Humanitarian teams must be allowed into Jabalia: UN
The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) says as Jabalia continues to be under Israeli siege, “humanitarian and rescue teams must be allowed access without delay to save lives”.
In a post on X, the UNRWA said: “Ongoing military operations in northern Gaza are putting tens of thousands of people in grave danger and cutting off access to their essentials for survival, including water.”
Earlier, Joyce Msuya, acting humanitarian chief at the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), said people are still trapped under the rubble after a deadly night of bombardment and first responders are being blocked from reaching them.
UN calls for ‘urgent’ opening of crossing points into north Gaza
The United Nations agency OCHA says it’s unable to run a humanitarian operation at the scale needed with what it called “a few unreliable and poorly accessible crossing points”. “Many routes must open for critical supplies/services. Aid has only been facilitated when it has reached the people who need it, when they need it,” OCHA said.
UN officials have been asking Israeli authorities since Friday “to urgently facilitate our access to North Gaza, to support rescuing dozens trapped under rubble”.
“Every minute counts. Previously, delayed approvals resulted in rescue teams only recovering dead bodies,” OCHA said.
In Jabalia, Israeli forces ‘detained all men and warned women to leave’
The Israeli military siege of northern Gaza, now in its 16th day, continues with access to food, water, medicine and vital services cut off for an estimated 400,000 trapped residents.
Some of them say they have been separated from their families after Israeli soldiers stormed their shelters and detained dozens of men.
“The Israeli tanks besieged the area and forced all us out of the sheltering school,” a Palestinian woman, carrying a baby on her shoulders, said. “They detained all men and warned all women to leave in groups. We left everything behind, even baby milk.
“The Israelis started shelling us with artillery, their drone and warplanes fired missiles, too. Then, they stormed the area with their tanks and opened fire randomly.”
