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Israeli military intensifies attacks on northern Gaza

The Israeli military began its latest tank attacks on Jabalia refugee camp in northern Gaza two days ago, and it has also launched air raids and shelling there. This is not the first attack in the past year.

Earlier today, Israeli forces issued another evacuation order, but what’s different this time is that it’s not only blocks but whole areas, telling people from the northern parts to go to the southern parts of the Gaza Strip.

Some Palestinians in the north have refused to evacuate despite the attacks, starvation and harsh conditions the blockade has imposed on them. They still refuse to leave. Palestinians in the northern parts are telling us that they are evacuating within Gaza City, going to western and central parts of the area.

A member of UNRWA staff was also attacked and killed today in an air raid on Jabalia.


Israel blames UN and Hamas for aid blockade

The Israeli agency in charge of managing humanitarian aid to Gaza is once again defying accounts by the UN, international organisations, doctors, Western media and some of its allies that it proactively hampers aid to the enclave.

The Coordination of Government Activities in the Territories (COGAT) claims to be “happy to facilitate whatever is coordinated” by aid organisations, and says “the abilities of the UN aid organisations to pick up the aid from the Gazan side” of the Karem Abu Salem crossing with Egypt (known to Israelis as Kerem Shalom) is the bottleneck.

It also reiterated the Israeli claim that “assuring that items don’t end up in the hands of Hamas terrorists” is the reason behind prolonged delays in allowing some aid in, and the fact that some basic medical supplies like scissors are being barred from entry because they are classified as “dual use”.


Rockets fired from Gaza into south Israel

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/10/6/palestinian-journalist-19-killed-in-israeli-raid-after-receiving-threats

The Israeli army said rockets fired from northern Gaza landed in southern Israel.

“Several projectiles were identified crossing from the northern Gaza Strip into Israeli territory. One projectile was intercepted, and the rest fell in open areas,” the military said in a statement.


Israeli attacks in Gaza kill six people

The Palestinian Civil Defence in Gaza said it retrieved the bodies of three people, including a child, from Shati refugee camp in Gaza City.

Search-and-rescue operations are ongoing to find four missing people, it said.

In a separate message, the Civil Defence said its crew found the bodies of three other people killed in Israeli attacks – two in the al-Jnaina neighborhood east of Rafah and one near al-Najma Roundabout in Rafah city.


Israeli soldiers threatened and then killed Palestinian journalist in Gaza

Israeli forces have killed Palestinian journalist Hassan Hamad in an air strike on his home in northern Gaza’s Jabalia refugee camp, days after the reporter said he was warned by an Israeli officer to stop filming.

“Hassan Hamad, the journalist who did not live past the age of 20, resisted for a full year in his own way. He resisted by staying away from his family so they wouldn’t be targeted. He resisted when he struggled to find an internet signal, sitting for an hour or two on the rooftop just to send the videos that reach you in seconds,” a post on Hamad’s X account posted by his colleague said.

With the killing of the 19-year-old journalist, whose work appeared on Al Jazeera and other media outlets, the number of Palestinian journalists killed since the war began has risen to 175, according to Gaza’s Government Media Office.