mass evacuation of Gaza City could ever be done in a way that is safe and dignified."

Israel's genocidal war on Gaza that started on October 7, 2023, has so far killed at least 63,746 Palestinians and injured 161,245 others, the health ministry said.