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Israeli military says no return home for north Gaza residents
The Israeli army will not allow residents of northern Gaza to return to their homes, the Israeli Broadcasting Authority says, citing a military briefing on Tuesday evening. The report said humanitarian aid will “regularly” enter the south of the Palestinian territory “since there are no more civilians left” north of Gaza City.
Israeli forces plan to split Gaza City off from the rest of the north, in an operation that appears to be the first official acknowledgement that Israel plans to permanently displace northern Gaza’s population.
Cities in the north, including Beit Lahiya and Jabalia, have been the focus of sustained Israeli air strikes, military ground operations and blockades over the past month. Israel says it wants to prevent Hamas fighters regrouping in the north and, to do so, has laid siege to certain areas, choking off the already scarce humanitarian aid allowed in.
Israel’s bombing of the north has killed about 1,300 people in the past month alone, according to Gaza’s Civilian Defence, and about 100,000 people had been displaced in the same period, the UN says.
Up to 95,000 people are estimated to remain in the north.
The Israeli army has repeatedly said it guarantees safe passage for civilians who want to leave the north. But Palestinian residents who spoke to Al Jazeera said they fear leaving northern Gaza citing the risk of being shot by Israeli snipers as well as the danger of being attacked in Israeli-designated “safe zones” elsewhere.
They also believe that they will never be allowed to return to their homes.
At least 6 killed in northern Gaza’s Beit Lahiya town
As we reported earlier, the Israeli army has been bombing the north of the Gaza Strip where it claimed to have killed scores of Hamas fighters in the past 24 hours.
Now, six people have been reported killed in an Israeli air strike on a residential house in Beit Lahiya in northern Gaza. The Palestinian Information Centre reported that the al-Asi family home was targeted there overnight.
According to witnesses cited by the news outlet, a number of family members were alive under the rubble, but later died due to the lack of first aid and they died of suffocation.
At least 11 killed in and around Gaza’s Jabalia
At least six people have been killed in Israeli artillery shelling targeting a group of people near the Abu Sharkh roundabout west of the Jabalia refugee camp in northern Gaza, according to our colleagues at Al Jazeera Arabic.
Palestinian media outlets also reported that at least five bodies were received by Jabalia’s al-Awda Hospital from the Tall az-Zaatar area.
Thousands remain without aid, medical care in north Gaza: Civil Defence
Gaza’s Civil Defence says its crews remain unable to access northern parts of the enclave.
The rescue service said in a statement on Telegram that they have been “forcibly disabled in all areas of the northern Gaza Strip” since October 23 when Israeli forces attacked its staff members, seizing their vehicles, displacing most of its personnel and kidnapping nine of them.
