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SvennoJ on 13 May 2024
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Night of Israeli air strikes, artillery fire and helicopter attacks

In addition to the air strike on a residential building to the south of the Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza, where it was reported that 14 people have been killed, Israeli fighter jets also attacked a school in the refugee camp where a fire is now burning, according to reports.

Our colleagues at Al Jazeera Arabic also report that Gaza Civil Defence rescue workers were unable to reach the wounded and those trapped under the rubble from the Nuseirat camp attack due to continuous Israeli bombing.

Israeli helicopter gunships have fired on the Zeitoun neighbourhood in Gaza City and air strikes hit the eastern area of ​​Rafah city overnight.

The Wafa news agency also reports artillery attacks on Beit Lahiya city, in the northwest of the Gaza Strip, and on the Jabalia refugee camp also located in the north of the territory.

Entire population in north Gaza ‘on the run, all fearing for their children’

Displaced Palestinians say the situation in northern Gaza – where Israeli forces have launched a new ground offensive – is “disastrous”, with Israeli forces firing on UNRWA shelters and forcing large numbers of people to go on the run again.

“Since the beginning of war, we have taken shelter in UN-run schools. Since then, the Israeli soldiers have repeatedly raided schools. Enough with it; together with our children we have been homeless for months. And, we are showered with missiles and shells,” said Suad Albiss, a resident of the Jabalia refugee camp. “Now, we are forced to keep moving; just like nomads.”

Another woman who was evacuating Jabalia along with her belongings and children appealed to the world to act.

“We are living in misery. The situation in northern Gaza is disastrous. We are forced to move from one place to another. We cannot find any shelter or a place to settle in; needless to mention the daily killing, the absence of food, water or medicine,” she said.

“If our children are not killed under bombardment, they will die of hunger or diseases. We appeal to the whole world to act; to have a ceasefire; to end the war.”

More mass displacement of Gaza’s population as Israeli attacks escalate: UN

About 20 percent of Gaza’s population of more than 2 million people have been displaced yet again in the past week due to intensified Israeli military operations which have seen the territory pounded from the air, land and sea, resulting in more civilians killed and infrastructure destroyed, according to the UN.

It its latest flash assessment of conditions in Gaza, the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UNOCHA) also reports that “acute malnutrition” has increased amid the forced relocation of Gaza’s population by Israeli forces and the risk of infectious disease is growing.

While some fuel and humanitarian food trucks have entered the Gaza Strip since Sunday, “the aid supplies remain largely insufficient”, the UN said in its assessment.

“Already catastrophic levels of hunger faced by the population” could worsen, the UN warns.