‘We don’t know what to do’: People in Gaza caught between Hamas order and IDF tanks

Israel warns people to leave before expected ground assault but Hamas says to stay put, warning of second Nakba

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On Friday morning, hundreds of thousands of people in Gaza found themselves facing another terrible dilemma.

Should they follow the 400,000 friends, relatives and neighbours who had already fled their homes amid Israel’s retaliatory airstrikes and its warning that almost half of the enclave’s 2.3 million people should evacuate the area for their “own safety” ahead of the expected ground assault?