Israel again bombs northern Gaza, where UN warns of famine. international

The Jabaliya refugee camp, Gaza’s largest, once again became the site of Israeli bombardment this Sunday. According to Hamas government health officials, at least 33 people have lost their lives, including several children. According to the United Nations, 51 Palestinians killed in the Strip in the past few hours bring the death toll in the strip during the current war to more than 43,600, about 70% of whom are women and children. Jabaliya, located in the northernmost region, is facing its worst humanitarian crisis amid an intensified military offensive – the third since the beginning of the war – which Israel launched in early October.

“We urgently request the arrival of essential supplies and ambulance services, as well as the lifting of the siege in northern Gaza,” Kamal Adwan Hospital director Hussam Abu Safieh claimed in a message, warning of some cases of malnutrition. And famine. The United Nations confirms this, “although this is not surprising given the precedents of war”. According to the United Nations Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA), famine is looming, while Israel allows only 30 trucks a day to come through, meaning 6% of the population needs aid.

The Jewish state uses hunger as a “weapon of war”, recalls Philip Lazzarini, the head of that organization. He emphasizes that this is a situation directly created by man and can be reversed by political decisions. The Famine Review Committee (FRC) has issued a warning expressing concern about the “imminent possibility” of famine in the Strip and elaborating on the need for “urgent measures” in the north of the Strip to “mitigate this humanitarian disaster”. Told from.

Israeli officials have responded that the FRC’s predictions never come true and are “biased”, according to the Coordination of Government Activities in the Territories (COGAT), which oversees civilian activity in occupied Palestine.

According to media such as the newspaper, Israeli military sources have indicated HaaretzThat its aim is to empty northern Gaza of its population and to no longer allow residents to return. In addition to forced evacuations amid military attacks from the ground and air, Israeli authorities are preventing the arrival of substantial amounts of food, water and medicine.

New attacks in Lebanon

Meanwhile, on the Lebanese front, Israel has once again targeted paramedics on the front lines of rescuing bombing victims this Sunday. An airstrike in Adlun, in the Saida district, south of Beirut, has killed three health workers from the Islamic Health Authority, a civil defense group of the Shiite militia party Hezbollah, Israel’s designated enemy in Lebanon. A day earlier, seven other paramedics were killed in separate bombings by Israeli aircraft in the Lebanese cities of Deir Qanoun, Ras al Ain and Ain Baal. So far, 189 of these professionals have been killed in Israeli strikes in that Arab country.

This Sunday, another bomb blast at a center for displaced people in Almaat, north of the Lebanese capital, also killed 23 other people, at least seven of them children, while another 13 were killed in separate Israeli attacks. killed, mainly in the south of the country and in the eastern Baalbek region, Lebanese newspaper reports L’Orient-Le JourBoth are Shia dominated areas.

The latest number of victims of Israeli attacks in Lebanon, released by the Lebanese Ministry of Public Health this Sunday afternoon, brings the total number of deaths from Israeli attacks in the country to 3,189, while the injured now exceed 14,000. The figure includes deaths since the start of the Gaza war in October 2023, when Hezbollah again began harassing northern Israel with rockets in a show of solidarity with the occupied Palestinian territory.