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Ethnic cleansing in northern Gaza?

The mysterious "Badger" over at Missing Links reports today on "The next step in Gaza: Forced evacuations of residential districts." From this morning's New York Times:

The Israeli Army also dropped thousands of leaflets into some
residential districts warning inhabitants to evacuate their homes.
Because of “the activity of terrorist groups,” the leaflets said in
Arabic, the army “is obliged to respond quickly and work from inside
your residential area.”

Earlier this year in March, Missing Links shared media reports of an Israeli plan to remove "tens of thousands of Palestinians
from the northern Gaza Strip"
:

The televised report cited high-level security sources as saying Barak intends to plan for the removal of tens of thousands of Palestinians from the northern Gaza Strip, namely from the region that the resistance uses for the launch of these rockets, and to move them toward Gaza City and to confine them there. The Israeli reporter added that Barak is turning to legal advisers in the Defence Ministry, in order to obtain legal authorization for the removal of the Palestinian civilians. Barak is also asking Professor David Friedmann, minister of Israeli Affairs [Justice Minister], who supports toughening of penalties on Gaza to end the launching of rockets, in order to obtain his authorization to begin execution of the plan.

The reporter said that once [or if] the plan becomes operational, it would start immediately: In the first stage there would be a drop of leaflets advising residents to leave their homes, in addition to special radio announcements in Arabic directed to the residents, and in the event residents didn't obey the warnings, the occupation army would begin bombing the inhabited areas, in order to compel them to leave their homes and go to Gaza City.

Has this plan begun?

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