smoke rises in the distance, buildings in the foreground
A picture taken from Sderot shows smoke plumes rising above buildings during an Israeli strike on the northern Gaza Strip.
  • Video shows civilians killed as they fled using a designated 'evacuation route' in Gaza.
  • Israel had said it would not attack the evacuation route.
  • The dead included women and children, some as young as two years old.

The Israeli military told over a million residents to flee northern Gaza, urging civilians to defy Hamas' order to stay if they wanted to be safe. It then killed scores of them in an airstrike late Friday night, according to videos from the scene that have now been verified by multiple international media outlets and testimony from an eyewitness who spoke to Insider.