Israeli occupation issued on Monday new “evacuation orders” in several areas across Gaza, with the UN relief agency saying there is only 14 percent of the Strip is not under the Israeli military ongoing orders.
Chief of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees, UNRWA, Philippe Lazzarini said recurrent mass enforced displacement is the dominating scene with the Israeli military ordering the residents of the Bureij and Nuseirat refugee camps to leave their homes.
The majority of the displaced population is flowing to the Deir Al-Balah city that is already packed with displaced families and has no sufficient space or resources to accommodate people, according to Lazzarini.
People in #Gaza are exhausted. Almost every day they are forced to flee their makeshift shelters, with nowhere safe to go: only 14% of the #GazaStrip has not been impacted by evacuation orders from the Israeli authorities.
This has to stop: Gaza needs a #CeasefireNow https://t.co/tsZgMLmcHm
— UNRWA (@UNRWA) July 29, 2024
The attacks on schools in the past two days have shattered any sense of safety left for people staying in evacuation centers and has pushed people into further internal enforced displacement, the UN body said, adding: “There is literally no safe place in Gaza.”
Meanwhile, the Israeli occupation military went ahead with artillery and air attacks the central area, with aggression being mainly concentrated on the Bureij refugee camp, located to the east of the central area.
Separate attacks have been taking place in Gaza City’s Tal al-Hawa neighborhood.
On the other hand, Israeli tanks have pushed deeper into Gaza’s two main southern cities, Rafah and Khan Younis, as battles between occupation soldiers and Palestinian resistance fighters raged.
Death Toll
Health Ministry in the besieged territory put the death toll of the aggression since October 7 at 39,363, noting that the number of wounded people reached 90,923.
“At least 39 Palestinians were martyred in the past day alone, with 93 other being injured, it ministry said in a statement.
Destruction to All Means of Life
Earlier during the weekend, the Israeli occupation soldiers appeared in a video blowing up Rafah’s main drinking water reservoir.
The Israeli newspaper Haaretz reported that Israeli soldiers and officers From the Israeli army brigade 401 exploded the main water supply reservoir in the “declared safe zone” in Tal Al sultan in Rafah in violation of international humanitarian law causing complete shortages… pic.twitter.com/NmJUzJOngI
— Mustafa Barghouti @Mustafa_Barghouti (@MustafaBarghou1) July 29, 2024
Commenting on the attack, Rafah Mayor Ahmed al-Sufi said it constituted “a crime against humanity”, saying the Israeli troops destroyed not only the tank but also a water well in the Tal as-Sultan neighborhood, west of Rafah. The destruction exacerbated the water crisis in the southern city, he added.
“The documented scenes of the occupation soldiers blowing up the Canada water tank, which was feeding the Rafah water network with 3,000 m3 per day, and the Canada Well, which operates at an operational capacity of 180 m3/hour, and the soldiers’ boasting while carrying out their mission reveal the truth of their goals of destroying everything that exists and destroying the necessities of life and their disregard for international laws,” he said in a statement.
Source: Palestinian media (Translated and edited by Al-Manar English Website)
