SAD REALITIES......

 

THE CROSS

Gaza: In the North, Civilians Under a Deluge of Fire from the Israeli Army
Narrative
Under fire from a third Israeli army operation, residents of northern Gaza are cut off from the rest of the enclave. While no food or medical aid is reaching them, NGOs are warning of the ongoing "erasure of the Palestinian presence."
• Cécile Lemoine, correspondent in Jerusalem, LA CROIX
• 10/16/2024 at 6:08 p.m.

• It was the head that was hit. A precise shot. The frail bodies of three children lie in a pool of blood on the asphalt of the Al-Fallujah neighborhood in Jabaliya, in the northern Gaza Strip. The video, published on October 15, lingers a little further on, on the body of a man, his flesh torn to pieces.
• “There are no words to describe the horror of what we see in Jabaliya,” says Mohammed Abu Loay, a young recruit in the Gaza Civil Defense Forces who documents his work as a rescuer on social media. “The reality on the ground is much worse than what I am posting. There are dead bodies everywhere in the streets. People are trapped, no one knows where to go.”

For nearly ten days, the northern Gaza Strip has been under fire from an operation of unprecedented intensity by the Israeli army. After claiming that "Hamas was rebuilding its operational capabilities in the Jabaliya camp," the army ordered the 60,000 residents of Beit Hanoun, Beit Lahiya and Jabaliya to evacuate to the already overcrowded humanitarian zone of Al-Mawasi, before surrounding the north.
"No one dares to leave their homes anymore"

Ismail, a resident of Jabaliya who was displaced to Beit Lahiya, has decided to stay, like many others. “We have experienced all the horror of the war and now we would let them win by forcing us to leave? Of course not! We will never allow them to steal the North!” protests the 33-year-old former teacher.
Trapped, he describes a daily life of explosions, gunfire and incessant shelling: "People are being killed while they are in their homes. At the slightest movement, quadcopters spot you and shoot you down. The army also uses suicide tank robots that explode in the middle of neighborhoods, causing buildings to collapse. Evacuation routes are being bombed... No one dares to leave their homes anymore."

Due to the lack of journalists, both Gazan and international, images from northern Gaza are rare. Some residents share their daily lives on social media, to warn of the “genocide” they say they are experiencing: “No vegetables, no meat, no fruit, and even some legumes are exhausted,” Ezzideen Shehab, a doctor in Jabaliya, reports on X. “The internet is cut off in most areas, the telecommunications network is extremely poor, the only bakery that supplied the camp has been set on fire, and water wells are systematically targeted.”

"More than 300 critically ill patients trapped"
The besieged northern Gaza Strip has not received any food or medical aid since the beginning of the month. The three hospitals in the area have been ordered to evacuate critically ill patients and medical staff, but the lack of safe evacuation routes has made the process impossible.

“More than 300 critically ill patients are trapped in hospitals, which are running out of fuel and medical supplies, while the number of wounded is rising,” warns Fikr Shalltoot, director of Medical Aid for Palestinians in Gaza. The NGO wants to warn against the “erasure of the Palestinian presence” underway in the north of the enclave: “The world must act before Gaza is completely razed.”

In the same movement, Israeli human rights NGOs have denounced "alarming signals" indicating "the discreet implementation of the 'generals' plan'". This military project, defended before the war cabinet by retired generals, aims to eradicate Hamas, pushed to "surrender or die of hunger", with disregard for the lives of civilians who would have remained in the North: "The entire territory of the northern Gaza Strip will become a military territory, and this military territory, as far as we are concerned, will receive no aid", explains Giora Eiland, retired major general of the Israeli army, in a video.

"If the continued wait-and-see attitude of states allows Israel to liquidate northern Gaza, they will be complicit," protested Israeli NGOs in a statement. Threatening to limit their arms supply, the United States gave Israel 30 days to resolve the humanitarian crisis.

An article from the French publication La Croix, describing the Gaza situation, most details are rarely or never mentioned in most Western media, especially American major media, it's worth talking about it sometimes.... 

On the contrary, with the situation in Lebanon escalating barbarically every day, and totally out of control, more so as the American side refuses to demand/order Israel to stop its second genocide and crazy blind bombardments of civilian buildings in densely populated areas of Beirut and the entire country. 

The same exact tactics, excuses and brutality against a dislodged civilian population is taking place in Lebanon as described above for Gaza. While the entire world sits by silent and helpless.

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