»Humanitarian aid to north #Gaza, where #Israel launched a ground offensive on Oct. 6, has largely been blocked for the past 66 days, the United Nations said Tuesday. That has left between 65,000 and 75,000 Palestinians without access to food, water, electricity or health care, according to the world body« https://apnews.com/article/gaza-aid-united-nations-f529bf77d09e609265179e259b799c6b
»Wednesday’s mass expulsion campaign from Beit Lahia comes two months into a brutal extermination campaign conducted by the Israeli military in North Gaza since October 6. Over 3,700 people have been reported killed or missing, according to the Gaza Government Media Office. Civil Defense teams have come under repeated attack and been prevented from operating in the area, leaving what officials estimate are thousands of people trapped under the rubble and bodies strewn in the streets.«
»“Suddenly my sister fell due to the bombing. I saw blood pouring from her, but I couldn't do anything. I left her in the street, and no one pulled her out. I was screaming, but no one heard me."«
»When those who made it finally arrived, they collapsed in the streets exhausted. Children cried from hunger and thirst [...]“We don't know what to do. We left our homes, and here we are living in the open, and no one is helping us. We are dying slowly here,” «
»After the checkpoint, families were forced to walk for hours more, through the day, making their way a harrowing 10 kilometers south to Gaza City. Some of the wounded fell on the road with no hope of getting treatment. "I was walking with my sister in the street,” said Rahaf, 16. She and her sister were the sole survivors in their family of an earlier airstrike that killed 70 people«
»Witnesses describe tear-streaked children covered in dust running panicked in the streets as warplanes & drones roared overhead. Some pleaded for water but soldiers refused to give them anything & instead poured water on the ground in front of them to taunt them, according to witnesses. At the checkpoint, Israeli troops separated the men & detained them as their families screamed in desperation. Witnesses described children clinging to tanks in a desperate attempt to stay with their fathers.«
»Israeli troops assaulted the school complex, shelled and bombed the area, and issued expulsion orders through quadcopters fitted with loudspeakers, according to witnesses, forcing terrified families outside in the middle of the night. Leaving much of their scant belongings behind, civilians were forced to walk for an hour and a half, along Salah al-Din road—the main thoroughfare running through the enclave—before being forced to pass through an Israeli checkpoint.«
»The Israeli military forced thousands of Palestinians in Beit Lahia in northern Gaza, to flee from one of the last remaining shelters and surrounding homes in the besieged town in the early hours of Wednesday morning, sending men, women and children on an hours-long death march under heavy artillery shelling and gunfire.«