{"id":274739,"date":"2023-10-20T08:09:10","date_gmt":"2023-10-20T08:09:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=274739"},"modified":"2023-10-25T19:38:20","modified_gmt":"2023-10-25T19:38:20","slug":"report-israeli-settlers-almost-evacuate-entire-city-amid-continued-resistance-retaliation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=274739","title":{"rendered":"Report: Israeli settlers almost evacuate entire city amid continued resistance retaliation"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Press TV \u2013 Oct 19, 2023<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p><strong>Illegal Israeli settlers have reportedly almost evacuated the entire coastal city of Asqalan in the west of the occupied territories amid the Palestinian resistance&#8217;s continued retaliatory rocket strikes.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Reporting on Thursday, a correspondent with Iran&#8217;s al-Alam Arabic-language television network said more than 80 percent of the city&#8217;s settlers had left.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The city is almost empty and military forces have been deployed to its entrances,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Cradle<\/em>, an online news magazine, meanwhile, alleged in a post on X, formerly known as Twitter, that Israel had decided to officially evacuate the city, which has a population of around 137,000 illegal settlers.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">BREAKING: Israel decides to officially evacuate the city of Ashkelon \u2014 which has a population of around 137,000 settlers. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/JxmjGdQY6u\">pic.twitter.com\/JxmjGdQY6u<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; The Cradle (@TheCradleMedia) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheCradleMedia\/status\/1715043576122364317?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 19, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The city has been the target of retaliatory rocket barrages from the nearby Palestinian territory of the Gaza Strip since last October 7 when the Israeli regime launched a war against the besieged coastal sliver.<\/p>\n<p>So far, at least 3,859 Palestinians have been killed and some 13,500 others injured as a result of the Israeli military campaign.<\/p>\n<p>The war came after the Gaza-based resistance movements of Hamas and Islamic Jihad launched Operation al-Aqsa Storm against the regime in response to its campaign of aggression, violation, and bloodshed against Palestinians.<\/p>\n<p>The operation killed around 1,400 people and resulted in the captivity of at least 200 others.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this month, Abu Ubaida, spokesman for al-Qassam Brigades, which is Hamas&#8217; military wing, warned that the movement would soon bring Asqalan under fire as a means of retaliating against the Israeli regime&#8217;s incessant aerial assaults.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2023\/10\/19\/713052\/Palestine-Israel-settlers-evacuate-Asqalan-resitance-retaliation-Gaza-war-\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Israeli authorities have reportedly ordered the evacuation of the city of Ashkelon, which has a population of 137,000, following rocket barrages from nearby Gaza<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":274741,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[118,37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-274739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-7-10-gaza-war","category-Israel_Anti-Semitism_Zionism_and_US-UK_allies"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274739","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=274739"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274739\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":274742,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274739\/revisions\/274742"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/274741"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=274739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=274739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=274739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}