Israel discussing plans for a US company to oversee aid in north Gaza: Reports
Israeli media outlets are reporting that Netanyahu’s cabinet is discussing plans to bring in a private US company to oversee the distribution of aid in besieged northern Gaza, in an operation that could see Israel’s military stay in the region for three more months.
The Israeli Public Broadcasting Corporation said the plan was proposed during discussions on distributing aid in Gaza, where a UN-backed committee has warned of imminent famine. It said the plan envisages the US firm providing protection and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) managing the distribution area.
The Israeli Army Radio meanwhile reported that Israel’s ongoing siege of Jabalia in northern Gaza, currently in its 46th day, was for “cleaning and sanitising the area – for the benefit of the plan to introduce humanitarian aid through a private American company that will operate in the area under Israeli auspices”.
The Israeli military had previously said it was re-entering the area to prevent Hamas from regrouping there.
The station said that under the proposal, Israel’s military will stay in northern Gaza’s Jabalia refugee camp for at least three more months.
UN officials have described conditions in northern Gaza as “apocalyptic” with tens of thousands of trapped civilians subjected to daily Israeli bombardment and cut off from access to food, water and medicine. Israeli troops have also forced hospitals shut in the area, destroyed all remaining ambulances and prevented emergency workers from carrying out rescue operations.
Only more misdirection for stalling purposes or worse, just like the US aid pier...
Cleaning and sanitizing, wtf.
Eight Palestinians killed in Israeli attack on north Gaza
Our colleagues at Al Jazeera Arabic are reporting that an Israeli air attack on Jabalia al-Balad killed at least eight people and wounded several others. The Israeli aircraft targeted the home of the Jouda family, AJA added.
The attack comes shortly after Israeli bombardment in the neighbouring Beit Lahiya project killed at least eight Palestinians.
A child sits with the bodies of Palestinians killed in an Israeli attack on the Jabalia al-Baled area on November 10
Al Jazeera journalist wounded in Israeli attack
We are getting reports that Hossam Shabat was lightly injured while he was reporting in the Sabra neighbourhood of Gaza City. The correspondent for Al Jazeera Mubasher was hit while at the site of a previous Israeli attack that killed a Palestinian Civil Defence worker. Shabat was wearing a press jacket at the time of the attack.
The Wafa news agency reported that several Palestinians were killed and wounded in the earlier Israeli attack, which targeted a home opposite the Sultan Bakery in the Sabra neighbourhood.
Shabat took to X to recount what happened.
“Tonight, I was deliberately targeted by Israeli forces. After receiving word of a nearby bombing, I jumped into my car to report. Upon arriving at the house packed with terrified people, I could hear their desperate screams for help from the second floor. The moment I stepped inside, the house was bombed again, and dismembered body parts of the wounded flew around me,”
“Rubble crashed down on me and my colleagues; One first responder was killed, and while my colleague and I were injured, many others did not survive.”
اللحظات الأولى لقصف طائرات الاحتلال طواقم الدفاع المدني خلال أداءا مهامهم في انتشال الإصابات في حي الصبرة بمدينة غزة pic.twitter.com/4t1ebf4zru
— المركز الفلسطيني للإعلام (@PalinfoAr) November 20, 2024
Translation: The first moments of the occupation aircraft bombing the civil defence crews while they were performing their duties in retrieving the injured in the Sabra neighbourhood in Gaza City.
Death toll from Israel’s attack on Gaza’s Jabalia rises
Our colleagues at Al Jazeera Arabic are reporting that the death toll from Israel’s attack on Jabalia al-Balad has now risen to 12.
Several young children were injured in the attack
