Situation in Jabalia is becoming worse day by day
The situation in the Jabalia refugee camp is realistically very catastrophic.
Witnesses tell us that the army has been actively operating in the heart of the camp and the border towns in the north of the Strip until now.
The military and the humanitarian situation are getting much worse there day by day.
Humanitarian supplies are not allowed to be transferred to the north of Gaza.
The UN said no new food entered northern Gaza since the beginning of October, and this will certainly lead to a new wave of starvation there.
People say they are running extremely low on food in the camp and going through days without any water source.
New wave of Israeli attacks in Gaza’s Jabalia kills eight
We are receiving reports of a new wave of Israeli air strikes hitting a residential house in northern Gaza’s Jabalia refugee camp.
Medical sources said at least eight Palestinians were killed in the attack, bringing to 30 the death toll from today’s attacks across the Strip.
The refugee camp has been targeted with renewed intensity for more than a week as Israeli forces have imposed a siege on the site with no food or medical supplies being allowed in.
Thousands of people are trapped inside the refugee camp too scared to leave. According to an Al Jazeera correspondent and Doctors Without Borders, known by its French initals MSF, Israeli snipers have been killing people trying to flee despite issuing evacuation. Other residents have decided to stay as the designated “humanitarian safe zones” have also been attacked.
MSF reported on Friday that members of its staff were also trapped in the camp for fear of being shot while Israeli forces were turning northern Gaza into “uninhabitable ruins”.
Director of Gaza Health Ministry: 200 killed so far in Israel’s siege of north Gaza
Our colleagues at Al Jazeera Arabic have interviewed Dr. Mounir al-Bursh, head of Gaza’s Health Ministry, who gave a terrifying picture of Israel’s siege of the northern Strip, which he said has been going for eight days now.
Here are a few of his key points summarised:
- The situation at al-Awda Hospital, the Indonesian Hospital and Kamal Adwan Hospital is catastrophic.
- Families are besieged for the eighth day. Many dead bodies are left on the streets
- Twenty-two people were killed in Jabalia yesterday. There was another massacre today in central Jabalia.
- Two hundred people have been killed in seven days in northern Gaza.
- Thirty-two patients are still at the Indonesian Hospital. Two are in intensive care.
- At Kamal Awdan Hospital, 177 patients remain.
- More than 31 patients at al-Awda Hospital.
- More than 240 medical staff are still serving at the three hospitals.