UN official Gemma Connell said that many Palestinians in… Gaza strip They followed evacuation orders issued by the Israeli army and sought safety in specific areas, only to find that they had only a small space left in the densely populated Strip.
Connell, who leads a UN team in Gaza, spoke of what she said was a “human chessboard” within which thousands of people, who have already been displaced several times, are fleeing. She added that there is no guarantee that their next destination will be safe.
Since the seventh of last October, the Gaza Strip has been subjected to continuous Israeli aggression, which has led to the death of more than 20,000 civilians, most of them women and children, in addition to the destruction of vital facilities, the displacement of residents, and the destruction of their homes.
From inside the city of Deir al-Balah in the central Gaza Strip, Connell said “People were heading south with mattresses and all their belongings in trucks Pickups, trucks and cars trying to find a safe place.”
“I spoke to many people,” she added. “There is so little space left here in Rafah that people don’t know where they are going, and it is as if people are being moved inside a human chessboard, because there is an evacuation order somewhere.”
She continued, “People are fleeing from that area to another area. But they are not safe there.”
Certificate from inside the hospital
Connell spoke about the death of a 9-year-old boy named Ahmed in Al-Aqsa Hospital in Deir al-Balah, where many of the wounded from the Israeli air strikes were transferred last night.
She spent about an hour and a half in this hospital yesterday, Monday. “He was not in an area where evacuation orders had been issued, but rather in an area that was supposed to be safe. There is no safe place in Gaza,” she said, adding that new air strikes occurred while she was in the hospital and that she personally witnessed new wounded being brought in.
The UN official showed the text of a notice from the Israeli army urging residents of at least 6 neighborhoods in central Gaza to evacuate on Friday.
While the Palestinians mourn their martyrs, the Israeli Prime Minister pledged Benjamin Netanyahu By continuing the war.