#Breaking: #Palestinians flee northern #Gaza after #Israel orders #mass #evacuation with ground #attack looming

Palestinians scrambled to flee northern Gaza after Israel’s military urged about 1 million people to leave for the territory’s south ahead of an expected ground invasion — despite warnings from the UN that evacuating nearly half of Gaza’s population would be calamitous.

But families in Gaza faced what they saw as a no-win decision to leave or stay, with no safe ground anywhere. On Friday, Hamas’ media office said warplanes struck some of the cars fleeing south, killing more than 70 people.

Fayza Hamoudi said she and her family were driving from their home in the north when the strike hit some distance ahead on the road and two vehicles burst into flames.

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