- An army spokesman wrote in Arabic on X that they would not attack an escape route marked on a map until then.
- Abbas said he “strongly rejects the expulsion of our people from the Gaza Strip,” as this would amount to a “second Nakba.”
- With the term “Nakba” (Catastrophe), Abbas was referring to the flight of around 760,000 Palestinians after the founding of Israel in 1948.
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