The Israeli army on Saturday issued new evacuation orders for Palestinians in large areas of the northern Gaza Strip, in preparation for attacking the area under the pretext of Palestinian rockets fired towards Israel.

The IDF has ordered the evacuation of residential areas in northwest Gaza, where it said Palestinian fighters had fired rockets towards the nearby town of Ashkelon. Colonel Avichay Adraee, the IDF’s Arabic-language spokesman,

United Nations aid operations in Gaza ground to a halt on Monday after Israel issued new evacuation orders on Sunday for Deir Al-Balah in the central Gaza Strip where the U.N. operations center was located,