The israeli forces They blew up homes and laid siege to schools and shelters for displaced people on Monday, as they intensified their operations in Jabalia, in the north of the Gaza Stripaccording to several residents and doctors. They also detained men and ordered women to leave the field.
Several doctors at the Indonesian Hospital told Reuters that Israeli troops stormed a school and detained the men before setting the premises on fire.. The fire reached the hospital’s generators and caused a blackout, according to these doctors.
Health authorities said they rejected the orders of the israeli armywhich began a new incursion into the north of the Palestinian territory more than two weeks ago, to evacuate the three hospitals in the area or leave the patients unattended.
Troops remained outside the hospital but did not enter, they said. Doctors at a second hospital, Kamal Adwan, reported heavy Israeli fire near the hospital at night.“The army is burning the schools near the hospital, and no one can enter or leave the hospital,” said a nurse at the Indonesian Hospital, who asked that his name not be revealed.
Palestinian health authorities said 18 people had died in Jabalia and eight in other places in Loop in israeli attacks.
The Israeli army said its troops were continuing ground operations throughout the Gaza Strip.. In a statement, he said that over the past day troops had dismantled infrastructure and fighter tunnels and killed fighters in the Jabalia area. The army did not comment on the immediate situation in hospitals and camps.
Israel has intensified its campaigns both in Loop as in Lebanon days after a platoon of Israeli soldiers kill Hamas leader Yahya Sinwarand hopes will increase for an opening of talks for a ceasefire that will end more than a year of conflict.
Israel has vowed to eradicate the fighters of Hamas that previously controlled Loopbut in doing so it has devastated much of the territory and killed tens of thousands of people. More than 1.9 million people have been left homeless and suffering a humanitarian crisis.
Run out
Hadeel Obeid, a nurse supervisor at the Indonesian Hospital, where 32 patients are currently being treated, said they were running out of medical supplies. “Sterile gauze is running out and there is no medicine to give them,” he told Reuters via a chat app.
Obeid said the water supply had been cut off and it was the fourth day in a row without food. He called on international organizations to act to save the injured. The UN said that its representatives had not been able to reach the three hospitals in northern Loop and demanded access to allow aid to enter the areas of the northern Gaza.
The Office of UN Human Rights said she was “increasingly concerned about the way the israeli army is carrying out hostilities in the northern Gazaalong with illegal interference with humanitarian aid and the orders that are causing forced displacement, which may be causing the destruction of the Palestinian population in the northernmost governorate of Loop through deaths and displacement”.
Israel claims that it is reaching Loop large quantities of humanitarian supplies through ground deliveries and air drops. He also claims to have facilitated the evacuation of patients from Kamal Adwan Hospital. Instead, the Palestinians claim that no aid has entered the northern areas of Gaza where the operation takes place.
Several residents and doctors said the Israeli army had tightened its grip on Jabalia, the largest of the enclave’s eight historic refugee camps, encircling it by sending tanks to the nearby towns of Beit Hanun and Beit Lahiya. and issuing evacuation orders to residents. “We face death from bombs, thirst and hunger,” said Raed, a resident of Jabalia camp. “Jabalia is being devastated and there are no witnesses to the crime, the world is blinding its eyes.”
The Israeli authorities They stated that the evacuation orders were intended to separate the combatants from Hamas of civilians and denied that there was a systematic plan to expel civilians from Jabalia or from other northern areas. He stated that the forces operating in the northern Gaza They killed dozens of armed men Hamas and dismantled infrastructure.
Hamas accused Israel of carrying out acts of “genocide and ethnic cleansing” against the population of northern Loop to force her to leave. The armed arm of Hamas He stated that the fighters attacked forces in the area with anti-tank rockets and mortar fire, and detonated bombs already planted against troops who were inside tanks and parked in homes.
In other places in the enclave, Israeli strikes killed at least five people in Rafah, southern Gaza Stripalready four in two separate attacks in Gaza Cityas reported by the doctors.
Sinwar was one of the masterminds of the October 7, 2003 cross-border attack against Israeli communitiesin which about 1,200 people died and another 253 were taken to Loop as hostages, according to accounts Israelis.
The subsequent war of Israel has devastated Loopkilling more than 42,500 Palestinians, with another 10,000 believed to be unaccounted for dead under the rubbleaccording to Gaza health authorities.
