The media officer at the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA), Enas Hamdan, said that Israel rejected an urgent request submitted by the agency to evacuate those trapped under the rubble as a result of the genocide being committed in the northern Gaza Strip.

This came in statements made by Hamdan, at dawn today, while famine is worsening in the northern Gaza Strip due to the occupation's genocide and the policy of ethnic cleansing to which the citizens there are being subjected.

"Over the past two weeks, we have repeatedly warned that the tightening of the siege on Jabalia and the northern governorate in general is making the situation even more catastrophic, and the ongoing Israeli military operations are putting tens of thousands of civilians at imminent risk," the UN official said.

“Moreover, the military offensive in northern Gaza is cutting off people’s access to essentials for their survival, including water,” she added.

She warned that "Jabalia camp has been under siege for more than two weeks, and we are receiving information about families trapped in their homes, with water and food running out, and images coming from the camp showing residents running for their lives, with no safe place to go."

On the medical system, Hamdan said: “On October 18, two of the three remaining hospitals in the North Gaza Governorate were directly targeted (Al-Awda and the Indonesian Hospital), and these attacks exacerbate the humanitarian crisis in the North Gaza Governorate in a very worrying way.”

She continued: "In the Indonesian hospital, patients died due to power outages and lack of supplies, and since yesterday, an urgent request from the United Nations to reach northern Gaza to rescue the injured trapped under the rubble has not been implemented by the Israeli authorities."

The UN official called on Israel to "allow humanitarian and rescue teams to reach the sick, wounded and trapped without delay, because every minute of delay exacerbates the disaster."