Where to now as Israel orders Gaza City evacuated?
The leaflets dropped by Israel on Gaza City claimed that Palestinians would be able to take “safe routes” south.
But earlier this month, Andrea De Domenico, the head of the UN humanitarian agency’s office in the occupied Palestinian territory, said it was impossible for Palestinians to move safely between the north and the south of Gaza.
Palestinians trying to pass the Israeli military checkpoints dividing Gaza have been executed “in cold blood” or put in prisons, where inhumane conditions are reportedly widespread, Gaza’s Government Media Office has also warned.
“The Strip is completely broken in two,” said De Domenico. There is a “military presence that is blocking movements and impeding movements for the civilians, and frequently, unfortunately, also obstructing our ability to move,” he said.
Israel’s Gaza City evacuation order ‘absolute madness’, says rights group
B’Tselem, the Israeli Information Center for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories, has called Israel’s orders for Gaza City’s entire population to evacuate “absolute madness”. In a post on social media, the leading human rights groups said the international community must now intervene and “demand that Israel immediately stop the war”.
“Based on Israel’s actions, it appears that it intends to continue fighting indefinitely, sowing destruction, and killing masses of people for the foreseeable future,” the group said in a series of posts.
Palestinians describe Israeli snipers shooting at civilians
A woman told Al Jazeera she wanted to pass through Yarmouk stadium in the Shujayea neighbourhood in Gaza City but was told there were bodies of Palestinians in the streets who were shot by Israeli snipers.
“We came to ask for help from the paramedics and firefighters to at least take the dead bodies so they wouldn’t remain in the street. Otherwise, their bodies would be eaten by dogs if they are not retrieved from the roads. They need to be buried.”
But another man in the area said paramedics were unable to reach the bodies. “They told us that they didn’t have instructions to retrieve the bodies and that anyone who approaches the deceased will be shot directly,” he said.
Multiple people said they saw a man walking in the street being shot in the head by a sniper. Several people later managed to retrieve the body. “This person was walking peacefully, and then a bullet was shot into his head. We went down and brought him here,” one of the men said.
Palestinians walk past the destroyed buildings and rubble after the Israeli military withdrew from the Shujayea neighbourhood, east of Gaza City on July 10
Health authorities restart two hospitals in Gaza City
The Government Media Office in Gaza says health authorities have restarted partial operations at two healthcare facilities in Gaza City in the northern part of the enclave on Thursday after Israeli military attacks rendered them out of service.
The al-Ahli Arab Hospital and the General Service Hospital are again receiving sick or wounded Palestinians, it said in a statement.
“We appreciate the great and exceptional efforts of the medical teams who have been working around the clock and have not stopped since the beginning of the genocidal war to serve our great Palestinian people.”
