‘Hell’ in North Gaza as 400,000 People Trapped

GAZA STRIP (KI) -- Palestinian health officials said Wednesday that Israeli strikes overnight in northern and central Gaza martyred at least 18 people.

The strikes hit the Nuseirat and Bureij refugee camps in the central part of the Gaza Strip, as well as the Jabaliya refugee camp in northern Gaza.
The fighting and repeated Israeli evacuation orders have left Palestinian civilians with nowhere to go, the United Nations said.
Philippe Lazzarini, the head of the UN Palestinian refugee Agency (UNRWA), said on X that at least 400,000 people are trapped in northern Gaza.
Lazzarini said many people are refusing to follow evacuation orders “because they know too well that no place anywhere in Gaza is safe.”
“With almost no basic supplies available, hunger is spreading and deepening again,” he said. “Northern #Gaza: no end to hell.”
The Gaza health ministry said the Palestinian death toll in the besieged territory has reached 42,010. Palestinian officials also said more than 97,000 people had been wounded since the Israeli aggression began a year ago.
Israel’s invasion has decimated Gaza’s health sector, forcing most of its hospitals to shut down and leaving the rest only partially functioning.
Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor warned that an unprecedented humanitarian catastrophe is imminent as the Israeli occupation regime tightens its siege on the Jabaliya refugee camp and Beit Lahia in the northern Gaza Strip for the fourth consecutive day. 
“Israel is accelerating the pace of its genocide against the Palestinians there by carrying out mass and planned killings, as well as widespread forced displacements,” said the rights group.
“The international community, led by the United Nations, must act swiftly and decisively to save tens of thousands of residents who are being subjected to one of the most violent campaigns of genocide that the Gaza Strip has ever witnessed,” Euro-Med insisted.
Israeli occupation forces have intensified their siege of the Jabaliya camp and the surrounding neighborhoods, including Tal Al-Zaatar, Al-Sikka, Beit Hanoun and Beit Lahia. The Israeli forces have also taken up positions in the west of the Gaza Strip, advancing as far as the Jaffa Cemetery and the Tawam Junction.
With air strikes, fire belts and artillery shelling — bombing homes over the heads of their residents — the Israeli occupation forces have been in large parts of northern Gaza since Saturday evening.
Dozens of people have been killed and injured as a result of this ongoing invasion.
“Initial reports confirmed that five Palestinian citizens — including a woman, a man and his son — were killed by the occupation forces for trying to escape the Jabalia camp while waving white flags,” said Euro-Med. “They were executed.”
In an extremely dangerous development, Israeli troops ordered the complete evacuation of Kamal Adwan Hospital, located in the Beit Lahia project, north of Gaza. 
The director of the hospital, Dr Hussam Abu Safiya, reported that he received a call from the occupation forces telling him that if he did not get the patients and medical staff out of the hospital within a day, they would be in danger.
Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor called on the UN and international community to shoulder their legal and moral obligations to put an end to the horrific crime of genocide being committed by the Israeli occupation, which has just entered its second year.