“I'm still alive,” said this Saturday morning a Gaza resident evacuated with his family to a school of Christian nuns, after the harsh Israeli bombings at night on the Strip, where the deaths increase by hundreds day after day and the The humanitarian situation is increasingly on the brink of collapse.
The interruption of telephone and internet connection in Gaza is increasingly prolonged and the information reaching outside the enclave is increasingly limited.
This is about 1.1 million people – around half of Gaza's population – who continue to move south this Saturday, while the Israeli Army gave an ultimatum until 3:00 p.m. (Spanish peninsular time) so that civilians who have not yet moved can move to the south of the enclave along specific roads.
The humanitarian crisis in the Strip is rampant due to the constant attacks by the Israeli Army that have left at least 2,115 dead and more than 8,714 injured, figures that in just one week of war are close to the 2,250 Palestinians who died in the 2014 conflict. with Israel that lasted for two months.
Among the fatalities are 724 minors and 458 women, which is more than half of the total number of deaths recorded since the beginning of the war, last Saturday, due to a surprise attack by the Islamist movement Hamas, which left more than 1,300 dead in Israel.
Faced with the avalanche of wounded, medical centers are suffering from a shortage of medicines and medical supplies, as well as a lack of electricity due to Israel's total siege of Gaza, which prevents the arrival of food, water, goods or fuel.
The catastrophe is perceived in the Al Awda hospital, in the city of Jabalia, located in the north of the enclave and which Israel asked to evacuate.
The center's health personnel, 35 doctors and nurses, refused to leave it due to the impossibility of removing the wounded, after the Israeli Army threatened to bomb the center and gave them 24 hours to leave, according to the official Palestinian news agency. Wafa.
WHO asks for medical supplies to enter
First of all, the World Health Organization (WHO) insists that Israel allow the entry of medical supplies from Egypt “to meet the urgent needs in Gaza,” and on Friday a plane with material landed in the Egyptian city of Al Arish, near of the Rafah border crossing, which connects Egyptian territory with the Strip.
“We are ready to deploy supplies as soon as humanitarian access through the crossing is established,” declared WHO Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus on the social network to reconsider the decision to evacuate 1.1 million people.
The images of the destruction of almost entire neighborhoods and of residential buildings reduced to rubble prevail among the information that emerges more and more in dribs and drabs, while Israel declared that between last night and early today it bombed “on a large scale” Hamas targets, including which he said had caused “dozens of deaths” and had killed a head of the militia's air system.
“Hamas terrorists are hiding in terrorist tunnels located under houses in Gaza City and civilian buildings,” the Army alleged in relation to its extensive offensive.
For their part, local media said that the airstrikes left dozens dead and injured in the town of Beit Lahia, in northern Gaza.. There were also attacks against the Nuseirat market, in the center of the enclave, and against the house of a Palestinian family in Khan Yunis, in the south, where there were a large number of dead and wounded who were still being collected from the rubble.
The harsh attacks have led to the annihilation of about 50 families whose members died almost entirely, which constitutes about 500 people, according to official sources cited by the digital Sanad.
Now, when there is speculation about an imminent land military incursion by Israel – which is accumulating troops, tanks and military vehicles on the perimeter of Gaza – the population displacement inside the Strip is reaching unprecedented numbers.
“In the last 12 hours alone, hundreds of thousands of people have been displaced,” the UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) said in a statement today.. According to him, “the exodus continues towards southern Gaza,” and “in just one week, almost a million people have been displaced.”