WHILE the Israeli regime escalated its ground invasion of Gaza City yesterday, around one million Palestinians are resisting the occupying force’s attempts to forcibly displace them from their homeland. The Gaza Government Media Office announced that about one million Palestinians in Gaza City and northern Gaza are refusing or are unable to be forcibly displaced to overcrowded ‘safe zones’ in southern Gaza. ‘More than one million Palestinians remain rooted in Gaza City and the northern Gaza Strip, holding onto their land and homes, and categorically rejecting displacement to the south, despite the savage bombardment and genocidal war carried out by the Israeli occupation,’ it said. The statement highlighted that the population of Gaza City and northern Gaza ‘exceeds 1.3 million people’, most of whom have already been displaced from their neighbourhoods to central and coastal areas. The ministry said Israeli forces have been preventing WHO teams from using alternative routes to deliver fuel to hospitals in Gaza City and other northern areas.