Between 75,000 and 95,000 people remain in northern Gaza, besieged by Israeli troops and tanks, and under aerial bombardment, which has particularly punished the towns of Jabalia and Beit Lahia for the past month. During this period, more than 1,800 people died and 4,000 were injured, according to the Gaza government, linked to the Palestinian group Hamas.
The government of the Gaza Strip has denounced the “crime of ethnic cleansing and genocide” that Israel is committing particularly in northern Gaza, where the population has been forced to leave their homes several times this month and also to leave the area afterwards so that the army could intervene. issue evacuation orders. In Jabalia and its refugee camp alone (the largest in the Palestinian enclave), around 70,000 people have been forced to move within the besieged area or a little further south, towards the town of Gaza, as Juliette Touma, director of communications for the United Nations Agency for Palestinian Refugees (UNRWA), explains to the EFE agency.
Many casualties have died due to Israeli air and artillery strikes, as well as the lack of adequate medical care in northern Gaza, where medical supplies and medical personnel are scarce and of three hospitals, one is out of service. service and the other is out of service. two others are affected by the Israeli offensive. Kamal Adwan and Al Awda hospitals have both warned they cannot treat all the injured and sick, and last week dozens of patients and doctors were detained at the former hospital after days of military siege .
Gaza Civil Defense emergency teams, tasked with rescuing people from the rubble, and ambulances have been unable to access the north for several days due to Israeli attacks. For this reason, many injured people go untreated and others remain under collapsed buildings, so the actual number of victims could be much higher than 1,800 dead. In total, since the start of the Israeli offensive against the Gaza Strip in October 2023, more than 43,000 people have lost their lives and more than 100,000 have been injured across the enclave.
