According to the WHO, forcing hospital patients to evacuate can be a death sentence. According to the New York Times, the Israeli operation has been delayed due to weather conditions.
The fear of a humanitarian crisis in Gaza is growing. Israel cut off water, food transport and electricity from the area, which has made the situation difficult for many civilians in the area.
Israel has given an evacuation order to more than a million people to settle in the northern part of Gaza. Thousands of Palestinians have fled to the southern part of Gaza.
– The situation is catastrophic. We haven’t eaten, we haven’t slept. We don’t know what to do. I have placed my trust in God, said the news agency to AFP Jumaa Naserwho had fled northern Gaza with his wife, mother and seven children.
Israeli military spokesman Jonathan Conricus told CNN that Israel will begin the operation once civilians have left the area. It has also announced that it will turn on water and electricity only after the extremist organization Hamas releases the people it kidnapped last week.
Evacuation routes are not safe
Even though the residents of the area have been given an evacuation order, many residents of the area do not know where to run to.
Le Monde’s Jerusalem correspondent Clothilde Mraffko writes that many Gazans have nowhere to flee. Some have also been afraid to leave their homes due to the continuous bombings, and not everyone has a car.
Le Monde also writes that Israel has struck against Palestinian evacuation transports. According to the Palestinian authorities, at least 70 were killed and 200 wounded in the attack on Salah al-Din road on Friday.
The British newspaper Guardian writes that Israel would have also bombed the supposedly “safe” exit routes.
The newspaper bases its information on satellite images and social media images collected by the Palestinian human rights organization.
The neighboring country Egypt has also not agreed to open the border crossing point on the border between Gaza and Egypt.
WHO: Evacuating hospitals is a death sentence
Forcing thousands of hospital patients to evacuate to already full hospitals in southern Gaza could be a death sentence for the sick and wounded, the World Health Organization warned in a statement.
The WHO says in a statement that it strongly condemns Israel’s repeated orders to evacuate 22 hospitals treating more than 2,000 patients in northern Gaza. According to the health organization, forced evacuation further worsens the humanitarian and public health disaster.
According to the WHO, some patients are treated in the corridors of health care facilities and outside them in the surrounding streets due to the lack of hospital beds. According to the organization, the health facilities in the southern part of Gaza are unable to respond to the dramatic increase in the number of patients.
According to the statement, health care workers are forced to choose between abandoning critically ill patients, risking their own safety by staying in the hospital or risking the lives of their patients by trying to transfer them to facilities that do not have the capacity to receive more patients.
In addition, tens of thousands of people in northern Gaza seek shelter in and around the open spaces of hospitals, as hospitals are considered places of refuge. According to the organization, this is how people also protect hospitals from possible attacks.
– Their lives are also at risk when health facilities are bombed, WHO writes in a statement.
Israel prepares to strike
Israel began preparing for a ground attack after the fighters of the extremist organization Hamas, which controls Gaza, managed to surprise the country’s security authorities by attacking Israel last week Saturday.
According to Israel, at least 120 people were taken hostage. At least 1,300 people died in the attack.
The New York Times reports, citing its sources, that the Israeli ground operation was scheduled to begin this weekend. However, it was delayed due to weather conditions.
The conflict has also spread to neighboring countries. Over the weekend, Israel carried out an airstrike on an airport in Syria.
Today, Israel said that it carried out attacks in Lebanon in response to the firing from Lebanon.