As Israel Pounds Gaza City, an Overwhelming Exodus

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Source: NYT

Written by Liam StackVisuals by Saher Alghorra
Liam Stack reported from Tel Aviv and Saher Alghorra from Al-Mawasi and Nuseirat in the Gaza Strip.

"The hundreds of thousands of Palestinians fleeing Israel’s expanded ground offensive are further straining services, aid groups say. Hospitals are overflowing, water is low and diseases are spreading. As Israel’s full-scale assault in Gaza City began last month, Khitam Ayyad fled from her home there barefoot and without her possessions, heading to an area in southern Gaza that the Israeli military had designated as a “humanitarian zone.”

The military said that tents, food and medical care would be provided to those fleeing the fighting in the north...

... Before the operation, the military said that the humanitarian infrastructure in southern Gaza was prepared for “the expected population volume moving from northern Gaza.”

... On Wednesday, the Red Cross said it would suspend operations and move its staff out of the city, days after Doctors Without Borders, a medical charity, announced a similar move saying that Israeli forces had “encircled” their facilities. At the weekend, the United Nations said that fighting had rendered four hospitals in the north unusable over the past month..."



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[msongs]

1. shades of the 1940s nt

[Bread and Circuses]

2. Another human tragedy happening before our eyes . Where is the UN?

[muriel_volestrangler]

6. The US has a veto over UN action

and has used it repeatedly to benefit Netanyahu.

[popsdenver]

3. Time for

Time for another "Berlin Airlift"...............Oh wait, Putin, Trump and Netanyahu wouldn't allow it

[iemanja]

4. Israel has taken an Irish senator and several

other Irish citizens aboard the flotilla carrying food aid to Gaza.

https://www.the-independent.com/news/uk/home-news/spectre-irish-sinn-fein-gaza-israel-b2837675.html

[BlueWaveNeverEnd]

5. Kick

[AloeVera]

7. COGAT is run by liars and gaslighters.

The IDF who promised residents they would have a "humanitarian city" in the south is not much better. They both know better, but deceive with practice, knowing full well the amount of further suffering awaiting Palestinians. It's cruelty of the highest order as well as breach of all humanitarian laws.

Just look at these weasel words,carefully constructed as always, by masters of gaslighting:

The Israeli military agency that coordinates aid to Gaza, known as COGAT, reiterated that the humanitarian facilities in the south were prepared for the new arrivals. “Accordingly, the transfer of food, medical equipment and shelter supplies has been increased,” COGAT said in a statement on Sept. 25. “Steps have been taken in the fields of water and medical response in the southern Gaza Strip.”

The reality of course is different:

“We are exposed to the sun and the heat,” she said. There was no space for her to build a shelter, she added, and “no proper food or water.”
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Olga Cherevko, a spokeswoman for the United Nations’ humanitarian office who is working in a designated humanitarian zone, said there were “hundreds of people just sitting on the side of the road looking shellshocked, without anything.”
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But two weeks into the offensive, there appeared to be little sign of that infrastructure, a visit by a New York Times photographer to the humanitarian zone showed and Palestinians and aid groups said in interviews. They said the facilities there were far from sufficient.

“The hospitals are completely overflowing,” Ms. Cherevko said. “The water production is at some of the lowest levels that we’ve ever seen. There’s all kinds of diseases.”

Shame on all ordering and carrying out this horror on civilians.

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15. Thanks for the additional excerpts, there is nowhere for people to go, they are sitting ducks :( :( nt

[Bayard]

8. Does anyone really still think they are just targeting Hamas?

That this is only in retaliation for what happened last October? I hate to say it, but I'm starting to think that bombing was orchestrated by Netanyahoo, so he had a pretext for doing exactly what he's done.

Bring on the whacking.

[maxsolomon]

9. 10/7 was coordinated by Netanyahu?

Please. Stop starting to think that.

[hedda_foil]

10. Remember LIHOP?

[maxsolomon]

11. Yes I remember LIHOP

the comment was suggesting MIHOP.

[Bayard]

12. Why?

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14. Numerous reports of failure to read/ignore the intelligence, Gaza is being leveled and one ...

should wonder to what end.

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13. They were Israel's 'eyes on the border' - but their Hamas warnings went unheard

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-67958260

In the months leading up to the 7 October attacks by Hamas, they did begin to see things: practice raids, mock hostage-taking, and farmers behaving strangely on the other side of the fence.

Noa, not her real name, says they would pass information about what they were seeing to intelligence and higher-ranking officers, but were powerless to do more. "We were just the eyes," she says.

It was clear to some of these women that Hamas was planning something big - that there was, in Noa's words, a "balloon that was going to burst".
The BBC has now spoken to these young women about the escalation in suspicious activity they observed, the reports they filed, and what they saw as a lack of response from senior Israel Defense Forces (IDF) officers.

... "We would see them practising every day what the raid would look like," Noa, who is still serving in the military, tells the BBC. "They even had a model tank that they were practising how to take over...