‘Dozens killed in Jabalia. No one can retrieve their bodies’
The Israeli military ground operation is ongoing against Jabalia refugee camp. We are here on the street corner of Jabalia al-Balad and Jabalia camp, where the Israeli forces shoot at anyone who moves in this street.
These are some displaced people who are trying to leave the street and to escape the scene. Also, the Israeli forces have set up a number of barriers, and they destroyed a number of citizens’ homes in order to close the street leading to Jabalia.
The Israeli military has deployed reinforcements here, and there are a number of dead and wounded in the eastern and northeastern areas of the camp. We can hear the sounds of gunfire. Dozens of people have been killed in the streets of the camp. No one can retrieve their bodies.
It’s a very difficult situation with the Israeli operation in the area now into its fifth successive day. The streets have been bulldozed, and the Israelis have created piles of earth as barriers to prevent any movement between Jabalia al-Balad and Jabalia camp.
People carry a wounded woman in Jabalia camp
Al Jazeera cameraman wounded by Israeli gunfire in northern Gaza
Cameraman Fadi al-Wahidi has been injured by Israeli military gunfire in northern Gaza, according to our colleagues at Al Jazeera Arabic.
“Israeli forces shot at the Al Jazeera crew, and the network’s photographer, our beloved colleague Fadi al-Wahidi, was injured by a sniper’s bullet in the neck during our coverage,” Al Jazeera Arabic’s Anas al-Sharif said in a post on X.
Journalists film while standing before destroyed buildings in the Jabalia camp for Palestinian refugees in the northern Gaza Strip on Wednesday
Israeli attacks on north Gaza ‘deepen sense of permanent displacement’
This is the fifth day in a row that the Israeli military is carrying out deadly attacks on trapped civilians in the northern part of the Strip.
It is doing it in a manner that will eventually force people out of the northern part of the Strip – part of a larger plan of making the entire northern part of the Gaza Strip quite uninhabitable, by destroying every means of life that have been somehow supporting their existence and presence for almost a year.
Since the early hours of this morning, the Israeli military has encircled the entirety of Jabalia – that includes Jabalia town and Jabalia refugee camp, from the eastern part of Salah al-Din Street all the way to the western part of Jabalia town – leaving one single exit out of the Jabalia area where it set up checkpoints for people to go through for the coming few days.
It is intensifying its across the northern part of the Strip including Beit Hanoon, Jabalia and Beit Lahiya where it targeted evacuation centres.
At midday, the Israeli military fired missiles at 10 sites inside Yemen Al-Saeed Hospital in Jabalia. This particular hospital was pushed out of service in the initial months of the war and turned into an evacuation centre for hundreds of displaced Palestinians whose homes and residential buildings were completely destroyed.
They have been sheltering in that area, seeking protection, but the Israeli military has forced the majority of people out of it. Those who managed to leave the area have given harrowing testimonies of what they experienced, including running for their lives under heavy artillery.
The fact that the Israeli military is deploying advanced quadcopters and surveillance drones that chase people as they leave the areas where they were told to evacuate from creates mayhem and a sense of intimidation, fear and concern – and deepens the sense of permanent displacement.
Residents of Jabalia refugee camp flee to other areas
