Gaza Evacuation and Al-Shifa Tunnel: One Month of War
Israel orders the north Gaza evacuation in 24 hours and assaults Al-Shifa hospital, marking a month of war, ceasefire, and hostage negotiations.
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From the north Gaza evacuation to the Al-Shifa tunnel: one month of war
A million people had less than 24 hours to leave their homes. This was the order Israel issued to the population of northern Gaza before the start of the ground invasion, marking the beginning of a month characterized by evacuations, bombings, hospital raids, and a ceasefire. The open war trinc the October 7, 2023, attacks continues without end, with the unresolved question remaining: what was underneath Al-Shifa hospital?
What is happening in the Israel and Gaza war?
Israel warned residents of the northern Strip—approximately one million people—to leave in less than a day. Most did not interpret this as a humanitarian warning but rather as a precursor to a ground entry. This proved partly true: first came larger nighttime incursions, trinc by more continuous advances, with the Al-Rashid coastal road serving as the axis of a narrowing pincer movement.
The sequence of operations reported by Israel is overwhelming: more than 250 air strikes in 24 hours, precision bombings, armored brigades operating in Khan Yunis, naval commandos, air support for the Nahal Brigade, and attacks on Hezbollah positions in southern Lebanon. The language is that of a military manual, and the visual material does not hold back—columns of armored vehicles, flares over northern Gaza, interceptions of rockets over Tel Aviv—to the point where it is difficult to distinguish information from promotional video.
Al-Shifa: the tunnel that was supposed to justify the assault
The offensive on Gaza’s largest hospital was presented as the discovery that explained everything. Israel claims there is a command center under the complex and that a tunnel was found there, along with a vehicle with explosive traps and weapons—AK-47 rifles, RPG launchers, grenades, and sniper equipment. The entrance to the tunnel was shown in video.
The other version does not deny the discovery but questions its extent: a tunnel does not turn a hospital into a barracks. Amidst this tug-of-war, an Arab television broadcast allegedly exposed armed operatives inside a hospital in northern Gaza by mistake, according to circulating reports. The precision of the details is, a month later, a bargaining chip.
Humanitarian aid that never ends with rockets
The most repeated paradox concerns money. Gaza has received billions in international aid for years, yet the supply that never runs out is rockets. The argument has an easy answer and an uncomfortable one: those who launch it from the Israeli side use it to justify the offensive; those who listen from the other side remember that part of the population did not choose who fires from their neighborhood.
The detail sneaks into propaganda with almost caricatured literalness: rocket launchers buried and powered by electricity leaking from a mosque three meters away, or rockets found inside a girl’s bed. Each side chooses the object that suits them.
The ceasefire, hostages, and the point where everything stopped
The ceasefire brought what the bombings had not achieved: movement of people. Release of hostages, entry of hostages into Israeli territory, entry of humanitarian aid, and a speech by military spokesperson Daniel Hagari that circulated as part of the spectacle itself. One of those released, Uri Magidish, summarized her captivity in a circulating phrase: “twenty-three days that felt like years”.
The exchange left images of reunions and also the question that no one answered then: how many remained inside and with what the next round was negotiated. The ceasefire did not close the war. It only paused the count.
The zoo, the aircraft carrier, and the war of figures
Between bombing and bombing, two questions summarizing the confusion emerge. The first: a lion escaped from the Gaza zoo after the bombing of Deir al-Balah, leading many to wonder why a strip without water, electricity, or food needs a zoo. The second: where is the combat group captained by the USS Gerald Ford. No verifiable answer was given.
And underneath, structural distrust: some maintain that what arrives is manufactured material, that videos are made with AI, and that figures are cooked. An episode never fully closed—the decapitated babies incident—is used as proof that everything is a lie. The conclusion of this current is uncomfortable: if nothing can be verified, propaganda wins by exhaustion.
