Israeli attacks hit northern Gaza, and the United Nations condemns the lack of aid access Gaza News

Children are among the victims of Israeli raids on the besieged areas in the northern and central Gaza Strip, in light of continuing restrictions imposed on humanitarian aid.

Israel has implemented a series of Attacks on northern and central Gaza, killing at least 25 people, including children, as a leading human rights group accused By committing “acts of genocide” by depriving Palestinians of clean water.

Separate Israeli attacks on Jabalia in the northern Gaza Strip, where Palestinians have remained under a tight siege for more than two months, killed at least 16 people, including 10 members of one family, on Thursday.

In Gaza City, an Israeli attack on a house in the Al-Daraj neighborhood led to the killing of at least four Palestinians, and another person was killed in a raid on a group of civilians in the Al-Zaytoun neighborhood.

In central Gaza, an air strike on the Maghazi refugee camp killed at least four people.

There were fears that the total death toll could rise as several people were reported injured in Israeli attacks.

The Israeli army also issued threats to forcefully evict residents of Bureij refugee camp. “The question is where people can go, as everywhere is crowded in the central areas of the Strip,” said Tariq Abu Azoum, an Al Jazeera correspondent from nearby Deir al-Balah.

At least 45,000 Palestinians have been killed and 107,000 injured during more than 14 months of attacks across the Gaza Strip, a densely populated area at risk of famine and experiencing emergency levels of hunger.

Israel began its fierce military campaign after at least 1,139 people were killed during an attack led by the Palestinian Hamas movement in Israel on October 7, 2023, and more than 200 others were captured.

Most of Gaza’s 2.3 million people have been displaced, many multiple times, while intense Israeli bombing has destroyed much of the Strip.

Referring to a Human Rights Watch report on Thursday that accused Israel of using water as a weapon of war in Gaza, Abu Azoum said that searching for water in the besieged and bombarded area is a “daily struggle for survival.”

In its 179-page report, Human Rights Watch detailed how Israeli authorities cut off and later restricted piped water to Gaza, rendered most of the water and sanitation infrastructure useless by cutting off electricity and restricting fuel, and destroying and damaging water and sanitation infrastructure. Sanitation and water remediation intentionally. materials; It prevented entry to vital water supplies.

The Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs denied these accusations, calling them “lies” and claiming that the organization was promoting “anti-Israel propaganda.”

A separate MSF report published on Thursday revealed “clear signs of ethnic cleansing” in Gaza, especially in the northern part of the Strip.

The organization said: “Our direct observations of the medical and humanitarian catastrophe in Gaza are consistent with the descriptions provided by a growing number of legal experts and organizations who have concluded that genocide is occurring in Gaza.”

The International Court of Justice has repeatedly stated It ordered Israel to take all necessary measures Ensure that essential water and food supplies reach the Palestinian population of Gaza without delay.

Despite this, the United Nations and humanitarian organizations continue to accuse Israel of restricting aid supplies to Gaza by effectively blocking access to the Strip.

UN spokesman Stephane Dujarric said on Thursday that Israeli authorities had “once again” prevented access to Beit Hanoun, Beit Lahia and eastern Jabalia, which are under a tight siege.

“We have highlighted how the vast majority of our efforts to reach the northern Gaza governorates have been obstructed since the start of the Israeli blockade 10 weeks ago. Most requests are rejected outright,” Dujarric said.

The United Nations said that it planned to carry out 96 humanitarian operations in northern Gaza, but the Israeli authorities facilitated only 16 of them.