The world should know that the evacuation orders that made headlines in 2023 continue under the cover of media blackout and lapsed attention spans.

This image shows displaced people waiting in panic, fearing the evacuation warning for the Orphan Camp near the Abu Asi entrance in al Bureij camp, central Gaza.

According to local Arabic reporting and testimony I have received from Gaza, this warning affects more than 3,000 families, most of them children who have lost a father or both parents. My friends in Gaza have been able to house 61 women and 219 children, but this is only a fraction of those who need new shelter.

Three thousand families. This should be front-page news.

Instead, I have spent hours searching and have found no English language coverage of this specific evacuation. Not a report. Not a headline. Not even a brief mention.

Evacuation orders in Gaza are instruments of terror. They force those already displaced to flee again, often into streets with no shelter, food, clean water, medicine, electricity, or safety. They turn a map into a weapon. Amid the so-called ceasefire, the genocide persists.

And when the displaced are orphaned children, widowed mothers, the sick, the injured, and the elderly, silence is complicity.

Gaza’s orphaned children are still being forced to move from one place of danger to another while the media looks away.

The media blackout is how a genocide becomes normalized.  

Spread the word. Send this to journalists. Ask your MP, Congressperson, or elected representative why evacuation orders affecting thousands of orphaned and displaced families in Gaza are not being treated as urgent. Demand pressure to stop ethnic cleansing and to end the siege.

I have a longer article on this coming out in July, but meanwhile Abu Asi is being evacuated by force, under threat of annihilation. If anyone can suggest a way to get the word out sooner, please let me know.