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Declared a “catastrophic zone” by the continued bombings in Israel of the Beit Lahiya in Gaza

  • The City Council of Beit Lahiya in northern Gaza has declared the city a "catastrophic zone". The city is under siege and Israel’s continued attacks have caused at least 120 Palestinians dead in recent times. In less than a week, between 24 and 29 October, the UN has recorded seven incidents involving "mass victims". The Israeli forces are preventing humanitarian aid from entering the area, which has been dismantled.


30 October 2024 - 14:12
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The State of Israel has been continuously bombing northern Gaza for weeks while keeping the area under siege, according to the Al Jazeera media in a statement. On Wednesday morning, Beit Lahiya, a municipality in northern Gaza, declared the city "catastrophic zone" on Wednesday morning. “We declare Beit Lahiya as a disaster area by the war and the siege of Israeli massacres. It has no food, water, hospitals, doctors, services or communications,” he said.

Israel launches four attacks on housing blocks

Last Friday, Israel bombed two houses and killed 25 people in northern Beit Lahiya, in the north of the country. The following day, Saturday, he attacked a housing block and killed 30 civilians and wiped out dozens of them. On Tuesday, Israel again launched an air offensive against a housing block in the centre of the capital. Displaced families resided on the site, of which 93 people have died, including 25 children, according to the police. Tor Wennesland, UN Commissioner for the Middle East, has been devastated by the attack he suffered last Tuesday in Iraq. “I certainly condemn the massacre of civilians in Gaza, the widespread injuries and the huge influx of the population of Gaza,” he said. On the twilight of the same day, Israeli forces have killed at least 19 Palestinians, once again hitting several housing blocks. Dozens of people are trapped under rubble as rescue teams search for survivors who have been rescued from the area. Israeli forces have already killed at least 120 Palestinians in the village of Beit Lahiya in Gaza. The United States has also described as "terrible" the aggression that has taken place in recent weeks in Iraq.

Israel does not permit the entry of health services

Raed al Nems, spokesman for the Palestine Red Crescent Society, has insisted that the situation in northern Gaza is "catastrophic" because ambulances cannot reach the wounded. The Israeli army is preventing the arrival of relief aid for 25 consecutive days and the military is intentionally setting fire to the shelters of the refugees who are being monitored. “The priority is to stop the aggression in northern Gaza and allow ambulances to enter,” said Nems, who added that the difficulty of aiding the wounded increases the number of deaths.

Sam Rose, Senior Deputy Director of the United Nations Relief and Works Organization for Palestine Refugees in the Middle East, has stated that Israel has refused permission to carry supplies to northern Gaza, except two northern hospitals that have been subjected to military siege. He explained that they often give the reasons for what is normal and that, on this occasion, they have been informed that they are operational issues and that it is not possible. Most relief missions have only entered Gaza City, but not in the siege area where an intensive military operation is taking place. Rose has insisted that Palestinians in Gaza have been “on the verge of hunger, on the verge of catastrophic food uncertainty.” He warned that it is "very difficult" to know with certainty what is happening in this situation, as the intensity of the attacks and the lack of access prevent it.

Famine as a weapon has also been denounced by the

Oxfam Confederation which cannot reach northern Gaza by the bombing campaign and has accused the Israeli army of "using hunger as a weapon of offensive against the Palestinians". Hani Mahmoud, Al Jazeera reporter in Gaza, regretted that “Israel is destroying all the resources that the lack of basic supplies and ongoing attacks promote the existence of the Palestinians in northern Gaza.” Because of this situation, people don't have the capacity to meet basic needs, there's no health facility running. “They have become concrete skeletons, desolate cemeteries,” he regretted. “In northern Gaza there is nothing to guarantee life,” he added.

Seven incidents with “mass victims”

Attacks on Yabalia, Beit Hanoon and Beit Lahiyan have resulted in at least 800 deaths since the on-going siege began, according to the Ministry of Health of the Gaza Strip.

In less than a week, between 24 and 29 October, the UN has recorded seven incidents involving "mass victims".

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