DayofPal-The Municipality of Beit Lahiya in northern Gaza Strip declared on Wednesday the city a “disaster area” amid prolonged weeks of relentless Israeli bombardment and tightened siege.
The municipality made the declaration after the Israeli army carried out two deadly massacres on Tuesday in Beit Lahiya, northern Gaza, killing at least 112 Palestinians, most of them women and children.
“We declare that the city is a disaster area due to the Israeli war of extermination and siege, and it has no food, water, hospitals, doctors, services, or communications,” the municipality said in a statement.
For 26 relentless days, Israel has been waging air and ground assaults, tightening its grip on northern Gaza and rendering all hospitals, medical services, and ambulances out of service, with death toll has risen to 1250.
The Palestinian Civil Defence further reports that over 100,000 people are stranded, cut off from food and water, while countless others lie trapped beneath the debris of destroyed homes. Rescue workers, thwarted by the ongoing siege and bombardments, are unable to reach those in desperate need.
Oxfam has said it is unable to reach people in the north of the enclave and accused the army of using starvation as a weapon. A spokesperson for the Palestine Red Crescent Society in Gaza called the situation “catastrophic”.
Sam Rose, Senior Gaza deputy director of the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees, called the situation in northern Gaza “absolutely desperate”, declaring that “It’s horrific, incident after incident being meted out to a population which is on its knees.”
OCHA stated that at least 347 people were killed in reported “mass casualty incidents” in Gaza between October 24 and October 29, with many more missing, suspected to be trapped under rubble.
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