(Independent-UK) Ezz Al Din Abu Eisha - Israel's Security Cabinet has approved a plan to occupy Gaza City. According to Israel's Channel 14, the plan will have three phases: first, allowing increased humanitarian aid to enter Gaza City, followed by the relocation of its residents to camps in the south of Gaza, and finally, a full blockade of the city, which will be placed under the control of the military. Gaza residents anxiously keep up with the details of the planned takeover of the city. Some Palestinians are busy making their own plans. Waseem has already begun making arrangements for a shelter in southern Gaza, and is working around the clock to get it set up. "Israel is going ahead with its war plans for Gaza, and as the sole provider of a family of 13, I have to protect them," he says. Waseem has set up three tents on a plot of land in the south, with a separate toilet, a water tank, and some basic necessities. "I hesitated before making this decision, but I concluded in the end that complying with Israeli orders might save my family's life," he explains. Netanyahu has set Oct. 7 as the deadline to evacuate Gaza City completely of its civilian residents. Tayseer says, "The army has set the deadline of Oct. 7 in the hope that it will make the people of Gaza forget the 2023 attacks, and that this will become the anniversary of our new Nakba, because it will take from us the whole of Gaza City." Ismail al-Thawabta, director of Hamas's Government Media Office in Gaza, says, "Israel is trying to change the consciousness of Gazans by linking the occupation of Gaza with the anniversary of the [Oct. 7] 'al-Aqsa Flood' operation." Tayseer says the IDF is coming to destroy and level the place. He predicts, "We will have no street to walk on, and no building to defend," imploring Hamas leaders to save Gaza before it is too late and announce the "zero hour" for exit.
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