Al Jazeera Net correspondents
Gaza- For the fifth consecutive day, the Israeli occupying forces launched a massive ground attack against the areas of Beit Hanoun, Beit Lahia and Jabalia, under a stifling siege of their inhabitants, the third since the beginning of the aggression against Gaza.
The situation is getting worse by the minute, as occupying forces target every moving object and prevent water, food and medicine from entering the northern governorate, amid intense bombardment from artillery and aerial.
Abu Youssef fled the Bir al-Na’ja region on the morning of October 6, under bombardment and artillery shells, towards the Jabalia camp, in search of safety and to escape the horror of the shells, only to then face the same fate and the same state of suffocation. headquarters in the camp.
Difficult situation
Abou Youssef says the situation in the north is very difficult, and death pursues people in the alleys of the streets, and “quadcopter” drones shoot at any moving object, in addition to artillery bombardments and gunfire rockets everywhere, and “ghosts moving through the streets.”
He added: “We are besieged in the Jabalia camp and we pray to God to remove this cloud from us. The situation in the north is indescribable: houses are being bombed on the heads of their inhabitants and the martyrs (their bodies are scattered) on the roads and under the rubble, taking into account the limited capacities of ambulances and civil protection teams and the fact that the occupying army is directly targeting them.” “.
According to the Palestinian citizen, no one can move because the “Quad Capter” is besieging the northern governorate and shooting displaced people in their place. He says: “We don’t know if we will live or not. Every night is longer. “
The Israeli occupation threatens these citizens, who are more than 200,000 people in the areas and neighborhoods of the northern governorate of the Gaza Strip, to evacuate their homes, committing massacres against civilians to force them to move towards the south and move them.
On the evening of October 5, Muhammad Hani and his child were looking for warm clothes at the Jabalia camp market, when suddenly the occupation artillery shells fell on them, their sounds shook hearts and sowed fear. fear on people’s faces as they ran. safe to avoid being hit by its shrapnel. Enduring death and loss, as he described it.
Incursion and massacres
Hani added: “I carried my son and ran in the opposite direction of the fleeing people. I wanted to drag my family, while they were waiting for me, from a street to an alley, panting in fear and hoping that I would escape with my children I joined them and carried our belongings on our shoulders, looking for a safe escape, but to where?
He explains that this is the third time that the occupying army has entered the northern governorate and committed the most horrible massacres. He said: “We have been repeatedly moved from the rubble, under shells and planes, and death dances everywhere. Dozens of dead and injured in the streets. We do not have the strength to carry and care for them.
For his part, Moataz Ayoub, civil protection ambulance driver for the Northern governorate, says that the Jabalia camp has been waging a fierce land battle for 5 days and that ambulance drivers and civil defense teams have been subjected to rocket fire. and artillery or marches which surround and cut the roads.
The governorate’s residents were also besieged and roads were completely cut off to prevent anyone from leaving, and if anyone wanted to migrate to Gaza City, they were shot with a “quad captor”, according to Ayoub.
He explains that the road from the Abu Sharkh roundabout – which is the only exit from the west side for residents of the north – is besieged and closed by the occupation with earth barriers, targeting anyone who approaches and attempts to go out, and directs the citizens towards the east. towards Salah al-Din Street, where he set up several checkpoints and checkpoints.
Random targeting
The paramedic confirms that the situation is catastrophic and getting worse by the moment, as the Indonesian hospital has been forcibly closed and completely out of service. This contrasts with threats that demanded the Kamal Adwan Hospital administration to completely evacuate within 24 hours. the administration refused and continues to provide services to the wounded and sick.
According to Ayoub, the number of infections exceeds the capacity of medical teams to absorb and treat them, stressing that ambulance and civil protection teams are working “out of nowhere”, given the lack of capacity and the fuel shortage, and if the siege lasts longer, it will lead to the closure of the entire health system in the Northern governorate.
Where is the escape?
He confirms that targeting is “random everywhere, to the point that people have become obsessed with where they are going to flee, from Tal al-Zaatar to Jabalia camp and vice versa, and they do not know what fate awaits them, especially since all areas of the northern governorate are red and everyone there risks death.
Ayoub adds that the occupation claims there is a safe route across Salah al-Din Street for anyone who wants to go south, and “this is false. There are barriers and checkpoints, and they are shooting from the Dawla neighborhood, in the Zaytoun neighborhood. , which is still experiencing a limited incursion, with vehicles advancing and moving through various areas on its outskirts for 47 days.