‘Waking up to panic’ after Israel issues more evacuation orders in Gaza
A UNRWA spokesperson has reported renewed panic among civilians in the besieged enclave after the Israeli military issued more forced evacuation orders. People are once again unsure where they can go as nowhere is safe, wrote Louise Wateridge in a post on X.
“The question that has repeatedly haunted families over the last 12 months, There is no answer.”
Waking up to panic this morning as more evacuation orders issued in middle #Gaza areas.
Everyone asking "Where are we supposed to go?"
The question that has repeatedly haunted families over the last 12 months. There is no answer.
Displacement on displacement on displacement. pic.twitter.com/vKiIecVmv8
— Louise Wateridge (@UNWateridge) October 5, 2024
‘Everyone in Gaza is desperate’
New Israeli evacuation orders for areas in central Gaza include Salah al-Din Street – one of the main routes in the Strip.
All of these Palestinians, who are currently in the middle area of the enclave, particularly in Nuseirat, are people who have already been displaced for nearly a year now from northern Gaza and Rafah in the south.
These Palestinians have lost everything, with no belongings, and they don’t have any homes.
This comes after couple of attacks in Nuseirat, where the Israeli forces targeted a house and killed six members of the same family. And in Deir el-Balah, a school was targeted and a displaced person was killed.
All of this comes as we are close to marking a year. Everyone in Gaza is very desperate.
There is no safe place across the Gaza Strip.
Israeli army destroys 814 mosques, 3 churches, 19 cemeteries
The Israeli army has destroyed 814 mosques, three churches and 19 cemeteries during its year of attacks on Gaza, the region’s Religious Affairs Ministry says. Another 148 mosques were damaged in the attacks, it said, adding that the estimated financial cost of the damage to the ministry’s properties is $350m.
The ministry said the Israeli army was also guilty of desecrating graves, exhuming bodies and committing acts of violence against those who died, such as stealing their remains and mutilating them. In addition, 11 administrative and educational facilities under its authority were destroyed, accounting for 79 percent of such structures in Gaza.
The ministry added that Israeli forces killed 238 of its employees and detained 19 others during ground offensives in the territory.
