Palestinians facing an Israeli military operation in the north of the Gaza Strip are “enduring unspeakable horrors”, said this Saturday 19th the acting head of the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (Ocha), Joyce Msuya.
“Scary news from northern Gaza, where Palestinians continue to endure unspeakable horrors under siege by Israeli forces. These atrocities must stop,” Msuya wrote on the X social network.
Israel earlier this month launched a new military operation in northern Gaza, claiming that the Islamist movement Hamas was regrouping in the area. More than 400 people have died in this region since the start of the operationaccording to local medical sources.
The Palestinian Islamist movement, which has governed Gaza since 2007, is weakened after a year of war and the assassination on Wednesday of its leader, Yahya Sinwar.
The war in Gaza began after the incursion, on October 7, 2023, of fighters who killed 1,206 people in southern Israel, most of them civilians, and took 251 hostages, 97 of whom are still in captivity, according to US counts. AFP based on official Israeli data.
In the Israeli reprisal offensive against Gaza, a territory of 2.4 million inhabitants before the war, they died 42,519 Palestiniansaccording to data from the Ministry of Health of the Hamas government, considered reliable by the UN.
(With information from AFP).
