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SvennoJ on 07 November 2024
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UN staffer says ‘entire society now a graveyard’ in north Gaza

Louise Wateridge, a staffer with the UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) in Gaza, has said there is “no way of telling where the destruction starts or ends” in the north of the besieged enclave.

“No matter from what direction you enter Gaza City, homes, hospitals, schools, health clinics, mosques, apartments, restaurants – all completely flattened,” she wrote in a post on X, accompanied by footage showing Israel’s systematic destruction at ground level.

The Israeli military has subjected northern Gaza to a deadly, weeks-long siege, killing more than a thousand Palestinians and displacing hundreds of thousands more.



Israeli forces shell Rafah, open fire in Bureij

The Israeli military is carrying out artillery shelling in the city of Rafah in southern Gaza, our Al Jazeera Arabic colleagues report. The target of the attack is not yet clear. No casualties have been reported so far.

In central Gaza, Israeli military vehicles reportedly opened fire in the Bureij refugee camp, the Palestinian Information Center reports, without providing further details.


Israeli military bombs house in Beit Lahiya, killing at least 5

Israeli fighter jets have bombed a house in the Beit Lahiya area of northern Gaza, killing at least five people, our Al Jazeera Arabic colleagues report.


Israeli military says it killed ’50 terrorists’ in Jabalia, expands assault on Beit Lahiya

Providing an update on its operations in Gaza, the Israeli military says its Division 162 continues to fight in Jabalia in the north, where “during the last day, about 50 terrorists were killed”.

It added that the division “began to operate in Beit Lahiya”, marking an expansion of military operations in the area which has been under a deadly Israeli military siege for weeks, trapping and killing many civilians.

It said this expansion was due to “preliminary intelligence information … which indicated the presence of terrorists and terrorist infrastructure in the area”.

Last week, authorities in Beit Lahiya declared the area a disaster zone “due to the Israeli war of extermination and siege”, saying it had “no food, water, hospitals, doctors, services, or communications”.


Gaza Health Ministry appeals for blood donation, medical delegations

After more than a month of Israel’s siege on northern Gaza and its hospitals, the enclave’s Health Ministry has appealed to international organisations to send medical delegations to the area.

It said medical professionals were especially needed in Kamal Adwan Hospital in Beit Lahiya. The ministry also appealed for ambulances and asked for blood donations at Gaza City’s al-Ahli Arab Hospital for north Gaza residents.