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‘Unimaginable’: Killings and forced displacement continue in northern Gaza

What has been happening the past couple of days has been unimaginable – the mass killing and forced displacement.

In Beit Hanoon, the area has been under siege for more than a month – approximately 40 days. Families are displaced to schools and houses that have not been bombed. They survived all these weeks without any food.

Israeli forces started bombing and shelling Beit Lahiya and areas surrounding the shelters at midnight, forcing people to evacuate, with quadcopters and Israeli presence on the ground. Today, they forced people to leave the shelters and go to the south.

In the middle area, there was a group of Palestinians very close to an UNRWA clinic. Six Palestinians were killed by an Israeli drone.

Last night, a group of Palestinians were killed while they were sitting in a cafe – it’s not a real cafe, just a place where a person made a tent, put up some chairs and was offering hot drinks to Palestinians. They were also targeted in al-Mawasi, an area known as a safe humanitarian zone.


At least six people killed in Israeli attack near mosque in Gaza’s Deir el-Balah

An Israeli air strike has targeted an overcrowded area near Al Noor Mosque in the western part of Deir el-Balah city in central Gaza, killing at least six people, according to our team on the ground. At least 10 critically injured people were received by the American field hospital, our team said.

The latest killings brought the death toll in the Israeli attacks carried out across the Gaza Strip since dawn to 25.


Israeli strike hits tent camp in Gaza City

An Israeli strike has hit a tented encampment housing displaced Palestinians in Gaza City, our colleagues at Al Jazeera Arabic are reporting. The air raid hit the area of the Gaza Sports Club, causing several injuries.


Hundreds of Palestinians forced to flee Gaza’s Beit Hanoon