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SvennoJ on 23 July 2024
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While all eyes are on Biden stepping down and Netanyahu visiting the USA, the IDF ramps up killing and displacing more civilians.


Situation grim in Khan Younis, deteriorating in Bureij

The security situation on the ground is escalating, especially in the city of Khan Younis, in the southern part of the Gaza Strip.

What we do know is that the military started an operation 24 hours ago, giving people a very short time in order to flee from their houses. But what we do hear from witnesses is that they have been attacked as they were trying to flee.

Also, according to a statement by the Gaza Government Media Office, at least 89 Palestinians have been killed during the past 24 hours, all in the city of Khan Younis, while more than 260 others have been wounded.

The shocking reality is that there are still 68 others missing under the rubble as search teams cannot really get close to the eastern areas where the fighting now is raging between Hamas operatives and the Israeli forces.

Meanwhile, the al-Mawasi area can no longer can be classified as a so-called “safe humanitarian zone” because right now it’s a theatre for operations by the Israeli army.

While the situation is incredibly grim in the city of Khan Younis, it’s also deteriorating in Bureij where the Israeli army is advancing deep and slowly into that camp destroying residential houses.

‘What is the world still waiting for?’

Mansour Shouman, a journalist in contact with sources in Gaza, says with the latest Israeli assault on southern Khan Younis there’s really no place to run for besieged Palestinians.

“Right now there are hundreds of people stuck in that area calling the civil defence agency to try to get themselves out as soon as possible. But nothing has happened,” Shouman told Al Jazeera.

Sources within aid organisations say they “fear the worst” after the latest Israeli ground invasion, he added.

Shouman quoted one American doctor who has worked in desperate situations around the world for decades. “He said in one week in Gaza he witnessed more carnage than his 30 years of service in different areas. We’re talking about over 30,000 orphans right now, cancer patients who don’t have treatment. What is the world still waiting for before we act?”


Smoke rises following Israeli bombardment in Khan Younis


More than 16,000 children killed in 290 days of war: Media Office

The Government Media Office has said the figure is part of the overall death toll of more than 39,000 people killed in Israel’s war on Gaza. Ten thousand others remain missing, it added.

Here are some more figures it gave:

  • 34 children have died due to malnutrition
  • 10,859 of those killed were women
  • 500 of those killed were medical staff
  • 79 of those killed were members of the civil defence
  • 163 journalists have been killed
  • 310 healthcare providers have been detained
  • Seven mass graves have been found inside hospitals
  • 520 dead bodies were unearthed from these graves
  • Almost 90,000 have been wounded
  • 70 percent of the victims are children and women
  • 166 shelter centres have been targeted by the Israeli military
  • 17,000 children are living without one or both parents.
  • 12,000 wounded people, in addition to 3,000 patients with various diseases, need to travel abroad for treatment.
  • 10,000 cancer patients are in dire need of treatment
  • 1.7 million people are suffering from infectious diseases
  • 71,338 cases of hepatitis cases have been recorded
  • 60,000 pregnant women are at risk due to lack of healthcare
  • 350,000 patients with chronic diseases are at risk due to lack of medicine


Gaza residents ‘trapped in increasingly small and overcrowded areas’

The UN agency providing relief to Palestinian refugees says Israeli evacuation orders “have hit a huge part of the Strip, leaving less and less places to go for the displaced”.

“People are exhausted from the continuous displacement and unlivable conditions, and they are trapped in increasingly small and overcrowded areas,” UNRWA said.