10 Months of War: Gaza's Dire Humanitarian Emergency Exposed #freepalestine #gazaunderattack

As the war between Israel and Hamas in Gaza enters its 10th month, NGOs are once again sounding the alarm. The Palestinians, who have been displaced several times in the enclave on the Israeli army’s orders, are crammed into overcrowded areas where humanitarian aid can no longer get through.

As the war between Israel and Hamas enters its tenth month, vast military operations are being carried out in Gaza, making the dire humanitarian situation in the enclave inexorably worse.

The conflict has displaced over 80% of the territory’s 2.3 million people. In Gaza City where 300,000 to 350,000 people are crowded together, according to the UN, Israel has intensified military operations in various neighbourhoods and issued multiple evacuation orders.

A leaflet seen by an AFP correspondent reads: "To all those present in Gaza City, the safe passages will allow you to pass quickly and without inspection from Gaza City to shelters in Deir Al-Balah and Al-Zawiya [in central Gaza]." "Gaza City will turn into a dangerous battlefield," continues the leaflet.

But where can Gazans evacuate to? "Since October, there hasn’t been a place in Gaza that is completely safe. As a reminder, even in the southern part of the enclave, which was supposed to be secure by the end of 2023, the mortality rate was already at 30%. So the situation remains dramatic," says Jean-François Corty, a humanitarian doctor and president of the NGO Doctors of the World. "This civilian population is living in an open-air prison, because Gaza is 40 kilometres long and eight kilometres wide, and is completely closed off."

Gaza City, which was home to a quarter of the Palestinian enclave's inhabitants before October 7, was almost completely destroyed during the first weeks of fighting in 2023. In recent months, hundreds of thousands of Palestinians have returned to their ruined homes in the wake of various Israeli evacuation orders. "Now people have to cram into tiny areas, tiny alleys and tiny camps that are so overcrowded that people are now sleeping under the stars. They don't know where to go, they're heading into the unknown," says Ahmed Bayram, media adviser for the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC). "The situation when people arrive is appalling. In the areas where we are supplying water, for example, there is an extreme fuel shortage. We are only supplying half the amount of clean water that we did last week. The situation is not improving. On the contrary, the situation is getting much worse for everyone in the region."


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