The Israeli Defense Force has warned the Palestinians in Gaza that they are going to leave for an imminent attack on Hamas in the 1948-Israeli War
Israel has ordered more than a million people to leave northern Gaza, presumably to prepare for an imminent ground offensive. Its military strategists appear to be planning the depopulation and reoccupation of at least part of an area home to around 2.3 million people — nearly half of them children — and most of them descended from people driven from their homes before and during the 1948 Arab-Israeli war. We must understand that these are human beings at grave risk, not just numbers.
Israeli forces have attacked Gaza six times from 2006 until the recent siege, killing well over 4,000 people. According to the Jerusalem-based human rights watchdog B’Tselem, that figure includes 405 in 2006, 1,391 in 2008 and 2009, 167 in 2012, 2,203 in 2014, 232 in 2021 and 33 in 2022. Each time, casualties for Palestinian civilians have outnumbered combatants.
The Israel Defense Force said they were ready to strike Gaza City, and they were massed on the border ready for an invasion.
Jonathan Conricus said that northern Gaza will be the scene of Israel’s attack on Hamas leaders.
The IDF on Sunday again urged Gaza residents to move from the northern part of Gaza to the south and said that it would not carry out any operations along the evacuation route from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. local time.
More than 1,300 people were killed in the attack launched by Hamas in southern Israel, as well as 29 US citizens.
There are many people in front of the Palestinian gate. They all are waiting to get out of here, but the Palestinians are not here to open the gate and the Egyptians are not there yet too from the Egyptian side. So we are all waiting, what’s going to happen? Nobody has any information.” She said that she did.
One person was killed and three others were wounded in a northern Israeli village near Lebanon, which has been the site of several strikes.
JERUSALEM — Gaza’s 2.3 million residents are struggling to find clean, safe water — and some are drinking brackish water from wells, raising new health concerns in a Palestinian territory that’s under siege from Israel.
Israeli-Hamas War: Water is scarce in Gaza, and Blinken is back in Israel, after the Israeli-Israel attack last week
Americans who want to leave Israel are doing so on planes and boats, in a slow and uncertain process. The State Department says flights are leaving from Ben Gurion International Airport on Monday and Tuesday.
On Sunday, U.S. nationals and their immediate relatives were told to report to the seaport in Haifa for a chance to board the U.S.-organized ship leaving Israel for Crete. Some people were told to come back another time, as the crowds of people showed up.
The Israeli army says Hamas is responsible for the humanitarian consequences of the violence and chaos that followed last weekend’s attack.
The people who were left behind included those who were wounded in Israel’s bombardment, as well as people with disabilities or old people who were unable to get out of the north.
Israel says it will not stop its attacks until it has completely destroyed Hamas. Benjamin Netanyahu said last week that every Hamas member is dead.
The U.S has already sent a warship to the eastern Mediterranean — a measure it says is aimed at deterrence. It has sent some small diameter bombs to Israel, as well as more anti-ship missiles, and is sending more missiles to Israel in order to protect it from Hamas rockets.
Secretary of State Antony Blinken landed back in Israel on Monday after a visit last week, reiterating U.S. pledges of support for Israel — while also calling for aid and supplies to be allowed to enter Gaza.
The border was closed because of Israel’s strikes on the Gaza side. Israel says there’s no cease-fire deal in place to open the crossing; the U.S. says it’s working on it.
Even if the crossing opens, there are still questions about how the aid would be distributed. A serious challenge to any efforts to distribute water and fuel is the destruction of roads leading to the crossing.
He said there would be a mechanism by which assistance could be given to people who needed it.
The trucks that are loaded with humanitarian aid are waiting to cross from Egypt into Gaza through the Rafah crossing.
Source: Israel-Hamas war: Water is scarce in Gaza, and Blinken is back in Israel
Power shortages at Gaza hospitals, a warning warning for the future of humanitarian emergency medicine in the era of rapid evaporation
Losing electricity would plunge the hospitals into a new crisis as life support and other systems are shut down — even as more of the injured and dead continue to be brought in.
Hospitals in Gaza, which have been inundated with roughly 9,000 people wounded in Israeli attacks, only have enough fuel to keep their generators running through Monday night, the U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs said late Sunday.