According to the UN, around 100,000 Palestinians have been expelled from the northern Gaza Strip over the past month.
The northern Gaza governorate – which includes Beit Lahya, Beit Hanoun further east and Jabaliya, which was home to the enclave’s largest refugee camp, to the south – was also the first to be invaded by the Israeli army at the start of its offensive. land, at the end of October 2023. But the attack that this area has suffered since October 6 It is, however, of unparalleled brutality.
Several hundred people died in a month in the far north of Gaza; The Palestinian civil defense estimates a total of 1,300 dead. Many bodies are found under the rubble. On October 19, according to the Ministry of Health of the Hamas government in the Gaza Strip, 87 people were killed after several buildings were attacked in Beit Lahya. On October 29, the Palestinian civil defense recorded 93 deaths after an attack on a building, still in Beit Lahya.
Since October 6, according to the UN, some 100,000 Palestinians have been forced to flee the governorate, and the Israeli military has suggested they would not be allowed to return. There are only about 75,000 people left in the Beit Hanoun-Beit Lahya-Jabaliya triangle.
To learn more about the mechanics of “ethnic cleansing” which takes place in the north of the Gaza Strip, you can read this article by our journalist Clothilde Mraffko.
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