Israel attacks UN shelter for war displaced, killing at least 7
UN-run schools acting as shelters for war-displaced Palestinians are being told to evacuate northern Gaza’s Jabalia refugee camp by Israeli forces.
Sources on the ground say Israeli quadcopter drones equipped with loudspeakers ordered families trapped inside these shelters to flee. Once people gathered at the front gate, Israeli artillery fire struck the crowd, killing at least seven Palestinians.
The attack spread a great deal of fear and people returned inside the UNRWA evacuation centre. The army is pressing on with its offensive on Jabalia. Lethal force is being used to force families to leave the refugee camp.
The director of Kamal Adwan Hospital told us his staff were unable to cope with the large number of casualties being brought to the overwhelmed facility.
‘Gaza – from the south, to the middle, to the north – is all being targeted’
Israeli forces have been trying to expel Palestinians living in the northern part of the Gaza Strip, forcing them to leave their residences and shelters, reports Al Jazeera’s Hind Khoudary from Deir el-Balah, in central Gaza.
Khoudary said the Israeli army has been using lethal force to forcibly displace Palestinians from areas such as Jabalia, Beit Hanoon and Beit Lahiya while tightening a crippling siege.
“We’re talking about 17 days without food, without water, without medicine; no aid, nothing reached the northern Gaza Strip,” she said.
“Despite all of these situations, Palestinians still continue to resist this occupation and choose to stay in those shelters, stay in those schools, despite the fact that the air strikes did not stop, the artillery shelling did not stop, but also quadcopters and live ammunition,” Khoudary added.
She said what is happening in the northern Gaza Strip is not very different from the other areas of the besieged and bombarded territory.
“Gaza – from the south to the middle, to the north – is all being targeted,” she added, referencing an attack earlier today on a tent in western Khan Younis, in the so-called “humanitarian zone” of al-Mawasi, that killed at least two people, including a child, and wounded six others.
“Palestinians believe that there is no safe place across the Gaza Strip.”
Forcibly displaced Palestinians filmed at north Gaza checkpoint
Video from Israel’s state news broadcaster shows crowds of forcibly displaced Palestinians at a military checkpoint in Jabalia, in northern Gaza, as they are forced to leave the area.
Witnesses say men have been separated from their families and many have been detained.
Hamas claims killing and wounding of Israeli soldiers in Jabalia
The armed wing of Hamas says its fighters ambushed four Israeli vehicles loaded with explosives in the Jabalia refugee camp in northern Gaza.
A tank, an armoured personnel carrier, and two D9 bulldozers were in the convoy, which was hit by Yassin-105 rockets and a Shawaz explosive device, a post on Telegram said. The military equipment was blown up, killing and wounding an unidentified number of soldiers.
Palestinians desperate for water among those killed in Gaza
Six men have been killed by Israeli forces as they tried to get drinking water in northern Gaza’s Jabalia refugee camp, the main focus of a 17-day ground invasion that’s killed at least 460 people and cut off food, water and medicine.
Four other Palestinians, including two women, were killed in a strike on an area sheltering displaced people in Jabalia, the Health Ministry’s emergency service said. Another three people died in an attack on a school-turned-shelter in Beit Hanoon, a northeastern city near the boundary with Israel.
Dr Hossam Abu Safiyya, director of the nearby Kamal Adwan Hospital, said it’s overwhelmed with wounded people and patients.
Israeli authorities have dramatically reduced the amount of aid allowed into Gaza, raising fears among Palestinians that it’s implementing a “surrender-or-starve plan” advocated by retired Israeli generals.
