Palestinians in Jabalia killed with ‘unspeakable cruelty and sadism’: UN rapporteur

The UN special rapporteur on the human rights situation in the occupied Palestinian territories says Israeli forces are committing “another massacre” in northern Gaza’s Jabalia refugee camp. 

In a social media post on Sunday, Francesca Albanese said Palestinian civilians in Jabalia “are killed – both in groups and one by one – amid unspeakable cruelty and sadism” by Israeli troops “who have accepted to be ‘willing executioners’ of a genocidal plan.”

She further noted that the Israeli attacks are being conducted with Western support and weapons.

“It blows my mind to think that WE KNOW what Israel is doing and altogether we cannot stop it. Looking at where we were 100 years ago, no much progress has been achieved,” Albanese wrote on X.

A senior Palestinian diplomat to the United Nations also sounded the alarm over Israel’s ongoing siege of northern Gaza.

“What is happening in northern Gaza now is a genocide within the genocide,” Palestinian Ambassador Majed Bamya, the deputy permanent observer to the UN, wrote on X.

Israeli troops in Jabalia are burning houses and bombing them with tanks and artillery fire, using Palestinians as human shields. 

The Israeli military is also trying to force medical personnel to evacuate the three hospitals in the area.

Israeli strikes have killed hundreds of Palestinians in an offensive focusing on the Jabalia refugee camp over the past few days.

The Israeli military is also imposing starvation warfare and preventing clean water from reaching the inhabitants.

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The regime

Meanwhile, the Gaza Media Office also said in a statement that the Israeli army is intensifying genocide in northern Gaza, including the Jabalia refugee camp, with "massacres and deliberate killings."  

It also accused Israeli forces of stopping rescuers from assisting victims of attacks in Gaza’s besieged north.

"The occupation army is preventing rescue teams and civil defense from retrieving more than 75 martyrs out of 285 who have been killed during its ground assault," the statement read

It "is committing crimes against humanity and engaging in premeditated killing by bombing displacement and shelter centers, carrying out horrific massacres against civilians through targeted shelling of gatherings of children and women," the office noted. 

Residents on the ground say they have been isolated from the rest of Gaza, with Israeli forces not allowing anyone to enter or exit the north.

In addition to the Jabalia camp, Israeli soldiers have also isolated Beit Hanoun and Beit Lahia in the far north of the Gaza Strip.

According to local media reports, there are no longer any functioning hospitals in the north of the Gaza Strip.

Israel continues to bombard civilian infrastructure and displacement shelters with no warning.

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Hamas censures Israel’s ‘criminal military campaign’ in north Gaza

The Palestinian Hamas resistance movement has denounced the ongoing Israeli military raids in the northern part of the besieged territory. 

In a statement, Hamas called out the “criminal military campaign in northern Gaza, the tightening of the siege, the isolation of the area through intense firepower from Gaza City, and the escalation of bombings and massacres targeting unarmed civilians”.

“The silence of the international community over the genocide that has been ongoing for more than a year… constitutes a license” for Israel to “continue it escalate it and expand it to other countries of the region." 

The beginning of the end for the Zionist project in Palestine

The Israeli genocidal war against the Palestinians and Lebanese has turned the whole world against Tel Aviv.

On day 373 of the Gaza genocide, Israel’s airstrikes and artillery fire claimed the lives of more civilians, many of them women and children.

At least 300 people have been killed by Israeli forces as the military siege of northern Gaza enters a ninth day with tens of thousands of Palestinians trapped by the ground invasion.

Since Israel began its deadly war on the Palestinian territory in October last year, more than 42,000 people, mostly women and children, have been killed. Over 98,000 others have been injured.

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