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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
Emma Graham-Harrison & Jason Burke

Israeli grid maps make life in Gaza ‘macabre game of Battleships’, say aid workers

Close-up of a map of Gaza divided into many blocks, with some shaded in orange and orange arrows indicating they should be evacuated
Detail from one of the grid evacuation warnings posted by Lt Col Avichay Adraee of the IDF on social media. Photograph: @AvichayAdraee/X

Israel’s new grid system for targeted evacuation warnings in southern Gaza risks turning life in the territory into a “macabre game of Battleships”, aid workers have warned.

When Israel resumed its offensive in Gaza after a week-long ceasefire deal collapsed, it immediately signalled plans to intensify attacks on the south of the territory, in areas where Palestinian civilians had previously been urged to take shelter.

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