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The United States has deployed a second aircraft carrier to the Mediterranean “to deter hostile actions against Israel or any efforts toward widening this war”, as residents of Gaza City fled south to escape an imminent Israeli ground attack in response to a murderous rampage by Hamas last weekend.
The US defence secretary, Lloyd Austin, said late on Saturday that the presence of the USS Eisenhower and its affiliated warships in the eastern Mediterranean signalled Washington’s “ironclad commitment to Israel’s security and our resolve to deter any state or non-state actor seeking to escalate this war”.
The Eisenhower joins the USS Ford carrier strike group, which arrived earlier in the week “as part of our effort to deter hostile actions against Israel or any efforts toward widening this war following Hamas’s attack”, Austin said.
Early on Sunday, Iran’s mission to the UN warned of “far-reaching consequences” if Israel’s “war crimes and genocide” were not stopped immediately. “The responsibility of which lies with the UN, the security council and the states steering the council toward a dead end.”
The Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, told troops massed in southern Israel that “the next stage is coming”, in a video shared by his office on Saturday. The Israeli military announced on Saturday evening that it was preparing “significant ground operations”.
For Gaza’s 2.3 million residents, there are limited options to find safety after Israel’s order to evacuate the northern end of the enclave. They are already running out of food, water, fuel and medical supplies, and face a terrifying escalation of bloodshed and misery if the fighting intensifies.
Some fear they will be killed on the road as they flee south. One civilian evacuation convoy was bombed on Friday afternoon, killing a reported 70 people, including women and children, whose bodies appear in images of the aftermath. They were on Salah-al-Din Road, a main thoroughfare Israel would declare safe less than an hour later.
The World Health Organization (WHO) condemned Israel’s order to evacuate 22 hospitals in northern Gaza which are treating more than 2,000 inpatients. The organisation said the evacuation “could be tantamount to a death sentence” for patients that include newborns in incubators and people in intensive care.
The UN’s under-secretary general for humanitarian affairs and emergency relief coordinator, Martin Griffiths, warned that the humanitarian situation in Gaza was “fast becoming untenable”.
The evacuation directive covers an area of 1.1 million residents, or about half the territory’s population. The Israeli military said “hundreds of thousands” of Palestinians had headed south so far. It had given Palestinians a six-hour window to travel safely within Gaza along two main routes that ended Saturday afternoon.
On Saturday, Hamas leader Ismail H
