Palestinians gather to buy bread from a bakery in Deir el-Balah
Hamas says efforts in motion to thwart Israel’s ‘General’s Plan’ for Gaza
Hamas says it is engaged in intense efforts to make sure Israel fails in implementing the so-called General’s Plan of clearing Palestinians from northern Gaza.
“The leadership of the Hamas movement has launched a campaign of intensive political and diplomatic movements and communications to thwart the occupation’s plans and stop the complex crime that the occupation is committing within the framework of the war of extermination and open massacres in the Gaza Strip, specifically in the northern part,” the group said in a statement.
Hamas said it has warned others of the devastating consequences if such a plan is successfully implemented in Gaza, adding: “Delegations from the movement’s leadership are visiting Turkey, Qatar and Russia, and contacts have also taken place in Egypt, the United Nations and Iran.”
Another attack in central Gaza
Our colleagues at Al Jazeera Arabic are reporting Israeli shelling in the Maghazi refugee camp in central Gaza with an unspecified number of people injured in the attack.
Israel is ‘putting numbers on men’ in northern Gaza
The situation is very hard in northern Gaza and also here in the south. We just received news that at least one Palestinian was killed and 16 others were completely severely burned after a target in the Maghazi refugee camp. And most of these Palestinians do not have any creams or any medicine to treat their burns.
In the northern Gaza Strip, we’re talking about 20 days of an imposed siege. No food, no water, no civil defence teams, no ambulances, no paramedics. The Israeli forces are literally forcing people to leave their houses, to leave their shelters, and also separating families from one another.
They’re putting numbers on men. They’re putting numbers on people and interrogating them. Israel has also been digging holes and putting people inside those holes and grouping them into 10.
After midnight, the Israeli forces also targeted civil defence teams and also forced them to evacuate the northern Gaza Strip. The situation in the north is miserable.
More than 770 people killed in Israel assault on north: Report
“Since the start of the military operation in northern Gaza more than 770 people have been killed,” said Mahmud Bassal, spokesman for the territory’s civil defence agency said, according to AFP news agency. He added that the toll could rise as there were people buried under the rubble.
The civil defence agency also said today it can no longer provide first responder services in the north, accusing Israeli forces of threatening to “bomb and kill” its crews, AFP reported.
