Israeli troops cover their ears as an armored vehicle fires near the Gaza border.Jack Guez/Getty Images
- An Israeli order for more than one million people in northern Gaza to evacuate has expired.
- The UN said the evacuation order could have "devastating humanitarian consequences."
On Friday, Israel ordered the entire population of northern Gaza — more than one million people — to evacuate the region in just 24 hours.
Once that evacuation order expired Saturday morning, Israel extended it another six hours. That deadline has also now expired.
Israel designated an evacuation route to allow residents of northern Gaza to flee safely. Israel, however, then attacked that route on Saturday in an airstrike, Insider reported. The attack killed at least a dozen civilians, including women and children as young as two years old. The Israel Defense Forces said it was investigating the incident.
The Israeli air campaign on Gaza has so far killed at least 2,215 people, the Palestinian Health Ministry said.
In the week since the Palestinian militant group Hamas launched surprise attacks on southern Israel that killed at least 1,300 people, many of them civilians, the IDF has amassed a large ground force along Gaza's southern border.
Here's what that force looks like.