PALESTINE
Thu 11 Jul 2024 9:18 am - Jerusalem Time
Under the threat of artillery shelling, raids, and the destruction of shelter centers...Gaza is witnessing the largest wave of displacement
The displacement operations, which constituted a cornerstone of the genocidal war in the Gaza Strip, continued, and yesterday the occupation forces dropped leaflets calling on the residents of Gaza City to leave and warning them of more and more severe levels of killing, starvation and destruction, which prompted large numbers of citizens to flee again, in light of the violent bombing operations that did not stop and caused... Dozens of martyrs and wounded continued, while news continued to circulate about the repercussions of the famine striking across the Gaza Strip due to the occupation closing the crossings and preventing the entry of aid, which exacerbated the suffering of thousands, especially children, who were victims of the famine, which reached tragic levels.
Yesterday, occupation aircraft dropped leaflets calling on residents of Gaza City to flee to Deir al-Balah and al-Zawaida in the central Gaza Strip, and specifying paths that the occupation army claims are “safe corridors” for displacement.
The city witnessed the second largest wave of displacement, according to some sources.
The occupation’s demands on the people of Gaza were not a new matter, as it had previously issued calls and carried out displacement operations under bombardment of citizens from dozens of locations in the Gaza Strip, only to resume their displacement again in a displacement movement that had not stopped for nine months, and included massacres that targeted the displaced as they crossed what the Israeli army had designated for them as corridors. Or "safe" areas.
Spokesman for the UN Secretary-General, Stephane Dujarric, said that Israel's instructions to residents of Gaza City to leave will exacerbate collective suffering.
In press statements, Dujarric stressed the need to protect civilians in Gaza, whether they are forced to flee or remain in their homes, he said.
The Ministry of Interior in the Gaza Strip said, "The occupation's leaflets calling on citizens to move to the south come within the framework of the psychological pressure and terrorism it is exercising toward them."
She called on the residents of Gaza City not to "respond to the means of pressure and psychological terrorism that the Israeli occupation is exercising on them and demanding that they leave their homes and head south."
The Ministry stressed that "what the occupation claims about the existence of safe corridors for citizens are corridors of death and of killing them on the side of the road, as happened over the previous months."
She added, "The occupation army is trying to publish some pictures of the passage of displaced people with the aim of deceiving citizens and luring them," stressing that "there is no safe place in all the governorates of the Strip, from north to south."
The new chapter of displacement for the people of Gaza came after the occupation army once again invaded many of the city’s neighborhoods and the fierce resistance it faced there left dozens of its members killed or wounded.
The occupation committed massacres in Gaza City and carried out widespread destruction during the past days.
The Palestinian Red Crescent said that its crews receive dozens of humanitarian distress calls from Gaza City, but that its ambulance crews are unable to reach them due to the danger of the targeted areas and the intensity of the bombing there.
He explained in a statement that the conditions of the population in Gaza City are extremely tragic, as the occupation forces continue to target residential areas and work to displace citizens from their places of residence and shelter centers.
The Red Crescent announced the day before yesterday that all of its medical points and emergency clinics in the Gaza Governorate were out of service due to the occupation’s forced evacuations from various areas in the governorate, where the medical points and clinics are located.
Yesterday, the occupation forces carried out massive destruction and blow-up operations of homes in the Al-Shujaiya neighborhood, east of Gaza City, and exhumed graves and bulldozed them before withdrawing from that area.
The occupation forces also blew up residential buildings in the Al-Mughraqa area, north of the Nuseirat camp in the central Gaza Strip, after artillery shelling.
Civil Defense spokesman in the Gaza Strip, Mahmoud Basal, said that initial estimates indicate that there are more than 30 martyrs in the street extending from the Tayaran Junction to the Industrial Zone, west of Gaza City, in addition to a number of wounded in the street alleys, “bleeding until this moment.”
He pointed out that dozens of appeals arrived from citizens in the Tal al-Hawa, industrial and aviation areas, reporting the presence of martyrs in the streets.
The Ministry of Health in Gaza said yesterday afternoon that the occupation forces committed 4 massacres in the Gaza Strip, including 52 martyrs and 208 wounded who arrived in hospitals within 24 hours.
