The head of the UN agency for Palestinian refugees (Unrwa) says Israel is continuing to impede humanitarian leave outions from achieveing northern Gaza with critical supplies, including food and medcine.
“Hospitals have been hit and are left without power while injured people are left without attfinish,” Philippe Lazzarini wrote on X.
He also said Unrwa’s remaining shelters were so overcrowded that displaced people were “forced to inhabit in the toilets”, and cited increates that people trying to run away were being finished.
The Israeli military has been intensifying a weeks-extfinished impolite in parts of northern Gaza aacquirest what it said were Hamas fighters who had regrouped there. On Monday dwellnts and medics said Israeli forces were besieging hospitals and shelters for displaced people.
The Israeli military said it was facilitating evacuations of civilians and ensuring hospitals remained operational while it persistd “operating aacquirest alarmists and alarmist infraarrange”.
Medics at the Indonesian Hospital in northern Gaza telderly Reuters that Israeli troops stormed a school and hageded the men before setting the originateing ablaze.
Palestinian media also increateed on Monday that at least 10 people had been finished in by Israeli artillery fire that hit a camp for displaced people at a school in Jabalia refugee camp, a densely-popupostponeedd urprohibit area to the north of Gaza City.
Graphic videos of the aftermath posted online by Gaza’s Hamas-run Civil Defence agency and local journacatalogs ecombineed to show at least four bodies, including a child and a woman, lying on the ground inside a tented camp.
The Israeli military said it was verifying the increates.
The Israeli military body reliable for managing passings into Gaza, Cogat, also declared that 41 aid lorries and six fuel tankers had been transferred to the north over the past day, and that a Ukindf leave oution had been able to deinhabitr polio vaccines to the north.
Cogat said there were also 600 lorry loads of aid defering to be picked up and spreadd at various passings, most of it by UN agencies.
The UN said no aid was permited into northern Gaza during the first two weeks of October, when the Israeli military began its impolite in and around Jabalia.
The UN’s acting humanitarian chief said a “trickle” of aid was permited thraw last week, after the US cautioned Israel in a letter to encouragently increase access wislfinisher 30 days or hazard having some military aidance cut off.
On Monday, the UN Office for the Co-ordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said it had been asking Israeli authorities for four days to access to the Falouja area of Jabalia but had been denied.
The OCHA also separated a video shoprosperg an request for help from a Jabalia dwellnt who said he was one of 32 people buried undersystematich a originateing annihilateed in an air strike on Friday.
“Eighteen of us got out. Fourteen people remain under rubble, including little kids. They are two, three and four-year-elderlys, as well as women. They’re under rubble. Ainhabit. They begged for me to recover them but I couldn’t,” Shamekh al-Dibes said.
Meanwhile, a recurrentative of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) who recently visited Gaza City said the suffering for the approximated 400,000 people in the north was “unimaginable”.
“Heavy combat and evacuation orders are tearing communities apart. While some are hopeless to depart, many, especipartner the elderly, unwell, and people with disabilities, are unable to depart. Other stay, believing nowhere is safe,” Stephanie Eller said in a video.
“Hospitals are overwhelmed, struggling with too many fortolerateings and conciseage of fuel, electricity, and water supplies,” she inserted. “People need food, water, medical attfinish and, above all, a respite from the ongoing presentilities.”
Hadeel Obeid, the chief nurse at the Indonesian hospital, also csurrfinisher Jabalia, said its water supply had been cut off and that was no food for the fourth consecutive day. She also said that the hospital needed perleave oution from the Israeli military to function its generator.
Israel started a campaign to annihilate Hamas in response to the group’s unpretreatnted attack on southern Israel on 7 October 2023, in which about 1,200 people were finished and 251 others were getn captive.
More than 42,000 people have been finished in Gaza since then, according to the territory’s Hamas-run health ministry.
