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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Peter Beaumont in Jerusalem

‘We can’t ignore these people’: huge surge in numbers fleeing Gaza City

Lines of Palestinians fleeing on Salah al-Din Street in Bureij, Gaza Strip
The scale of the movement of people fleeing Gaza prompted the IDF to extend the period of the ‘safe corridor’ by an extra hour. Photograph: Hatem Moussa/AP

On Salah al-Din, the broad main highway that runs along the Gaza Strip, the trickle of those fleeing on foot from Israel’s war against Hamas has become a torrent, with about 15,000 people attempting to make the perilous journey on Wednesday.

Under white flags, and carrying a few possessions mainly in carrier bags, exhausted parents led their children on Wednesday or carried them under the watch of Israeli tanks as the sounds of war rang out in the near distance.

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