The Ministry indicated that the toll of the Israeli aggression on the Gaza Strip had risen to 38,295 martyrs and 88,241 injured since October 7, 2023.
Four children were killed in an Israeli bombing that targeted a house in the Nuseirat camp, while three displaced people died as a result of a fire that broke out inside a tent in the town of Abasan, east of Khan Yunis.
The occupation army continued to target shelter centers and bomb a school in Khan Yunis, causing dozens of casualties.
Commenting on this, European Union foreign policy official Joseph Borrell said that he condemns any violation of international law, demanding that those responsible must be held accountable.
Borrell added, "A ceasefire must be reached immediately to provide relief for hundreds of civilians, free all hostages, and provide humanitarian aid."
The government media office in Gaza indicated that “the occupation continues, for the 65th day, its crime of preventing the entry of aid and medical materials,” calling on the international community to put an end to the policy of starvation and deepening famine in the Gaza Strip, noting that “the escalation of the starvation policy in the Gaza Strip will have a disastrous impact on the entire region.” ".
Preventing the entry of aid led to the exacerbation of the famine and the death of dozens of citizens - especially children - while thousands face death from starvation.
The Indonesian and Nasser complex is on the verge of collapse
Doctors Without Borders said in a statement that the lack of supplies and the influx of patients are pushing the Nasser complex in Khan Yunis to the brink of collapse.
The Gaza European Hospital was closed following Israeli evacuation orders, causing Nasser Hospital to be overcrowded with mass casualties and wounded, in light of a severe shortage of medical supplies facing Nasser Hospital, which threatens to halt basic health care.
The director of the Indonesian hospital warned that the hospital would be out of service due to the lack of fuel. He said, "A few hours and the hospital will stop working due to the lack of fuel," according to what was reported by Al Jazeera.
He added, "We warn that patients' lives are in danger, and we call on international organizations to intervene to prevent a disaster."
Hospitals being out of service and the collapse of health services exacerbate the suffering of the sick and wounded and a wide range of citizens, especially pregnant women and new babies, due to the lack of any services or care for these two groups as well, in addition to the lack of any necessities of life and health care for newborns.
Dr. Hossam Abu Safiya, Director of Kamal Adwan Hospital, said that large numbers of children in Kamal Adwan Hospital suffer from malnutrition, and that 26 citizens were martyred as a result of malnutrition in the northern Gaza Strip during the past months, including 6 children.
He pointed out that 400 children suffer from symptoms of malnutrition due to the ban on the introduction of food supplies, and that a significant deterioration has been recorded in the health of newborns in light of the absence of the necessary life-saving supports and materials.
On the ground, the occupation army admitted that one of its soldiers (from the Magellan unit) had been killed during battles in the central Gaza Strip, while the Yedioth Ahronoth newspaper confirmed that two Israeli soldiers from the Alexandroni Brigade were seriously injured by the explosion of an explosive device during battles in the Al-Sabra neighborhood in Gaza City.
The "Al-Qassam" Brigades announced that they had targeted 3 Israeli tanks with two stun charges and a "Al-Yassin 105" shell in the Tal Al-Hawa neighborhood, southwest of Gaza City.
It indicated that its fighters "managed to detonate an anti-personnel explosive device in a foot engineering force, killing and wounding its members near the Abu Bakr al-Siddiq Mosque in the Brazil neighborhood, east of the city of Rafah, south of the Gaza Strip."
Al-Qassam also announced that its fighters were able to snipe a soldier in the Al-Sinaa area in the Tal Al-Hawa neighborhood.
For its part, the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades said that it bombed with mortar shells crowds of Israeli occupation forces in the Yabna camp, south of the city of Rafah.
The "Jerusalem Brigades" said that it blew up three Israeli military vehicles with ground bombs planted in advance in the Tal al-Hawa neighborhood in Gaza City, and bombed the occupation forces penetrating into the Tal al-Hawa neighborhood west of Gaza City with mortar shells, and caused direct casualties among the occupation ranks.
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Under the threat of artillery shelling, raids, and the destruction of shelter centers...Gaza is witnessing the largest wave of displacement