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Civilians in parts of Gaza are told to evacuate as Israel's renewed bombardment continues for a second day.
Two days into the resumption of military operations in Gaza, it’s becoming clearer how Israel says it intends to avoid civilian casualties - which are once again rising rapidly.

Israel is no longer calling on Palestinians to move to al-Mawasi, a thin strip of territory along the Mediterranean coast which officials for weeks described as the only “safe zone.”

“Unfortunately, we’ve not seen huge amounts of people going there,” Major Peter Lerner told me this afternoon, “so we are adjusting our operational assessment of the situation on the ground.”

During his visit to Israel on Thursday, US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken urged Israel to take steps to protect civilians, including “clearly and precisely designating areas….where they can be safe.”

But the new concept is probably best described as clearly designated un-safe areas, with Israel’s new grid map of the Gaza Strip showing areas where Israel intends to carry out military operations on any given day.

Mark Regev, a senior advisor to Israel’s prime minister, said Israel’s messaging – including leaflets, phone calls and online messages – would mean that Gazans would always know where to go to be safe.

“News travels fast,” he told journalists. “The minute one person hears it, it goes to another family and then another family.”

But with airstrikes still happening up and down the Gaza Strip, Gazans feel that no-where is genuinely safe.

Maj Peter Lerner said Israel would continue to hit other “high quality targets”.