According to medical sources, the Israeli military has launched tanks into Deir el-Balah in central Gaza for the first time since Israel launched its assault on the besieged territory in October 2023, killing at least 49 Palestinians in Israeli-led attacks across the country.
A day after its military forced thousands of residents to flee the areas’ southern and eastern neighborhoods, forcing thousands of people to flee to the Mediterranean coast and south to Khan Younis, Israel launched a ground offensive on the city’s densely populated southern and eastern neighborhoods on Monday.
At least three Palestinians were killed and several others were hurt by tank shelling that hit homes and mosques in the area, according to local doctors.
According to Al Jazeera’s Tareq Abu Azzoum, who was reporting from Deir el-Balah, gunfire was audible as Israeli tanks began to roll into the area on Monday morning.
He claimed that “we can see that the entire city is being attacked by Israelis.” “We were unable to fall asleep last night.”
Israeli bombardment is ongoing, according to the statement. Israeli military installations continue to bombard various residential areas. Residential homes were flattened before three more squares were destroyed in the city.
He claimed that donkey carts and other forms of transportation were frequently used by Deir el-Balah residents to flee.
Israel’s attacks get worse.
At least five people were killed in a tent in Khan Younis, southern Gaza, as a result of an Israeli airstrike, including a husband, wife, and their two children, according to the medical personnel.
Four aid seekers have been reported dead near a distribution center run by the US- and Israeli-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) since dawn on Monday.
In a separate Israeli bombardment in Jabalia al-Balad in the north, five additional Palestinians were killed.
Following an Israeli artillery strike on the nearby Jabalia al-Nazla area, the Palestine Red Crescent Society reported that its teams had recovered one person’s body and evacuated three injured people.
According to a source at al-Shifa Hospital, drone strikes were reported in Gaza City and left people dead.
The Gaza Ministry of Health reported that Israeli forces had killed at least 134 people and injured 1,155 others the day before. Since the start of the war, at least 59, 029 people have died in Gaza.
At least 19 people died from starvation in a single day, according to Gaza health officials on Sunday, highlighting the desperate state of the aid situation.
The World Food Programme’s representative for Palestine, Antoine Renard, claimed in an interview with Al Jazeera that he had been warned for “weeks” that the Palestinians in Gaza were facing starvation.
From occupied East Jerusalem, Renard said, “You have a level of despair that people are willing to risk their lives just to receive any of the assistance actually coming into Gaza.”
We can clearly see how high the number of people who are suffering from malnutrition is actually rising to levels that have never been seen before.
As the humanitarian situation for Palestinian refugees continues to deteriorate, UNRWA, the UN agency, reported receiving “desperate messages of starvation” from inside Gaza, including from its staff.
“Manmade suffering in Gaza must be stopped,” he said. In a statement posted on X, UNRWA said, “Lift the siege and allow aid to enter safely and at scale.”
900, 000 children in Gaza are varying degrees of malnutrition, according to Amjad Shawa, the organization’s head.
Israel must abide by international law, according to a joint statement from 25 nations, including the United Kingdom, France, and other European countries.
The suffering of civilians in Gaza has reached new levels, according to the foreign ministers of the 25 nations, including Australia, Canada, and Japan. They also condemned “the drip feeding of aid and the inhumane killing of civilians, including children, who seek to meet their most basic needs of water and food.
The statement read, “The Israeli government’s aid delivery model is dangerous, causes instability, and undermines the dignity of Gazans.”
Source: Aljazeera
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