1/ The IDF just released the largest forced displacement order since October of last year.
The Al Mawasi Concentration Camp is colored green. The current forced displacement order is colored in orange.
2/ US & EU media call the IDF's forced displacement orders "evacuation orders" and refer to the Al Mawasi concentration camp as the "humanitarian area."
Zoomed out map showing all of Gaza:
3/ The IDF expanded the Al Mawasi Concentration Camp from 47 sq km (13% of Gaza) to to 57 sq km (16% of Gaza).
The concentration camp is overpopulated, full of disease, and the IDF had already methodically destroyed the buildings in the area that was just added.
- really a rouge Colonel who did this?
- testing out the waters to see the international reaction?
- psychological warfare, with the leaflets and "clarification" planned together?
- something else?
A lot we don't know. Let's review what we do know.