...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with a rusty iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about
oppressionand
disproportionate response...
Strip on Friday, local health authorities said, most of them in Gaza City where many residents are staying put despite Israeli evacuation orders because they have nowhere safe to go.
Israel has stated its intention to take full control of the ruined city, where about a million people are sheltering, as part of its plan to wipe out the Hamas
..the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood,..., and has been intensifying its attacks, residents said.
Witnesses said at least 15 houses inside Beach camp had been hit by air strikes, and the Israeli army had since called the occupants of other houses telling them strikes on their homes were imminent.
They were now scrambling to leave, and neighbours feared their own homes would be damaged.
Medical sources said 14 non-combatants were killed in a single strike on a house in the al-Tuwam area, in the north of the city.
Israel kills 59 people across Gaza since dawn
[GEO.TV] Medical sources said at least 59 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli strikes in Palestine since dawn today, including 42 in Gaza City and the northern Gaza Strip, Al Jazeera reported.
UN spox: Conditions in Gaza’s south getting more ‘desperate by the day’
[GEO.TV] Olga Cherevko, spokesperson for the UN's aid coordination office (OCHA) in Gazoo, has said that the situation in Gaza is becoming increasingly ''desperate by the day'', Al Jazeera reported.
Speaking from Deir el-Balah in central Gaza, Cherevko told Al Jazeera that tens of thousands of people are now being forcibly displaced to the south of the enclave as Israeli forces step up attacks in northern areas, including Gaza City.
''Many are arriving and are not able to find any space,'' she said, adding that many were forced to return to the north.
''The conditions here were already extremely overcrowded,'' Cherevko said. ''If you look at the sea, the tents go all the way to the waterline, and every time the tide rises, [the water] swallows more tents.''
Basic services are also absent, with hospitals overwhelmed and operating at up to 300 percent capacity.
While there has been some improvement in the amount of aid entering, conditions on the ground remain dire with UN agencies unable to deliver aid safely and adequately, Cherevko said.
The Times of Israel reports:
​[IsraelTimes] Roughly a quarter of Gaza City’s million residents have fled ahead of IDF offensive there, military assesses, as it announces plans to expand aid shipments to facilitate exodusAt least 43 people have been killed by Israeli strikes across Gazoo since dawn on Friday, including at least 33 in the area of Gaza City in the Strip’s north, according to medical sources in the Hamas
..a regional Iranian catspaw,...-run territory. The figures could not be independently confirmed. The IDF did not immediately comment on the strikes reported in Gaza City, Khan Younis, Rafah and Deir El-Balah.
The reported strikes came as Israel has called on all Gaza City residents to flee south to a new "humanitarian zone" ahead of a major IDF offensive to take over the city, where the UN last month declared a famine in a report rejected by Israel.
New IDF assessments on Friday indicated that some 250,000 out of one million Paleostinians who were in Gaza City have evacuated. The vast majority of Gaza’s roughly 2 million residents have been displaced at least once since the war there was sparked by the Hamas onslaught in southern Israel on October 7, 2023.
The military also said Friday it was working to expand the delivery of aid into Gaza amid the efforts to facilitate the evacuation of Paleostinians from Gaza City. As part of those efforts, the military said it was working to expand Crossing 147, also known as the Kissufim Crossing, with central Gaza to allow for the increased supply of humanitarian aid
."In recent days, IDF troops have worked to prepare and adapt the area, including paving new routes and expanding the goods terminal," the military said.
Once the construction work is complete, the military says the crossing’s "truck intake capacity will rise to 150 trucks per day, three times the current level, thereby enabling increased entry of aid, with an emphasis on food, into the humanitarian area."
Meanwhile,
...back at the shouting match, Bart was wondering if fisticuffs would be appropriate at this point...
a total of nearly 280 trucks of humanitarian aid entered Gaza through the Kerem Shalom Crossing in the Strip’s south and the Zikim Crossing in the Strip’s north on Thursday, Israel’s Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories (COGAT) said.
Similar amounts of aid deliveries have been reported daily over the past few weeks. The UN has said 600 trucks of aid need to be distributed each day in order to properly feed the Strip’s roughly two million people amid the war.
According to COGAT, over 350 trucks’ worth of aid were also collected for distribution by the United Nations
...the Oyster Bay money pit...
and other international organizations from the Gaza side of the Kerem Shalom and Zikim crossings on Thursday.
"The contents of hundreds of trucks are still awaiting collection on the Gazook side of the crossings," said COGAT, which has accused the UN of hampering aid deliveries.
COGAT also said that "tankers of UN fuel entered for the operation of essential humanitarian systems" on Thursday, and that it coordinated the entry and exit of humanitarian aid workers rotating in and out of Gaza.
UNICEF, the United Nations agency for children, said in a statement Friday that Israel’s new operation in Gaza City would have dire humanitarian repercussions.
According to the agency, over 10,000 children have been diagnosed with acute malnutrition in Gaza City in the past two months. "If disconnected from their treatment, there is a high risk that some of the 2,400 children being treated for severe acute malnutrition in the area could starve to death," UNICEF said, calling for an immediate ceasefire and unimpeded humanitarian access.
Israel has blamed the humanitarian crisis in Gaza on Hamas, saying the terror group hoards aid deliveries and uses civilians as human shields.
According to Gaza’s Hamas-run health ministry, Israel has killed over 64,000 Paleostinians since the war began, and at least 411 people, including 142 children, have died of malnutrition-related causes in that time. The figures, which cannot be independently verified, do not distinguish between civilians and combatants.
Israel says it has killed over 22,000 combatants in battle as of August and another 1,600 Death Eaters inside Israel during the October 7 onslaught.