North Gaza experiencing ‘one of the most violent campaigns of genocide’: Rights body

A prominent human rights organization has warned that the Israeli regime is subjecting the northern part of the Gaza Strip, which is under a genocidal Israeli war in its entirety, to “one of the most violent campaigns of genocide.”

The Geneva-based Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor sounded the warning in a statement on Monday.

“The occupation forces continue their invasion of large parts of northern Gaza since the evening of last Saturday, amidst airstrikes, fire belts, and artillery bombardment, including the bombing of homes on top of their residents, resulting in dozens of martyrs and wounded,” it cautioned.

“We warn of an unprecedented humanitarian catastrophe as the occupation tightens its siege on Jabalia Camp and the surrounding eastern and northern neighborhoods such as Tal al-Zaatar, al-Sikka, Beit Hanoun, and Beit Lahia, in addition to their presence in the western parts reaching Yafa Cemetery and al-Tawam Junction for the fourth consecutive day,” it added.

Israel ‘wiping out’ Jabalia in northern Gaza, residents warn

“Jabalia is being bombed as if the war has just begun and the world is blind about it,” said Salah, 60, a father of five who is a resident of Gaza City.

“We received preliminary information about the execution of five civilians by the occupation forces, including a woman, a man, and his son, during their attempt to flee from Jabalia Camp despite them carrying white flags.”

Thousands of people in the city of Jabalia, including its refugee camp, and the city of Beit Lahia were suffering from an almost complete depletion of food supplies, which had already become scarce due to the regime’s closure of crossings and its halting the flow of the limited aid and goods that used to enter the areas, according to the monitor.

The body also said the regime’s forces had, meanwhile, subjected Kamal Adwan Hospital in Beit Lahia to a siege using drones, besides targeting the facility’s surroundings with dozens of airstrikes and hitting its gate with smoke bombs. The forces had also cut off the only road used by ambulances to transport critical injuries from the hospital to the Baptist Hospital, it added.

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The campaign, it said, was aimed at systematically emptying northern Gaza of its residents, pushing them into forced displacement to the south, and bringing about complete destruction of the northern areas, where more than 85 percent of the buildings had already been destroyed.

The Israeli military is thus seeking to turn northern Gaza into a military zone in the absence of any war-related objectives that could necessitate the atrocities, the organization noted.

“We demand the United Nations and the international community ... immediately intervene to save tens of thousands of civilians in northern Gaza, stop the horrific ethnic cleansing taking place against them, and put an end to the genocide that the occupation has been committing for the second consecutive year.”

The aggression comes as part of the regime’s October 7, 2023-present war on the coastal sliver, which has so far claimed the lives of close to 42,000 people and wounded at least 97,590 others. Women and children comprise the majority of the victims.

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