Occupation authorities force thousands of Palestinians to evacuate Northern Gaza Strip

Occupied Al-Quds, ST) – Thousands of Palestinians this morning were forcibly displaced from the town of Beit Hanoun and its surroundings in northern Gaza Strip after the Israeli occupation army ordered the residents to evacuate.

Wafa  News Agency reported that thousands began to flee on foot to escape the occupation’s shelling of the area, heading towards Gaza City and Jabalia in the northern Gaza Strip, which are also being subjected to airstrikes and heavy artillery shelling.

The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) explained in a report last week that the forced evacuation orders issued by the occupation army have become a daily measure applied against the residents of the Strip who are forced to leave in order to save their lives. It indicated that families are forced to move again and again, knowing that safety does not exist anywhere in the Strip.

The number of displaced persons in Gaza Strip is estimated at about 2 million, including 1.7 million living in camps in the Al-Mawasi area southwest of Gaza Strip, under tragic living conditions due to the siege imposed by the occupation, preventing the entry of aid, and destroying electricity, water, and sewage networks, which led to the spread of malnutrition, diseases, and epidemics. The displaced families are also not safe from the occupation’s bombing, as the occupation commits almost daily massacres by bombing displacement camps and shelters.

Since the start of the genocidal war on October 7, the Palestinians in Gaza Strip have been facing the suffering of repeated displacement, as the occupation army orders the residents of residential areas and neighborhoods to evacuate them in order to destroy them and storm into them. They ignored the ongoing international demands to stop the war and allow aid into Gaza Strip, disregarding the Security Council’s calls for a ceasefire, and the orders of the International Court of Justice to take measures to prevent acts of genocide and improve the catastrophic humanitarian situation in Gaza Strip.

Raghda Sawas