By Oct 20, 2024
Dozens of people were killed in Beit Lahiya on Saturday as Israeli warplanes razed entire residential blocks just days after the UN warned that tens of thousands of Palestinians are “in grave danger” in northern Gaza.
Reality for Palestinians throughout Gaza, where more than 43,000 people have been killed since last October, with thousands more dead and uncounted under the rubble, is becoming more brutal by the day.
“Supplies essential for people’s survival and humanitarian assistance are blocked at every turn,” a senior UN official told the Security Council this week.
Joyce Msuya, the acting UN relief chief, added on Wednesday that the Security Council and all UN member states “must exert all their influence” to ensure the respect of international humanitarian law.
“The atrocities in Gaza must end, but this cannot happen through words; it must happen through action – urgent, unequivocal action,” she added.
Three prominent Palestinian human rights groups – Al-Haq, Al Mezan and the Palestinian Center for Human Rights – said this week that civilians in northern Gaza are “are being punished for continuing to refuse to follow Israel’s unlawful forcible displacement orders.”
With no safe place to go, Palestinians in Gaza’s north are fearful that if they flee, they will never be able to return.
Israel’s plan to resettle Gaza by illegally transferring its own civilian population to and annexing the north “is becoming clearer with every day that passes,” the Palestinian human rights groups said.
Demonstrating that point, several Israeli lawmakers from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud party plan to participate in a conference titled “Preparing to Resettle Gaza” to be held on Monday.
Palestinians who are trying to flee from Jabaliya, Beit Lahiya and Beit Hanoun in northern Gaza, or are moving around in search of food or safety, “are being shot at and killed by Israeli snipers, quadcopters and drones,” the rights groups said.
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As Israel’s siege on north Gaza continues, how are people coping?
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Israel attacked Beit Lahiya on Saturday, hitting residential buildings. At least 87 people have been killed or missing, according to the Government Media Office.
Israel laid siege to north Gaza more than two weeks ago and has been attacking everyone left in the area ferociously since, resulting in the deaths of many civilians.
Here is what you need to know about Israel’s ongoing assault in north Gaza:
What is Israel doing to north Gaza?
Israel launched the assault in northern Gaza on October 6, claiming it aimed to stop Hamas from regrouping.
The Israeli army’s Arabic spokesperson, Avichay Adraee, said Hamas had established “terrorist infrastructure in your region, exploiting the population, shelters, and health facilities as a human shield”.
Israel demanded the evacuation of civilians from large swaths, including Jabalia, Beit Lahiya and Beit Hanoon, calling on residents to flee south, including to the already overcrowded “humanitarian zone” in al-Mawasi.
Israel has attacked humanitarian zones several times, prompting the United Nations to say repeatedly that no place in the enclave is safe.
“We feel like we’re bodies without souls. The bombardment was intense and merciless around our house, disregarding the presence of children and women inside,” one northern Gaza resident told Al Jazeera. “Bodies are left in the streets. They’ve become food for dogs.”
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