Israeli Occupation Commits A new Massacre in Jabalia

The areas designated by the Israeli army and called “D5” include: Jabalia al-Nazla in the northern Gaza Strip, reaching the northern outskirts of Gaza City, which are the areas of Saftawi and Ahmed Yassin Street, and parts of the Sheikh Radwan neighborhood.

In contrast, the Ministry of Interior and National Security in Gaza praised “the steadfastness of the Palestinian people in their homes in the North Gaza Governorate in the face of the barbaric Israeli aggression.”

The ministry called on citizens, in a statement, to remain steadfast and not leave the areas that the occupation threatened to evacuate this morning.

Heavy bombing

Meanwhile, the invading occupation forces opened fire on the homes of the residents east of Jabalia camp.

Palestinian sources said that Israeli artillery shelling targeted the eastern areas of Khan Yunis city in the southern Gaza Strip. They added that the occupation forces blew up residential buildings in Jabalia camp and the Al-Tawam area in northern Gaza.

In Gaza City, the occupation bombed a house in the vicinity of Al-Sikka Street in the Al-Zeitoun neighborhood, and artillery targeted the east of the neighborhood, coinciding with fierce battles between the Palestinian resistance and the occupation forces.

Israeli drones also fired towards the Saftawi area, northwest of Gaza. In the central Gaza Strip, naval boats fired towards the Abu Ma’la area, west of the Nuseirat camp.

Medical appeals

Humanitarianly, the Arab Baptist Hospital in Gaza City appealed to citizens to quickly donate blood to save the lives of dozens of wounded people who arrive at it due to the ongoing Israeli raids on the northern Gaza Strip.

The acting director of the hospital, Dr. Fadl Naeem, told Al Jazeera that a large number of the wounded who arrived at the hospital were in critical condition and needed larger quantities of blood.

The Ministry of Health in Gaza also called on the relevant institutions to provide the hospitals in the northern Gaza Strip with fuel, to save the lives of the wounded and sick before it is too late.

Pictures taken from Kamal Adwan Hospital showed children suffering in intensive care units due to fuel shortages.

In a related context, the Director of Civil Defense in the northern Gaza Strip, Colonel Ahmed Kahlout, told Al Jazeera that the work of the Civil Defense forces in Jabalia involves great danger, due to the lack of coordination between the Red Cross and the occupation forces to provide safe paths.

Kahlout explained that the Civil Defense cannot move to about 80% of the area of the northern Gaza Strip, despite the dozens of distress calls it receives from there.

A year after the Israeli war on Gaza, UN experts described the situation in the Strip as the most severe humanitarian crisis since the end of World War II.

They warned that genocidal attacks and collective punishment against Palestinians threaten to collapse the multilateral international system.

Israel continues its massacres, ignoring the UN Security Council resolution to end them immediately, and the International Court of Justice’s orders to take measures to prevent acts of genocide and improve the catastrophic humanitarian situation in Gaza.

With American support, the ongoing Israeli genocide in Gaza for a year has left more than 140,000 Palestinian martyrs and wounded, and more than 10,000 missing, amid massive destruction and famine that has killed dozens of children and elderly people.