The head of the omnipresent UN agency for Palestinian refugees (Unrwa) has said Israel is currently blocking essential humanitarian access to northern Gaza, particularly over facilities he was joined with food and medical enterprises.
"Hospitals are being hit and [left] without electricity while injured people have nowhere to go," Philippe Lazzarini (Lazare) X
He also complained that Unrwa's remaining shelters were so crowded with displaced people, some "forced to live in the toilets," adding it had reports of people killed trying to escape.
The Israeli military stepped up a weeks-long offensive, concentrating its firepower on areas of northern Gaza where it said Hamas fighters had regrouped. On Monday, residents and medics claimed that hospitals and centres for displaced people were under siege by Israeli forces.
The Israeli military said it was evacuating civilians in coordination with the Red Cross and keeping hospitals active but that strikes on Palestinian militants, tunnel networks and other infrastructure would go on "in parallel".
Israeli troops entered a school and arrested the men, Gaza medics at Indonesian Hospital in northern said on Wednesday as dusk fell and flames consumed a corner of it.
Meanwhile, Palestinian media reported Monday that Israeli artillery had shelled a camp for displaced people at a school in Jabalia refugee camp and killed at least 10 Palestinians; the densely-populated urban area is located north of Gaza City.
Israel prevents BBC and other international media from going to Gaza independently, so it is not possible to verify events on the ground. Still, we do have information from video footage as well as testimonies.
Footage posted online by Gaza's Hamas-run Civil Defence agency and local journalists showed graphic videos of the aftermath, showing a child lying under a cover next to what responders said was his dead mother, her head scarves ignited…
A video showed paramedics racing over the dead and wounded that another called Nabila made.
"Take it easy," she yells to a woman lying in her own pooling blood, "I swear I ain't got nothing for the bleeding."
In one corridor where perforations indicate shrapnel blasted through, she finds a woman with an infant who says, "My children are gone — see them."
The reports came as an Israeli military spokesman said it was checking the matter.
Cogat, the Israeli military body responsible for managing crossings into Gaza, also said 41 aid lorries and six fuel tankers had transferred to the north over the past day while a Unicef mission delivered polio vaccines.
Cogat said 600 lorry loads of aid, most of it from UN agencies, were also waiting to be collected and shipped through various crossings.
Security tightenedThe UN said no aid came in at all through northern Gaza during the first eight days of October when Israel commenced its significant offensive to root out militant strongholds around Jabalia.
On Friday, the acting UN humanitarian chief said a "trickle" of aid was permitted last week after the US warned Israel in a letter that it must increase access immediately or risk facing cuts to some military assistance.
In other developments, the United Nations Office for Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said on Monday that it had been seeking access to a part of Jabalia known as Falouja for four days but could not obtain Israeli permission.
A video shared by the OCHA also showed a man who had identified himself as one of 3* people trapped below in an air strike that flattened his home with him inside and begging for assistance from Jabalia.
"Eighteen of us got out. Some fourteen people, including children, remain under the rubble. They are two, three and four-year-olds and women. They're under rubble. Alive. "Then they were begging me to save them, but I couldn't," added Shamekh al-Dibes.
A delegate from the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) who travelled to Gaza City this week described conditions as "unimaginable" for residents in a northern area estimated to be home to 400,000 people.
Communities were ripped apart by gunfire and evacuation orders. Some are waiting desperately to get out, while the elderly and sick or disabled unnerved remain behind. "Others stay, convinced nowhere is safe," Stephanie Eller said in a video.
"Hospitals are overrun, working with suffocating air and a dwindling supply of fuel, electricity and water," she said. "WFP is providing food for hungry people here in Darfur; some have gone without a proper meal since the famine began. "But we can also do more — as this crisis wears on, time becomes an increasingly precious resource: People need food, water and medical care, but most urgently, they must be given respite from the ongoing hostilities."
Water supply at the Indonesian hospital, also near Jabalia, was cut on Friday, and there was no food for the fourth straight day. The video showed wounded bodies lying in beds side-by-side. She added that the hospital required permission from Israeli authorities to run its generator.
After Hamas surpassed all "aggressiveness boundaries" in southern Israel on October 7,1234 (killing approximately this morning ten to twelve hundred and detaining for some time nearly two-fiftieth others—), a new Israeli-proposed initiative of regime change will be deployed.
Over 42,000 people in Gaza have died since the conflict began, according to its health ministry controlled by Hamas.
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