What’s Israel doing in north Gaza now?

As it conducts significant ground and air assaults and has killed dozens in recent days, Israel has shut off north Gaza for more than a week, preventing any aid from entering.

Everything you need to know about the current situation there is provided in this summary:

What actions did Israel take?

Tens of thousands of people in northern Gaza have been engulfed in a siege since last week, when Israel’s military launched an assault on Jabalia.

Military vehicles, drones, and sand barriers are being used by the Israeli army to divide northern Gaza from Gaza City.

Why is it doing that?

Israel claims that its actions in Jabalia are intended to “stop Hamas from regrouping.”

Additionally, it asserts that its goal is to completely eradicate armed Palestinian resistance in the north.

What’s happening to the people in north Gaza?

People in north Gaza claim that this is one of the most challenging times in a horrifying year.

According to Hani Mahmoud of Al Jazeera, “many of the casualties are children and women, and they are arriving at the hospital either in pieces or soaked in blood.”

Despite having issued evacuation orders, Israeli snipers have been killing people trying to flee, according to an Al Jazeera correspondent and Doctors Without Borders.

Some residents have decided to stay, not trusting the Israel-designated “humanitarian safe zones” that it attacked anyway.

Israel’s assaults have killed at least 200 people over the past week in the north, according to Mounir al-Bursh, head of the Palestinian Ministry of Health in Gaza.

Despite the claim that 400 000 people are trapped in the north, according to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), tens of thousands of families are still under siege inside the Jabalia camp.

According to reports, both medical teams and ambulances are being hit.

What does Israel want? To occupy Gaza?

The Israeli government’s goal, according to Gideon Levy, a columnist for Israel’s Haaretz newspaper, is to expeminate all Palestinians, but the Israeli government appears to be doing so.

“Israel by itself declared that, basically, Hamas as a military force is totally thrashed. So why does it continue? Israel wants to see all of Gaza’s Palestinian inhabitants vanished, he continued.

Israel withdrew from Gaza in 2005, but it has remained a land, air, and sea blockade since then.

Israel has stated on numerous occasions that it does not want to retake Gaza during the last year of fighting in the besieged enclave.

Some Israeli officials, however, have pushed for building settlements in Gaza.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has suggested a system similar to the one in the occupied West Bank, with Palestinian Authority or local non-Hamas entities in charge of civil affairs.

Israel’s real goal remains obscure, but the timing of its siege on the north is interesting, according to Levy.

Israel is taking advantage of the situation in Gaza and engaging in those activities without having any military objectives there, he said, “User] under the cover of the war in Lebanon… when the entire world is looking upon Lebanon and]the possible strike by Israel on Iran.”

Would it be legal for Israel to occupy Gaza?

The UN, Amnesty International, and other aid organizations still refer to Gaza as “occupied territory” despite the ongoing siege there.

International law would be violated by an Israeli military or physical invasion of Gaza.

If it continues in the same direction as it has in the occupied West Bank, the violation would only get worse.

Palestinians are denied access to their land, Israeli soldiers are raiding and killing with impunity, and there are other violations.

On Palestinian land that was forced into Palestine, there are more than 750 000 Israeli settlers.

A occupying power must make as few changes as possible without altering the territory’s status quo, according to international law. Additionally, an occupying power should not occupy the territory of its own citizens.

Additionally, the occupying party must abide by rules that prohibit the flow of humanitarian aid to the occupied peoples’ property, which Israel is not currently doing in north Gaza.

Source: Aljazeera