Israel has allowed almost no food aid into north Gaza for two weeks. Humanitarian groups say it leaves 400,000 people with the choice of eventual starvation or fleeing their homes to the south.
Palestinians evacuate the Jabalia refugee camp and the Sheikh Radwan and Abu Iskandar neighborhoods in the northern Gaza Strip on Saturday.TEL AVIV, Israel — Israel has blocked nearly all food aid from entering northern Gaza for the past two weeks, leaving some 400,000 Palestinians there with no good option, United Nations aid agencies say: Stay and starve, or follow orders to flee to the south, where there’s no guarantee of safety or shelters for the displaced.
Civilians in Jabalia say airstrikes from fighter jets and drones have killed people in their homes or as they tried to flee. Journalists are among those killed and wounded. Al Jazeera says its cameraman was shot live on TV by Israeli forces while reporting on the siege, and remains in critical condition.Gaza’s civil defense rescue workers say hundreds of people have been killed since the offensive began in the north. U.N. agencies say people are left with an impossible choice.
Israeli human rights groups petitioned Israel’s Supreme Court Tuesday with a demand that officials ensure aid continues to reach northern Gaza.A proposal by former Israeli national security adviser Giora Eiland outlines a strategy to pressure Hamas to release Israeli hostages the group still holds from its deadly Oct. 7, 2023, attack on Israel.
Israeli soldiers gather near a gate to walk through an inspection area for trucks carrying humanitarian aid supplies bound for the Gaza Strip, on the Israeli side of the Erez crossing into northern Gaza, on May 1.Another Israeli official, who spoke anonymously to discuss security plans, denied there was any connection between what’s happening in north Gaza and the “General’s Plan.
Milshtein said the pressure tactic did not work in part because north Gaza civilians were not evacuating en masse, despite the military’s orders.more than 50,000 people have been displaced from Jabalia to other parts of northern Gaza over the past two weeks. Mohammed el-Balaawy said he fled the camp under heavy Israeli fire with a group of 25 people but 10 of them did not make it — they were injured or killed trying to flee.
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