More than Half a Million Palestinians evacuated as the Attacks of Israel intensified
The Israeli forces have escalated their military operations all around Gaza, from the north to the east and the west and even crossed into Rafah city in the south. On Tuesday, Israeli warplanes bombarded a home in the Nuseirat refugee camp, and 14 Palestinians, among them children, were killed, according to the Palestinian news agency WAFA.
In northern Gaza, the command was issued by the Israeli military for more residents to be relocated to prevent the clashes between the Israeli soldiers and the Hamas fighters. This is the time of the revolution, which comes months after Israel has announced that it has defeated Hamas in the region. In the Jabalia refugee camp, which is the biggest in the north, the gunfights were still carried on until late Tuesday as the Israelis surrounded the evacuation and shelters with their tanks, bulldozers, and armoured vehicles. The camp is almost dragged back to life.
Rafah, which is on the Egyptian border, the residents said that they saw smoke and heard explosions when the Israeli forces attacked a group of houses in the eastern part of the city. The Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of Hamas, destroyed an Israeli carrier with an Al-Yassin 105 missile in the east of As-Salam district, which, in turn, caused the death of the carrier crew. Up to now, the Israeli military has not made any statements about this accusation.
The United Nations has revealed that more than 500,000 Palestinians were made to leave their homes by the increasing Israeli military operations in both the southern and northern parts of Gaza. Farhan Haq, the UN deputy spokesperson, stated that the evacuation orders in the north have caused the least number of 100,000 people to leave their homes.
More than 1.5 million Palestinians who were made to evacuate by bombing and shelling have now taken shelter in Rafah. These people were forced to leave other areas of Gaza where the bombing was at its worst in October.
The UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has voiced his disgust at the condition in Rafah, and his spokesman has said that Guterres is “appalled” by the rising military endeavours. He again stressed the need for a humanitarian ceasefire as soon as possible, which would guarantee that “civilians are seen as special people and must be respected and protected at all times.
The deported Palestinians have ruined the distribution of aid, and many families are now living in camps that are so makeshift they cannot be food during the catastrophic hunger. Israeli forces still keep the Rafah border crossing, seized on May 7, from Gaza, which they use for the delivery of humanitarian supplies into Gaza. The minimal aid only came to the Strip on October 7.
Israeli Foreign Minister Israel Katz said that Egypt should be ” convinced ” to reopen the Rafah crossing to let the continuous delivery of international humanitarian aid into Gaza. To this, Shoukry, Egypt’s Foreign Minister, condemned Israel’s actions, stating that the Rafah crossing taken by Israel and the ongoing military operations are the biggest obstacles to the aid, which is not entering Gaza.
The time that the conflict has been ongoing, now in its seventh month, it has led to the deaths of more than 35,000 people in Gaza, most of them women and children, according to Palestinian health officials. The Palestinian Authority declared that almost 80 per cent of Gaza’s health centres are not working anymore. The civil defence teams of Gaza are under a lot of pressure to do their work. The facilities they are working on are not adequately equipped, and insufficient vehicles are available. The outcome of the tragedy may last for six years to be managed by the recovery of the Palestinian bodies buried in the rubble without the use of tools.
While the situation in Gaza finally deteriorates, the international community continues to demand a ceasefire and an increase in humanitarian aid which shows the urgent need for a solution to the conflict.
