Xinhua Middle East news summary at 2200 GMT, April 23

JERUSALEM -- Israel on Tuesday ordered residents of the city of Beit Lahia in the northern Gaza Strip to evacuate "urgently" ahead of a new planned onslaught in the area.

Avichay Adraee, a spokesman for the Israel Defense Forces (IDF), wrote in Arabic on the social media platform X that the army has an imminent plan to "act with great force" against militant infrastructures in the area. (Israel-Order-Gaza Evacua