The situation in Gaza is described as “apocalyptic”.
Israel’s military is now advancing with armored vehicles and bulldozers.
– There is no safe place for civilians to flee to, says UN chief Martin Griffiths.
Israel’s ground offensive in Gaza is expanding and new evacuation orders have also been issued for southern Gaza, which is already full of refugees from the north. The IDF is advancing with armored vehicles and bulldozers near Khan Younis where many Gazans have fled.
The president of the International Committee of the Red Cross on the ground in Khan Younis testifies to what she has just seen at the European Hospital.
– The things I saw there are worse than anyone should have to describe. What shocked me the most were the children who had horrific injuries at the same time as they lost their parents and had no one to take care of them, she says.
Impossible choices
About a million people have already fled south from the fighting in northern Gaza. Now Israel is urging civilians to evacuate both central and southern Gaza, where intense fighting is ongoing.
“Every time we think it can’t get any more apocalyptic in Gaza, it does,” said Martin Griffiths, the UN’s top emergency aid official, in a statement on Monday.
– People are ordered to move again. With little to survive on, they are forced to make one impossible choice after another, he continues.
For every dead Hamas militiaman, about two civilians die in the Gaza Strip, Israeli military sources told AFP.
The Hamas-run health ministry in Gaza claims that around 15,900 people, mostly women and children, have been killed since October 7, when the terror group attacked civilians in Israel.