[News] Euro-Med Monitor calls on the UN to declare northern Gaza a disaster zone

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 Euro-Med Monitor calls on the UN to declare northern Gaza a disaster zone

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GAZA, (PIC)

The Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor has called on the United
Nations to declare northern Gaza a disaster zone, which would necessitate
immediate interventions and compel Israeli authorities to halt the genocide
occurring there, along with imposing a comprehensive arms embargo on Israel.

In a statement released on Saturday, the Monitor highlighted that the
Israeli army is committing systematic and widespread acts of collective and
individual killings, deliberate starvation, mass forced displacement, and
the complete destruction of what remains of the means of living. It
emphasized that the international community’s deafness and inability to
stop the ongoing atrocities makes it complicit in the most brutal genocide.

The Euro-Med said that its field team is documenting horrific crimes
against civilians in the Jabalia camp and throughout northern Gaza,
especially as the Israeli aggression has intensified, peaking on the
evening of Friday, October 18. The Israeli army bombed several homes
belonging to the “Hawajri,” “Nassar,” and “Abu al-Eish” families in the Tel
al-Zaatar area of Jabalia camp, resulting in the martyrdom of 33
Palestinians and injuring over 70 others.

The human rights Monitor added that many other Palestinians remain
unaccounted for, raising the death toll since the beginning of the recent
assault on northern Gaza to 500 martyrs, with dozens still in the streets
and under the rubble, in addition to thousands of injuries there.

The Euro-Med noted that Israeli occupation forces bombed a residential
block crowded with dozens of civilians with numerous rockets, destroying it
above their heads without any justification, other than the intent to kill
the remaining residents and forcibly displace survivors from the camp.

It indicated that since the early hours of Saturday, Israeli occupation
forces have besieged the Indonesian hospital in Beit Lahiya, northern Gaza,
targeting anyone moving in its vicinity, firing two artillery shells at it,
and cutting off electricity. They also destroyed one of the hospital’s
walls with bulldozers.

The rights group conveyed a statement from Dr. Munir al-Bursh, the
director-general of the Ministry of Health, showing that occupation forces
shelled the upper floors of the Indonesian hospital, where more than 40
patients and injured individuals, many in critical condition, along with
medical staff, are located. He added that the army also targeted a group of
displaced people in front of the hospital gate, while electricity was
completely cut off, causing significant panic among patients and medical
staff due to the ongoing and intense gunfire from the army near the
hospital.

The Euro-Med Monitor reported receiving information about the Israeli army
encircling four shelter centers around the Indonesian hospital. It noted
that Israeli warplanes bombed the vicinity of Kamal Adwan Hospital in Beit
Lahiya, coinciding with the funeral ceremonies for the victims of the Tel
al-Zaatar attack, resulting in the martyrdom of four citizens, including
Bilal Abdul Aal, a doctor at Kamal Adwan Hospital, after Israeli aircraft
bombed his home in the al-Alami neighborhood of Jabalia camp.

The Euro-Med warned that the Israeli occupation army is systematically
working to incapacitate the remaining healthcare system there, which is
already functioning partially, and targeting its personnel. In recent days,
the army has aimed at destroying the remaining water wells and bombed
communication and internet facilities, leading to their disruption in the
area.

The Monitor confirmed that over 400,000 Palestinians are facing the risk of
death from bombardment or starvation in northern Gaza Valley, as Israeli
forces have prevented any aid from entering since the beginning of the
month, while continuing to invade northern Gaza since October 5.

The Euro-Med highlighted that its field team has documented hundreds of
Israeli strikes and bombardments that have destroyed homes, shelters, and
streets in northern Gaza, which have been ongoing without interruption for
the past 15 days. Many victims and injured individuals remain in the
streets or homes due to the difficulty in transporting them to hospitals,
as Israeli forces impose a live-fire ban on the movement of ambulances and
civil defense teams in most areas of Jabalia and its camp.

The rights group called on the United Nations to treat the situation in
northern Gaza as a disaster zone, necessitating urgent interventions to
compel the occupying authorities to stop their attacks against civilians,
deliver life-saving emergency aid urgently, and halt the violent genocide
being carried out against them.

It also urged international organizations and countries, both individually
and collectively, to intervene immediately to save hundreds of thousands of
residents in northern Gaza, stop the genocide being perpetrated by Israel
for the second consecutive year, impose a comprehensive arms embargo on it,
hold it accountable for all its crimes, and take all necessary measures to
protect Palestinian civilians there.
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