Civil Defense: The occupation targets everything that might help people live in the north..
The Israeli occupation army committed a new massacre this morning, Monday, by targeting families besieged in Jabalia refugee camp in the northern Gaza Strip while they were trying to reach food stores; which led to the death of 10 citizens and the injury of 40 others.
Palestinian Civil Defense spokesman Mahmoud Basal said that the occupation committed a massacre against the besieged residents of Jabalia who were trying to reach the main food supply center of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) to get food for their families.
Basal, the Civil Defense spokesman, added that the Israeli occupation artillery shelled the citizens with several shells with heavy air cover; It resulted in the death and injury of dozens, noting that the bodies of the martyrs and wounded are lying in the streets and rescue teams cannot reach them due to the difficult field conditions.
He explained that these people were driven by hunger and headed to the agency’s supply center in search of flour, in light of the stifling siege imposed by the occupation on the northern region for 10 days, coinciding with a military operation that is the most violent since the beginning of the war on October 7, 2023.
Basal described what happened as “dipping the morsel in the blood of its owners”, stressing that the occupation deliberately targets and destroys everything that might help citizens to live and endure; to force them to forcibly migrate in implementation of the “generals’ plan”.
He explained that the civil defense crews cannot fully reach all the targeted areas in Jabalia until this moment, as the occupation targets anyone who moves or tries to approach the wounded and martyrs.
He continued: “It is unfortunate that the bodies of the martyrs are left in the streets to be devoured by stray dogs, and the lives of dozens of wounded people are lost daily, who issue distress calls to save them in vain because the occupation prevents us from reaching them; amidst shameful international silence regarding the crime of genocide.”
Basal stressed the need for immediate intervention by international institutions and the international community; in order to save 260 thousand people in northern Gaza, 60% of whom are children and women, who are subjected to systematic methods of killing, siege and starvation.
Since the beginning of last week, the occupation army has imposed a siege on the Jabalia refugee camp with the start of a ground invasion of the area, coinciding with intensive shelling by aircraft and artillery; and preventing any trucks loaded with food, water and medicine from reaching the northern Gaza Strip.
The United Nations World Food Program (WFP) has warned of the disastrous impact of the Israeli blockade on the food security of the Gaza Strip, stressing that the occupation has closed the main crossings connecting the Gaza Strip and its north, and has not brought in any food aid since the beginning of October.
The World Food Program noted in a statement that kitchens and food distribution points in northern Gaza have been closed due to Israeli airstrikes and evacuation orders, noting that the only bakery (Shalfouh) operating in the north of the Strip was closed after it was bombed and its flour stores were burned.
The program’s director in Palestine said that “the north is essentially isolated, and the rapid deterioration there comes at a time when aid entering Gaza has reached its lowest levels in months, commercial goods are barely arriving, people have exhausted all means of adaptation, food systems have collapsed, and the threat of famine has become real.”
The World Food Program (WFP) said in a statement that kitchens and food distribution points in northern Gaza had been closed due to Israeli airstrikes and evacuation orders, noting that the only bakery (Al-Shalfouh) operating in the northern Gaza Strip had been closed after it was bombed and its flour stores burned.
The program’s director in Palestine said that “the north is essentially isolated, and the accelerating deterioration there comes at a time when aid entering Gaza has reached its lowest levels in months, commercial goods are barely arriving, people have exhausted all means of coping, food systems have collapsed, and the threat of famine has become real.”
According to observers, the atrocities, the stifling siege, and the prevention of food, medicine, and fuel supplies in northern Gaza represent the implementation of the “generals’ plan” through which the occupation’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu seeks to empty the northern Gaza Strip of its population (700,000 people) who have decided to stay in their homes and neighborhoods, or their fate will be “starvation.”
