Survivors: The devastation that befell the region is catastrophic and unprecedented
The occupation deliberately destroyed homes and infrastructure completely
The destruction is systematic and aims to make the area uninhabitable
The occupation wanted revenge on the camp, which was a symbol of the Stone Intifada and resistance
They destroyed water wells, stalls, the central and popular market, and all facilities and installations

Three days after the Israeli forces withdrew from Jabalia and its camp, and from Beit Hanoun, many horrific atrocities were revealed, committed by the occupation forces in the area that was declared a disaster zone, in view of the extent of the destruction that affected all elements of life there, from shelter centers and warehouses. Aid, water wells, streets, residential blocks, hospitals, and even medical equipment for kidney and radiology patients have been targeted to make life in the area impossible.

"Al Quds" Jabalia, camp and Beit Hanoun facilities.

Muhammad Munir, a young man in his twenties, from Jabalia camp, described the destruction that befell the camp as catastrophic and unprecedented, pointing out in an interview with Al-Quds.com that the occupation deliberately targeted homes and completely destroyed the infrastructure, making it an unviable area. for life. Mounir said: "The occupation destroyed our homes and shelter centers, and not even the water wells that used to supply us with water remained."

While Manal Al-Shalfouh, a resident of the camp, told Al-Quds.com: “The occupation forces deliberately destroyed the life that existed in the camp,” noting that the destruction was aimed at depriving the people of returning to live in the camp, even if they lived in tents.

Al-Shalfouh (54 years old) said: “Jabalia camp has been known since the first intifada as a symbol of resistance and revolution, and therefore the occupation wanted to destroy it completely, and nothing was left of it, whether houses, health clinics, or even the supply center, UNRWA headquarters, and schools.” Which were turned into shelter centres. The occupation wanted to take revenge on the camp, its people and the resistance fighters who made it suffer the calamities, after it failed to storm it the first time at the beginning of the ground war.” She added, “But as the youth of the camp wrote, we will rebuild it, and we will live in tents on top of the ruins of our homes.” Despite all this destruction."

In his interview with Al-Quds.com, citizen Waseem Abu Hamdan (61 years old) confirmed his commitment to living in his partially damaged house after he and his children and grandchildren succeeded in removing the rubble from inside the house.

Abu Hamdan said: "They destroyed water wells, hospitals, and the central and popular market, to deprive us of all the necessities of life, but they will not succeed in that. We will carry water from long distances to our homes, and revive them again, despite all this destruction."

Yesterday, the Emergency Committee tried to open most of the camp's streets by removing the rubble and destruction that befell them, after bulldozing them and destroying homes, facilities, and others.

The committee and popular committees worked to operate small water submersibles using solar energy, in an attempt to encourage the camp’s residents to return to it, as Al-Quds monitored.

This comes as the Municipal Emergency Committee in the northern Gaza Strip announced yesterday that the Jabalia area and the town of Beit Hanoun in the northern Gaza Strip have become “disaster areas” as a result of the ongoing Israeli war since the seventh of last October.

The head of the committee, Naji Sarhan, said in a press conference held in the northern Gaza Strip, “The Jabalia camp and the town of Beit Hanoun in the northern Gaza Strip have become disaster areas, as the Israeli occupation army destroyed 50,000 housing units and bulldozed the drainage networks and roads in most of the municipalities in the northern Gaza Strip.” Gaza".

Sarhan explained that "the occupation during the war destroyed 35 water wells, schools and facilities of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Refugees (UNRWA)," stressing that the northern Gaza Strip suffers from "difficult humanitarian conditions," as residents suffer as a result of the lack of entry of aid, medicine, and fuel. He warned of a repeat of the war. The "famine" that resulted in the death of dozens of citizens, including children and the elderly, in the past months, calling on the United Nations and international organizations to "urgently intervene to deliver aid to the Gaza Strip urgently."

On the other hand, the Ministry of Health in Gaza said in a statement, “The occupation forces committed 4 massacres in the Gaza Strip, including 60 martyrs and 220 injuries to hospitals within 24 hours,” noting that the number of victims of the Israeli aggression on the Strip had risen to 36,439 martyrs. And 82 thousand and 627 infected people.

Later, yesterday, 4 citizens were martyred and others were injured as a result of a bombing that targeted a group of citizens in the Al-Zawaida area in the central Gaza Strip. A girl was also martyred and others were injured as artillery shelling continued in the Al-Sabra neighborhood, south of Gaza City. Two citizens were martyred as a result of an Israeli bombing on the Abu area. Halawa, east of the city of Rafah, and 4 citizens were martyred in an Israeli raid on a house in the Nuseirat camp in the central Gaza Strip.

Israeli aircraft bombed the Brazil neighborhood, south of the city of Rafah in the Gaza Strip, as well as a house in the Shawa Square area in the Al-Daraj neighborhood, east of Gaza City.

The Al-Qassam Brigades, the military arm of the Hamas movement, announced in a statement that it had bombed the Israeli army headquarters in the “Netzarim” axis with a 114 mm short-range rocket system.

Al-Qassam confirmed that it had targeted a D9 military bulldozer with a Yassin 105 shell near the Al-Amal Association in the Yabna camp in Rafah. It also targeted two D9 military bulldozers with two Tandom shells on Salah al-Din Gate Street in Rafah, and targeted a Merkava tank. An Israeli missile fired "Al-Yassin 105" in the vicinity of the university college, south of the Al-Sabra neighborhood, south of Gaza City.

For its part, the Al-Quds Brigades, the military wing of the Islamic Jihad Movement, confirmed in a statement that its fighters were engaged in fierce clashes with soldiers and occupation vehicles in the areas of advance in the city of Rafah, confirming that they had bombed with mortar shells a position of occupation vehicles and soldiers in the vicinity of the Al-Abd Jabr and Al-Brahma areas in the Yabna camp, south of the city of Rafah. Amid continuing clashes in the area, an Israeli Merkava tank was targeted with two RPG shells south of Khawla School in Rafah, confirming that the tank caught fire.

On the other hand, the Israeli newspaper "Haaretz" quoted the Israeli army as saying that 46 soldiers had been injured in the battles in the Gaza Strip since last Thursday, 4 of whom were in serious condition.

In another context, the Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) announced that all of the agency’s 36 shelters in the city of Rafah, south of the Gaza Strip, are empty of displaced persons, due to Israeli military operations, stressing that the Israeli military operations have caused the displacement of thousands of families, while the occupation attack has continued since May 7 last.