“The deadly days of siege on the camp have been long JabaliaAnd whoever has flour or canned food has run out, and even if they do exist, how can he knead and bake if he has no wood or fire? This is in addition to the disaster of not having drinking water… the situation is very bad.” With these words, the Palestinian activist Majed Omar expressed the suffering of the people of northern Gaza As a result of the siege and the Israeli military operation.
For the fourteenth day in a row, it continues The Israeli occupation army war Extermination And starvation in the northern Gaza Strip, especially in the town of Jabalia and its camp, where a stifling siege and starvation is imposed, under continuous bloody bombardment and the blowing up of homes over the heads of their residents.
As for Marwan Al-Barash, a lawyer and a resident of Jabalia in the northern Gaza Strip, he revealed to Al-Jazeera Net an aspect of the suffering of the besieged residents in northern Gaza, saying, “The Israeli occupation forces are using hunger as a weapon after they completely prevented the entry of water, food, medicine, and diesel fuel into Jabalia andBeit Hanoun andBeit Lahia“Since the beginning of the military operation on October 6 of this year.”
He added, “The food available is what the families had before the start of the military operation. There are some stalls or small points of sale that sell a few canned goods, but they are very expensive. For example, the price of a box of chickpeas or fava beans for 20 shekels is about 6 dollars.”
But the problem, as Al-Barsh sees it, is that those who do not have food cannot search for it easily, due to the absolute air control of the occupation via drones and…QuadcaptorWhich bomb or shoot anyone who moves in the street or even sticks his head out of the window of his house.
Al-Barash concluded his speech by saying, “Now most people dip bread in tea to satisfy their thirst, and the lucky ones are those who have a little thyme or dukkah to eat from their bread.”
Inhumane situation
The worsening thirst and hunger prompted the Civil Defense Service in Gaza to appeal to the international community to bring food and medical aid to the northern Gaza Strip.
The agency's spokesman, Major Mahmoud Basal, said, “200,000 Palestinians in Jabalia are without food, drink, or medicine in light of the Israeli war of annihilation for the 14th day in a row.”
Another warning was issued, this time by the Director of the World Food Program in Palestine, Antoine Renard, who warned that food supplies would run out within a week and a half in northern Gaza.
In turn, the Director-General of the World Health Organization, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, said on Thursday that almost everyone in the Palestinian Gaza Strip is starving, and that this is an “inhumane” situation.
He called for the immediate delivery of humanitarian aid to children suffering from malnutrition Severe cases who require urgent treatment.
The matter was not limited to preventing the entry of aid, as officials in… United Nations The occupation army opened fire on UN aid convoys heading to northern Gaza at least 4 times within 3 months.
The UN officials said that, on September 9, the Israeli army detained at gunpoint a UN convoy participating in the response to…polio, For 7 and a half hours, claiming that a number of people in the vehicles were wanted.
Killing by starvation
Meanwhile, the Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor warned that hundreds of thousands of Palestinians are threatened with death from hunger and thirst in Jabalia, Beit Lahia, and Beit Hanoun in northern Gaza. As a result of Israel's announced and implemented decision to prevent any aid or goods from reaching them for several weeks.
The Euro-Mediterranean Observatory explained in a statement that about 200,000 Palestinians in the North Gaza Governorate have been unable for 14 full days to obtain any food supplies or drinking water, as a result of their siege inside their homes or shelter centers to which they seek refuge, at a time when the Israeli army continues its invasion of the region and committing Murders led to the death of more than 350 Palestinians and the injury of hundreds of others, in addition to the widespread destruction of homes and residential buildings.
The Observatory revealed that dozens of Palestinians trapped in Jabalia camp were forced, under the weight of hunger and after running out of all the few food supplies they had, to go last Monday to a center affiliated with the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Refugees (UNRWA).UNRWA) to obtain food for their families, but the Israeli army targeted them with shells, which led to the death of 10 and the injury of at least 40 others.
The Euro-Med Monitor said that those who survive the intense bombing are threatened Israel By killing him through starvation and thirst, which reflects the clear intention to use starvation as a killing weapon and impose living conditions intended to effectively destroy the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, as part of the crime of genocide that has been ongoing for more than a year.
He also pointed out that the residents who had to move to Gaza CityThey, in turn, lack shelter and do not have any food supplies, as the Israeli army prevents all aid and goods from entering the city.
Hunger weapon
Regarding the reasons that push Israel to use the weapon of hunger against the people of northern Gaza, writer and political researcher Abdullah Aqrabawi says, “The Israeli occupation’s adoption of the principle of starvation in the northern Gaza Strip confirms that it still wants to displace the Palestinians, and it cannot do that with military machinery, intimidation, or deterrence.” “As a result of the real steadfastness of the population.”
He added in an interview with Al Jazeera Net that there is real and great steadfastness based on the conviction of the Palestinian people of the necessity of remaining in their land and challenging the occupation, even if they pay heavy prices because of that.
Aqrabawi confirms that the occupation launched this battle against the Palestinian people in northern Gaza, so it resorts to using tools of collective punishment and targeting civilians, not only with starvation, but also with mass killing, demolishing homes, and leaving no places for shelter, in an attempt to force civilians to leave their homes and head south.
According to Aqrabawi, there must be a qualitative and unprecedented Arab-Islamic movement that uses new tools, especially in the countries of the Ring, the West Bank, and the 1948 territories, to put pressure on the occupying state and its allies to stop the displacement process in the northern Gaza Strip, because the Palestinian people used everything they have for steadfastness and resistance, and new elements must enter the scene. .