Displaced Palestinians have nowhere safe to go
Ninety percent of Khan Younis is under forced displacement orders. We saw people evacuating under fire, holding whatever they could carry, and the Israeli forces asked those Palestinians to evacuate to al-Mawasi in Khan Younis.
But al-Mawasi has been targeted. Last night, a tent was targeted and a family was killed, and al-Mawasi has been targeted continuously by the Israeli forces.
There has been ongoing attacks by artillery shelling, quadcopters, drones and air strikes across the Gaza Strip in areas like northern Gaza, Gaza City, Nuseirat, Deir el-Balah and Khan Younis. The situation continues to escalate, and Palestinians are left with no choices, no options, no places to go to. Everywhere they go, they’re still going to be targeted.
Israel’s military ordered the displacement of people from Khan Younis and nearby towns, saying the entire area ‘will be considered a dangerous combat zone'
At least 71 people killed in Gaza since dawn
Israeli air attacks in Gaza have killed at least 71 Palestinians since dawn, medical sources tell Al Jazeera.
‘Just as we levelled Rafah, we will level all of Gaza,’ Smotrich says
Israel’s far-right finance minister has said that Israeli forces intend to flatten all of Gaza as they did in the southern Gaza city of Rafah.
“Just as we levelled Rafah, we will level all of Gaza,” Bezalel Smotrich said in remarks reported by the Israeli Army Radio.
“The army’s operation aims to occupy and cleanse areas in Gaza, and every house we destroy is considered a tunnel in our view.”
UN aid chief says assistance entering Gaza is ‘drop in the ocean’
After 11 weeks of total blockade, Tom Fletcher says Israeli authorities have cleared nine aid trucks to enter Gaza, where harsh restrictions on food and aid have sparked accusations that Israel is using starvation as a weapon of war.
Fletcher called the entry of the trucks a “welcome development” but said aid must be allowed into the Strip on a massive scale to deliver relief for Palestinians.
“Today, nine of our trucks were cleared to enter via the Kerem Shalom [Karem Abu Salem] crossing. But it is a drop in the ocean of what is urgently needed, and significantly more aid must be allowed into Gaza starting tomorrow morning,” Fletcher said in a statement.
Given high levels of extreme hunger in Gaza the risk of trucks carrying aid being looted is “significant”, he added.
“The limited quantities of aid now being allowed into Gaza are of course no substitute for unimpeded access to civilians in such dire need.”
400 daily are needed just to sustain the population. 'Dozens' certainly won't stave of famine. It will keep the worst cases on life support at best, if it can even reach those most dire in need.
