‘Organized genocide’: People in northern Gaza being starved, bombed, exterminated

Israeli regime has launched a full-scale extermination and ethnic cleansing campaign in northern Gaza with thousands of people forced to evacuate, including doctors.

A Gaza-based doctor Ezzideen Shehab in a post on X, formerly Twitter, said what is happening in northern Gaza is a “real genocide” as the regime forces are forcing them to leave the area.

“Today, the Israeli army forced us to flee for the third time from our previous place of refuge, threatening an area where more than 60,000 people live,” he tweeted on Saturday.

“We fled in a heart-wrenching scene. People are walking through the streets, not knowing where to go… walking as if they are heading to the gallows, fear gripping them,” he hastened to add.

No food has entered northern Gaza since the beginning of this month as the Israeli regime continues to weaponize starvation against the Palestinian people in order to force them to leave.

Journalists on the ground in northern Gaza, including in Jabalia, have reported about Israeli tanks approaching civilian areas, artillery shelling intensifying and quadcopters controlling the movement of people as they run helter-skelter for shelter.

“The residents of northern Gaza are facing the largest campaign of genocide aimed at emptying their city of them,” Euro-Med Monitor said on Saturday, referring to new evacuation orders.

The Geneva-based rights group had on Friday warned that residents of northern Gaza are “facing the largest campaign of genocide aimed at emptying their city of them.”

“Palestinians in northern Gaza are being annihilated,” wrote Maha Husseini, a Gaza-based human rights activist and strategy director at Euro-Med Monitor.

Dr. Shehab pointed to the gravity of the humanitarian crisis in northern Gaza.

“The Indonesian Hospital, where I used to work, has completely shut down due to the continuous bombingS targeting anything that moves around it,” he wrote in a tweet.

“Yesterday (Friday), the Israeli army blocked a World Health Organization blood truck from entering hospitals in northern Gaza.”

He said people in northern Gaza are facing an “organized genocide, witnessed by governments around the world, live in front of everyone,” vowing to continue sharing updates from there.

“Don’t stop talking about us, don’t stop sharing—because we are being wiped out,” he wrote.

Meanwhile, around 400,000 people remain trapped in northern Gaza’s Jabalia camp amid incessant attacks that have claimed hundreds of lives in recent days.

"Nobody is allowed to get in or out; anyone who tries is getting shot," Médecins Sans Frontières project coordinator Sarah Vuylsteke wrote on X on Friday.

In a message of defiance and resilience, many Jabalia residents have taken to social media platforms in recent days, vowing to stay put. "We will not leave, we die, and we don't leave."

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