A drone image shows displaced people at an 'Israeli' checkpoint as they are forced to flee Jabalia. Photo: Avichay Adraee/Reuters.
At least 100,000 Palestinians have been forced to leave northern Gaza in the last 24 hours, the UN reported on 15 November, as the already catastrophic conditions continue to worsen amid Israel’s continuous airstrikes and denial of aid delivery requests.
“Chaos, suffering, despair, death, and destruction in northern Gaza is a daily reality as access is at a low point,” stated Jens Laerke, spokesperson for the UN Humanitarian Coordination Office (OCHA), who spoke to reporters in Geneva earlier this morning.
All indicators in Gaza show that “we’re going in the wrong direction,” Laerke added.
“Displacement is at a high point, and it is near impossible to deliver aid in there,” he warned.
Staff working on the ground in Gaza told Laerke that UN efforts to deliver aid are being “stifled.”
“One of my colleagues described it as, from a human front for a humanitarian worker, which he is, [that] when you are faced with a situation like that, you want to jump. You want to jump up and do something. But what he added was, our legs are broken; we’re asked to jump, but our legs are broken. That is the picture of it right now.”
Israel is currently seeking to implement the so-called Generals’ Plan by forcibly displacing hundreds of thousands of Palestinians from their homes in the north Gaza towns of Jabalia, Beit Lahia, and Beit Hanoun while starving or killing anyone who remains.
A recent report from Israel’s Channel 12 TV showed starving and thirsty Palestinians fleeing through one of the Israeli army’s “drainage points” in Jabalia. At the drainage point, the soldiers abduct the men and some of the boys, claiming they are Hamas members, while terrified women and children flee, carrying whatever possessions they can.
The Channel 12 “Palestinian Affairs Correspondent,” Ohad Hemo, then ’interviews’ desperate and terrorized women and children to solicit anti-Hamas comments as they walk through the post-apocalyptic landscape.
