Israel is playing even more dirty to force people out of Jabalia

by Motasem A Dalloul

People carry on a gurney a man extricated from the rubble of a collapsed building following Israeli bombardment after his rescue in the Saftawi district in Jabalia in the northern Gaza Strip on October 15, 2024 amid the ongoing war in the Palestinian territory between Israel and Hamas. [OMAR AL-QATTAA/AFP via Getty Images]

For the 13th consecutive day, the Israeli occupation forces are carrying out a ground incursion and air strikes in northern Gaza. Jabalia, Beit Hanoun and Beit Lahiya are all being targeted, although the occupation forces are concentrating their attacks in Jabalia refugee camp, where they are cutting-off all humanitarian aid.

The Israelis have also issued orders for the three partially operational hospitals in the area to evacuate patients and staff. The staff, however, have all refused to leave despite the lack of fuel which is necessary for ambulances and operation theatres in all three hospitals to continue working. Moreover, the Palestinians in the area are being starved by the occupation regime.

Oxfam and 37 other aid groups confirmed this in a statement on Tuesday.

Several days after the onset of the latest incursion, Israeli and international media started to speak about the plan laid down by retired Israeli General Giora Eiland. This would see military pressure put on the Palestinians as well as them being starved in order to force them out of northern Gaza.

The Israeli intention is to evacuate all northern parts of the Gaza Strip and then annex the territory under the smokescreen of creating a military buffer zone. The creation of the heavily-fortified Netzarim Corridor is meant to be the barrier between the displaced Palestinians in the south and their homes which have been destroyed by Israel in the north.

To summarise, on the ground the Israeli occupation forces are carrying out ground and air strikes and imposing a tight siege on Jabalia. The besieged Palestinian residents are being starved, while the remaining three hospitals have been ordered to evacuate patients and staff. The world is condemning these acts and calling for humanitarian aid to be allowed in, especially into northern Gaza.

The apartheid occupation state of Israel is ignoring the condemnations and continuing with its ethnic cleansing operations by killing civilians or otherwise forcing them out of their homes. Whole residential blocks are then being destroyed by the occupation army, sometimes over the heads of the residents who refuse to leave their homes.

The Israeli regime claims to have allowed between 20 and 50 truckloads of aid to enter northern Gaza on Tuesday and Wednesday.

Aid agencies working in the area told local media on Thursday that the Israeli claims are simply not true.

The simple fact is that, unless world leaders carry out real action against the occupation state and stop this ethnic cleansing which is happening as I write, and persuade the US to end its unconditional support for Israel’s genocide and other war crimes, the Palestinians in Gaza are facing the worst disaster in their history.

This is happening in real time on social media; the first livestreamed genocide, ever. Israel is playing even more dirty than usual to force the Palestinians out of Jabalia and the rest of northern Gaza. Nobody can ever claim that they didn’t know what was going on.