The Army of Israel announced this Saturday the opening of what it has presented as a “humanitarian zone” in the south of the Gaza Strip, and has re -uttered the inhabitants of Gaza City – the capital, in the north. That area, however, was already declared “humanitarian” in the past and, despite this, remained bombarded by Israel. It is now destroyed and already collapsed from displaced people from other parts of the strip.
The spokesman for the Israeli troops in Arabic, Avichay Adraee, has insisted that Israel “carries out an operation to eliminate Hamas in Ciudad de Gaza” and has demanded that the nearly one million people who concentrate in the capital are directed towards that southern area where they ensure that they will find “better humanitarian services.”
The territory that the army now designates as a humanitarian is the Al Mawasi area, on the coast of Khan Younis. At the beginning of the war, Israel already designated that area as a humanitarian, but continued to bombard it. During the last days, local authorities and United Nations representatives have remarked that this territory is already crowded with displaced population and that there is no necessary space to host the million residents that Israel intends to displace from Gaza City, nor the services that would have to supply them.
“From this moment, to facilitate the influx of people who leave the city of Gaza, we declare to the Mawasi as a humanitarian zone,” Adraee said in a statement in their social networks. The spokesman added that this area will have “vital infrastructure” such as campaign hospitals, water pipes, tents or medications, in efforts that have indicated that they will be coordinated with the UN.
Adraee has also pointed out that those who flee from Ciudad de Gaza must do it on the street of Al that, the road that follows the Mediterranean coast and has already hosted multiple massive displacements of civil population since the beginning of the war, in October 2023. “: Take the opportunity to move to the humanitarian zone and units thousands of people who have already done so”, has appealed Adraee.
Although the spokesman has indicated that the efforts in Al Mawasi are promoted by the United Nations, the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs has been unmarked from the instrumentalization of the aid to displace the Gazaties. In a statement, the agency recalled this Saturday that the actors involved in the conflict have the obligation to protect civilians regardless of whether they are in areas designated as “humanitarian” or “dangerous.” The agency added that it will remain in Gaza City to protect the right of the civilian population to stay in the municipality if you wish.
“In the last three days, Israeli forces have intensified their genocidal campaign and ethnic cleaning in Gaza City,” he warns from that Esperanza Santos municipality, emergency coordinator of doctors without borders. In a statement, the cooperative describes a desperate situation. Israeli bombs, he says, cause serious injuries continuously and have caused the destruction of “whole neighborhoods” in which there is almost no “not one standing building.” Everything, in a context in which to move to the south is difficult despite the Israeli statements. “The majority lacks means to travel,” says Santos, who adds that “there is no space” that is prepared to receive those people or “free of bombing.”
Sources in Gazati hospitals told the Arab press that Israeli attacks have killed at least 58 people this Saturday, of which 37 died in Gaza City.
Buildings indicated in red
The offer of the Israel army is accompanied by lead. Minutes after announcing the humanitarian plan for Al Mawasi, Adraee has announced imminent bombings against different floors of floors in Gaza City, which alleges, without providing evidence, which Hamas uses for military purposes. The spokesman has published two communications in which attached maps showing buildings indicated in red. And has been expressly addressed “residents” of those blocks already in near “tents”. “You are forced to evacuate,” he told them, urging them to move immediately “towards the humanitarian area of Al Mawasi.”
After a while, two of those towers, which local journalists describe as residential, have been bombed. Before, numerous people who had their refuge or residence have evacuated the buildings, which are a short distance from the Mushtaha tower, 14 floors ,.
Israel’s army is immersed in an offensive against Ciudad de Gaza that has already led him to control on the ground, according to his own calculations, 40% of that territory. On Friday, the Israeli authorities gave signs of going one step further in their war efforts against the municipality and announced attacks against some of the largest towers in the city.
Defense Minister Israel Katz declared on August 22 that the city of Gaza would happen to Rafah or Beit Hanoun – Gazati’s urbes that Israeli military force has left unrecognizable in these two years – if Hamas did not accept Israel’s conditions for the end of the war. That same day, the UN declared the famine in Gaza City and other parts of the enclave. The statement has lacked impact on Israeli operations, which have designated the municipality as a combat zone.
Since the famine is official in the Strip, the Gaza Ministry of Health has registered. Six of these deaths have taken place in the last 24 hours, as indicated by the Ministry this Saturday. From the beginning of the war, hunger has killed 382 people in the enclave. And, in total, 64,370 Palestinians have died to date in this war, according to the health authorities of the Strip; About half of those victims are women and children.
The British media BBC said Friday that intense Israeli bombings have “razed” several neighborhoods during the last four weeks, according to satellite images reviewed by their team of verifiers.
“What is left for us?” A man wondered in tears on Friday after leaving the Mushtaha tower in which he took refuge. “They bombarded my house, bombarded the place where I took refuge later and now bombard this other place where I was. Where should we go?”
