IDF Coordinator, Major General Rasan Alian: "While Hamas calls on the residents of Gaza City not to move south - its activists fear for their lives and are seeking to leave the Gaza Strip. Hamas's hypocrisy is in full swing."
The Government Activities Coordinator in the Territories reveals: The security system approved for a Hamas member - Gaza City Council member Anwar Atallah - to leave the Gaza Strip with his family and immigrate to a third country via Jordan.
Additionally, the Coordinator reveals: there are other senior Hamas officials who have submitted requests to leave the Strip or to allow their family members to leave - including: Muhammad Madahoun, a minister in the Hamas government; the family of Ismail Ashqar, head of Hamas's Foreign Affairs and Security Committee; and the family of Alaa al-Din Bata, head of a Hamas government committee.