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Deir el-Balah tents in flames after Israeli attack
Footage verified by Al Jazeera’s Sanad fact-checking agency shows the aftermath of an Israeli attack that hit a tent camp in Gaza’s central city of Deir el-Balah.
The video shows numerous tents entirely wrecked or in flames next to a huge crater left behind by the explosion, as firefighters work to put out the blazes.
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Red Cross says Israel’s Gaza City offensive ‘intolerable’
Israel’s intensified operations in Gaza aimed at seizing Gaza City will cause new bloodshed and bring the humanitarian situation to another low, warns the Red Cross.
“The intensification of hostilities in Gaza means more killing, more displacement, more destruction and more panic,” said Christian Cardon, chief spokesman for the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC).
“Gaza is a closed space, from which nobody can escape … and where access to healthcare, food and safe water is dwindling,” said Cardon.
“Meanwhile, the security of humanitarians is getting worse by the hour,” the spokesman added. “This is intolerable.”
Cardon has taken an active role in the Red Cross’s humanitarian activities on the ground and has been involved in every exchange of the Israeli captives taken by Hamas in the group’s October 7, 2023 attack.
Israeli army warns hospital authorities, aid groups amid escalating attacks in Gaza City
The Israeli army claims its personnel delivered warning calls on Tuesday to medical authorities and international aid groups operating in northern Gaza, sharing with them plans to relocate Palestinians to the southern part of the coastal enclave.
“The officers emphasised to the medical officials that adjustments are being made to the hospital infrastructure in the south of the Strip to receive the sick and wounded, alongside an increased entry of necessary medical equipment according to the requests of the international aid organisations,” it added.
This alert comes amid Israel’s newly approved offensive, a plan by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for the military occupation of Gaza City, located in the north of the Palestinian enclave.
Occupying Gaza City marks a major escalation by Israel in its war on the Palestinian territory, and will likely result in the forced displacement of tens of thousands of exhausted and starving residents who are experiencing famine conditions, as Israel continues to block humanitarian aid from entering the territory.
‘Scorched earth’ attacks in Gaza City neighbourhoods
The same exact scenario keeps repeating itself across Gaza. The Israeli military is targeting densely populated neighbourhoods to depopulate them. We’ve seen this unfolding in Tuffah and Shujayea neighbourhoods in eastern Gaza City. Now we’re seeing it happen in the Zeitoun neighbourhood.
It’s a scorched earth strategy – destroying all means of life, including residential buildings, public facilities and other critical infrastructure. This all eventually forces people to leave the area and never return.
Elsewhere, attacks continue to happen in Jabalia.
Palestinians endure new wave of displacement
A displaced Palestinian man gathers his belongings after an Israeli strike on a camp for internally displaced people in Deir el-Balah, central Gaza, on August 21