The front advances, tunnels multiply, and evacuations continue, but the month closes on the same unanswered question with which it peine. Al-Shifa was supposed to be the proof. By now, neither those who believe there was a barracks underneath nor those who deny it have the image that settles the discussion.
A million people had less than 24 hours to leave their homes. This was the order Israel issued to the population of northern Gaza before the start of the ground invasion, marking the beginning of a month characterized by evacuations, bombings, hospital raids, and a ceasefire. The open war trinc the October 7, 2023, attacks continues without end, with the unresolved question remaining: what was underneath Al-Shifa hospital?
What is happening in the Israel and Gaza war?
Israel warned residents of the northern Strip—approximately one million people—to leave in less than a day. Most did not interpret this as a humanitarian warning but rather as a precursor to a ground entry. This proved partly true: first came larger nighttime incursions, trinc by more continuous advances, with the Al-Rashid coastal road serving as the axis of a narrowing pincer movement.
The sequence of operations reported by Israel is overwhelming: more than 250 air strikes in 24 hours, precision bombings, armored brigades operating in Khan Yunis, naval commandos, air support for the Nahal Brigade, and attacks on Hezbollah positions in southern Lebanon. The language is that of a military manual, and the visual material does not hold back—columns of armored vehicles, flares over northern Gaza, interceptions of rockets over Tel Aviv—to the point where it is difficult to distinguish information from promotional video.
Al-Shifa: the tunnel that was supposed to justify the assault
The offensive on Gaza’s largest hospital was presented as the discovery that explained everything. Israel claims there is a command center under the complex and that a tunnel was found there, along with a vehicle with explosive traps and weapons—AK-47 rifles, RPG launchers, grenades, and sniper equipment. The entrance to the tunnel was shown in video.
The other version does not deny the discovery but questions its extent: a tunnel does not turn a hospital into a barracks. Amidst this tug-of-war, an Arab television broadcast allegedly exposed armed operatives inside a hospital in northern Gaza by mistake, according to circulating reports. The precision of the details is, a month later, a bargaining chip.
Humanitarian aid that never ends with rockets
The most repeated paradox concerns money. Gaza has received billions in international aid for years, yet the supply that never runs out is rockets. The argument has an easy answer and an uncomfortable one: those who launch it from the Israeli side use it to justify the offensive; those who listen from the other side remember that part of the population did not choose who fires from their neighborhood.
The detail sneaks into propaganda with almost caricatured literalness: rocket launchers buried and powered by electricity leaking from a mosque three meters away, or rockets found inside a girl’s bed. Each side chooses the object that suits them.
The ceasefire, hostages, and the point where everything stopped
The ceasefire brought what the bombings had not achieved: movement of people. Release of hostages, entry of hostages into Israeli territory, entry of humanitarian aid, and a speech by military spokesperson Daniel Hagari that circulated as part of the spectacle itself. One of those released, Uri Magidish, summarized her captivity in a circulating phrase: “twenty-three days that felt like years”.
The exchange left images of reunions and also the question that no one answered then: how many remained inside and with what the next round was negotiated. The ceasefire did not close the war. It only paused the count.
The zoo, the aircraft carrier, and the war of figures
Between bombing and bombing, two questions summarizing the confusion emerge. The first: a lion escaped from the Gaza zoo after the bombing of Deir al-Balah, leading many to wonder why a strip without water, electricity, or food needs a zoo. The second: where is the combat group captained by the USS Gerald Ford. No verifiable answer was given.
And underneath, structural distrust: some maintain that what arrives is manufactured material, that videos are made with AI, and that figures are cooked. An episode never fully closed—the decapitated babies incident—is used as proof that everything is a lie. The conclusion of this current is uncomfortable: if nothing can be verified, propaganda wins by exhaustion.
The front advances, tunnels multiply, and evacuations continue, but the month closes on the same unanswered question with which it peine. Al-Shifa was supposed to be the proof. By now, neither those who believe there was a barracks underneath nor those who deny it have the image that settles the discussion.
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