3,700 people killed or missing since Israel’s siege of northern Gaza: Media Office
The Israeli military has continued “its intensive land, air and sea aggression on northern Gaza for 60 days” that also wounded 10,000 others, Gaza’s Media Office says.
A statement by the office on Telegram said 2,400 of the 3,700 people who were killed or missing were “buried” under the rubble.
During the offensive, the Israeli forces also detained 1,750 people, the office added.
“The occupation also targeted and prevented the work of civil defence crews in the governorate, in addition to its destruction of vital sectors,” most notably the health sector and water networks, it said.
The statement said the condition of the sanitation facilities, infrastructure and road networks exacerbated the humanitarian crisis in northern Gaza, declaring the region “disaster-stricken in every sense of the word”.
Israel’s siege of northern Gaza ‘nothing short of ethnic cleansing’
Today marks 60 days of the Israeli ground assault on northern Gaza.
This includes systematic destruction and demolition of homes as well as attacks on families. The destruction of all means of life in northern Gaza left the region with one conclusion – what is going on is nothing short of ethnic cleansing.
From what we see, the patterns of destruction, attacks, killing and detention of civilians and military siege around the area are worsening with each passing day. All of this happens as an intense bombing campaign continues. In an overnight attack, 10 people were killed in one house.
There are no ‘humanitarian zones’ or ‘evacuation orders’ in Gaza
Many families in Gaza are weighing whether they should flee their current shelter and risk having to endure the harsh winter out on the streets or risk being bombed and killed where they are.
There is no guarantee that they will be safe from Israel’s bombs and bullets if they choose either option.
These are dilemmas no human should ever have to endure, yet recent research by Action For Humanity, a non-governmental organistion, found that 98 percent of the 200,000 people in the “humanitarian zones” in central Gaza have had to wrestle with them.
Israeli soldiers raid West Bank, arrest Palestinian man
Wafa is reporting that Israeli forces arrested the man identified as Waqas Nofal during a raid on his home in the town of Qalqilya in the occupied West Bank.
His detention follows a night of Israeli raids across the West Bank, including the city of Nablus and the village of Burqa, east of Ramallah, Wafa reported.
There has been an uptick in Israeli raids, mass detentions and killings in the West Bank since the start of the war in Gaza.
According to the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, at least 733 Palestinians have been killed since the Hamas-led October 7 attack. Most of them were shot dead by Israeli soldiers. The number of Palestinians in Israeli prisons has now exceeded 10,200, according to the monitoring group Addameer.
Israeli army arrests more Palestinians in occupied West Bank
Israeli forces have arrested at least 12 Palestinians in the occupied West Bank since yesterday, according to a statement by prisoners’ groups.
The Commission of Detainees and Ex-Detainees Affairs and the Palestinian Prisoner’s Society said the arrests took place across the governorates of Ramallah, Hebron, Qalqilya and Tubas as well as in occupied East Jerusalem.
The number of arrests by Israeli forces of Palestinians in the West Bank and East Jerusalem since the start of Israel’s war on Gaza has surpassed 11,900, the report said.
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