Israel is tightening the noose around Palestinians by forcibly transferring them into an increasingly narrow area no more than 10 percent of the Gaza Strip.
Even before the war, the Gaza Strip was one of the most densely populated places in the world, with 2.3 million Palestinians – two-thirds of them refugees from areas conquered by Zionist forces in 1948 – concentrated in 141 square miles.
Since October, two percent of Gaza’s population has been killed, and many more injured or gone missing. But nearly everyone has been displaced, many multiple times.
The Government Media Office in Gaza published a timeline demonstrating how Israeli evacuation orders beginning in November have forced Palestinians from the north of the territory to the south under the threat of death, pushing much of the population to a so-called humanitarian zone along the coast of southern Gaza. …..more
