North Gaza is the centre of a renewed Israeli offensive that over the past five weeks has unleashed some of the Israeli military’s most devastating attacks
A Palestinian girl standing next to a damaged tent following an Israeli bombardment which hit a camp for displaced people from northern Gaza inside the Al-Jazira Sports Club in Gaza City on November 12th, 2024. Photograph: Omar Al-Qattaa/AFPlast year they targeted north Gaza, an area stretching across densely packed urban centres and small strawberry farms near the border with Israel.
“Life over the past four weeks, if I can sum it up, is a people being exterminated,” said Islam Ahmad , a freelance journalist from north Gaza who described helping bury neighbours in a mass grave. That is in part because Israeli forces have avoided holding much ground and Netanyahu has not committed to a viable postwar plan. Hamas has filled the resulting power vacuum.
“As soon as you evacuate those alleys and streets Hamas will regain control immediately,” he said. “The main problem here is that the government of Israel, and Netanyahu himself, is trying to bypass the real solution of finding an alternative to Hamas” to govern Gaza. The Palestinian Red Crescent, one of the few aid groups still operating there, said no ambulances could reach the hardest-hit parts of north Gaza. When a woman recently called for rescue after a relative lost a limb the dispatcher provided instructions over the phone on how to treat the amputation, a spokesperson said.
The Israeli military said in a statement that it had not bombed the hospital. In one case, the military said, it struck a target about 100m from the hospital. In another it blamed an explosive device planted by militants. In a third case it said it had no information. Hamas exploits civilians “by embedding terror infrastructure within, beneath and near sensitive sites, as in this case with the Kamal Adwan Hospital”, the statement added.
Ahmad, the journalist, said north Gaza had been relatively calm for months. Then fighting exploded again in October. Fewer than 95,000 people remain in the region, a fifth of its pre-war population, according to the UN, Israeli officials said there are far fewer. The relentless bombing has fuelled fears among Palestinians that Israel is intent on depopulating northern Gaza permanently.
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