Gaza Strip: 'Safe areas' shrink to 10%

Gaza - The Israeli occupation army has reduced so-called safe humanitarian zones in the Gaza Strip from 230 square kilometers since the start of the war to 35, 9.5 percent of the entire strip's area, the Gaza Civil Defense Authority said Saturday.اضافة اعلان

When the ground invasion began in early November, the Israeli army drove hundreds of thousands of civilians in northern Gaza to the south, which was declared "a safe humanitarian zone," it said in a statement.

These zones were 230 square kilometers, or 63 percent of the total areas of Gaza, including agricultural land and commercial, economic and service facilities with an area of ??120 square kilometers, it said.

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