In addition to its ground operations and missile attacks against Lebanon, the Israeli army is increasing its attacks in the northern Gaza Strip. On Wednesday, October 9, these continued, while since Sunday, “evacuation orders” They were transmitted by the Israeli army, in relation to an arched area, at the northern end of the enclave, including parts of Gaza City, the towns of Beit Hanoun and Beit Lahya, close to Israeli territory. So many places were already bombed from the first hours of the war and partially emptied of their inhabitants. The orders directed the population, estimated at around 400,000 according to the Gaza governorate, to 1Ahem October, to head towards the south of the enclave.
At the same time, a military operation was carried out to surround the Jabaliya camp near Gaza City, which has been the subject of intense shooting and shelling since Monday. One mother, reached by phone Wednesday morning, said she did not “not being able to leave the camp with your children” and added: “Either way, whether we leave the camp to go south or stay here, the result is the same: we get shot either way. » Sunday, the 162ndmy A division of the Israeli army had begun the siege of this town where, according to Nadav Shoshani, spokesman for the Israeli army, reported on Tuesday afternoon, the ongoing operations are aimed at “grouping of Hamas forces whose objective was to launch attacks.” Indication of the fact that even if Hamas battalions are partially destroyed, its surviving elements continue to carry out guerrilla operations.
Orders to leave the area and move to the other side of the Netzrarim corridor, installed by the army and which now divides the enclave in two, do not appear to have been fully implemented. According to the United Nations, on Tuesday there were 70,000 people displaced in recent days throughout northern Gaza. These evacuation orders, recalls Juliette Touma, spokesperson for UNRWA, the United Nations agency responsible for Palestinian refugees, are similar to those “forced displacement, and now they are part of a context of restriction of movement in northern Gaza.”
Three hospitals affected
Evacuation orders were also sent to the three hospitals in the area on Monday. In Kamal-Adwan, the director issued calls for help, claiming that the army was threatening to invade his establishment. South of Jabaliya, Mohammed Salha, director of Al-Awda hospital, decided to ignore evacuation orders. “We are not going to move. If they want to evacuate us it will be by force. “We have injured people, we can’t transport them anyway.”he declared Tuesday night, reached by phone. Al-Awda continues to function as best it can, while new wounded arrive. The hospital received around forty people during the day on Tuesday. There the two operating rooms work non-stop. Seventy-nine employees of the 155 who previously worked at Al-Awda are no longer leaving. Additional beds have been installed in the hallways. Mohammed Salha also describes the extreme danger for those trying to flee the area, blocked by gunfire in the streets and the collapse of buildings destroyed by Israeli army bombs.
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