On Wednesday, local authorities declared Beit Lahia, north of the Gaza Strip, a “disaster city” due to the genocidal war and the Israeli siege, and launched an “urgent distress call” that included 5 demands to “save what can be saved.”

The Beit Lahia municipality said that the city's residents are suffering a "humanitarian catastrophe" as a result of "the ongoing war of extermination and the siege imposed on the city."

She explained that the city has become "without food, without water, without hospitals, without first aid, without civil defense, without doctors, without services (sewage and waste) and without communications."

She continued: "Accordingly, we declare Beit Lahia a disaster-stricken city, and we issue an urgent distress call for the necessity of saving whatever can be saved in the city that is being subjected to killing and genocide."

The municipality directed 5 demands to the international community and international and humanitarian organizations, which are: “Pressure the occupation to stop the genocide in the city of Beit Lahia.”

She added: "And opening a safe corridor to bring in all medical supplies, food and fuel to save the health and service system."

She added: "And bringing in civil defense and ambulance equipment to work on retrieving the martyrs and the injured from under the rubble, especially after the occupation committed a number of massacres against citizens."

The municipality also called for "the entry of fuel needed to operate water wells, desalination plants and sewage pumps", as well as "the entry of heavy machinery to open roads and remove rubble, to facilitate the movement of citizens, ambulances and civil defense vehicles".