Aid worker recounts ‘horrific stories’ from north Gaza
Philippa Greer, the head of legal affairs at UNRWA, who crossed into northern Gaza on Monday, shared what she saw and heard in a post on X.
“Horrific stories from northern Gaza of the sick and injured, the herding of men on their knees. Considered lucky if they were wearing underwear when forced to strip and put on white PPE. Their fate cut off from the world,” she wrote on X.
“Little boys walking down through the checkpoint South with their hands up, marching forward… People forced away from bombardment and siege, arriving to more bombardment and siege,” she said.
Greer also shared footage from the north, shot from the window of a moving vehicle, showing a barren wasteland with nearly all buildings reduced to rubble.
Crossing North of Wadi Gaza yesterday. More “postcards” of destruction. Carts left behind loaded with belongings against the wreckage. The items that carry memories are long under the rubble. Horrific stories from northern Gaza of the sick and injured, the herding of men on their… pic.twitter.com/QQMQj3ej8k
— Philippa Greer (@philippa_bear) November 18, 2024
Wounded Palestinian child pleads for medical treatment abroad
Mazyouna Damo, a 12-year-old Palestinian girl whose face was ripped apart by an Israeli rocket, is appealing to the world to help her leave Gaza for medical treatment.
The girl was wounded on June 8 during Israel’s raid to free four Israeli captives in the Nuseirat refugee camp.
At least 247 Palestinians were killed in that attack.
Mazyouna now has no teeth or bone left on one side of her mouth and cheek and is unable to eat. Her mother says she survives on fruit juice. Hospitals in Gaza are unable to provide the specialist treatment Mazyouna needs to reconstruct her face, and rebuild her life.
“My face is always in pain. I want to get good medical treatment so I can eat the way I used to,” the girl told Al Jazeera. “I urge the world to give me a chance to travel abroad and to be treated properly. I don’t need anything else.”
So far, Mazyouna’s family has applied to Israeli authorities five times for permission for her to travel abroad, but she hasn’t been allowed.
Israeli military operation in northern Gaza continues for 45th day
The north is the main theatre of operations for the Israeli army. The military operation has been continuing for 45 consecutive days in northern Gaza where repeated Israeli attacks have caused widespread devastation of catastrophic proportions.
The Israeli army has transformed the northern part of Gaza into a landscape of rubble, where towns and refugee camps like Beit Lahiya and Jabalia have become completely unrecognisable due to widescale attacks.
The humanitarian situation in the north is deteriorating by the hour; it underscores the urgent necessity for an immediate ceasefire and unrestricted human access to prevent further deterioration of living conditions and loss of life not only in the north of the Strip but also in the central area which witnessed multiple attacks in the past day.
One man was killed in the Nuseirat refugee camp. The Israeli army has been creating a very corrosive environment in the north of the Strip where civilians are not only struggling from dire humanitarian conditions but also from weather fluctuations.
