Palestine’s UN envoy says ‘genocide within genocide’ going on in north Gaza

Hamas typical successful Lebanon says Israel has prevented introduction of nutrient supplies into Jabalia campy for the past 10 days.

A elder Palestinian diplomat to the United Nations has sounded alarm implicit Israel’s ongoing siege of bluish Gaza, successful which hundreds of Palestinians person been killed implicit the past week and hundreds of thousands of civilian residents are either trapped oregon ordered to fly amid intense bombardment.

As the military siege successful the Jabalia exile campy and its vicinity entered its 10th time connected Sunday, Palestinian authorities said astatine slightest 200 radical person been killed since the Israeli operations began earlier this month.

The Palestinian quality bureau Wafa reported that astatine slightest 17 much radical were killed connected Sunday greeting successful cardinal and bluish Gaza, including 8 members of 1 household successful the Nuseirat exile campy arsenic good arsenic 5 radical successful al-Ettesalat country westbound of the Jabalia exile camp.

“What is happening successful bluish Gaza present is simply a genocide wrong the genocide,” Palestinian Ambassador Majed Bamya, the lawman imperishable perceiver to the UN, wrote connected X.

‘Continuation of genocidal acts’

Al Jazeera’s Hani Mahmoud, reporting from Deir el-Balah successful cardinal Gaza, said astir 400,000 Palestinians are trapped successful bluish Gaza, with the Israeli subject not allowing anyone to permission the country contempt issuing an evacuation order.

“What’s happening present is simply a continuation of the genocidal acts that began a twelvemonth ago,” helium said, adding that much than 70 bodies are inactive connected the streets, with civilian defence workers incapable to retrieve them due to the fact that of relentless Israeli attacks.

In Jabalia, hopeless residents are posting astir their dire concern connected societal media with 1 declaring, “We volition not leave, we dice and we don’t leave.”

Nasser, a nonmigratory of Beit Lahiya successful bluish Gaza, said: “As the satellite is focused connected Lebanon and imaginable Israeli onslaught against Iran, Israel is wiping retired Jabalia.

“The concern is blowing up roads and destroying residential districts. People can’t find thing to eat. They are trapped wrong their homes, fearing bombs could autumn onto their heads.”

A connection by the Israeli subject connected Sunday said 40 targets were deed successful Gaza successful the past 24 hours, claiming that the strikes destroyed weapons and killed dozens of Hamas fighters.

Among the reported deaths successful the strikes connected Sunday was a idiosyncratic killed aft Israeli warplanes struck a gathering eastbound of Deir el-Balah, Wafa reported. Israeli artillery shelling besides killed 3 Palestinians and injured respective others successful the Bureij exile camp, the study added.

Explosions were besides heard from the Israeli army’s demolition of dozens of homes successful Jabalia and its surroundings, peculiarly successful the al-Safatay and al-Tuwam neighbourhoods, according to Wafa.

Osama Hamdan, Hamas’s typical successful Lebanon, told Al Jazeera that Israel has “prevented the introduction of nutrient supplies to the northbound for 10 days”, describing what is happening successful Jabalia arsenic “a transgression against humanity”.

Intentionally starving civilians by “depriving them of objects indispensable to their survival, including willfully impeding alleviation supplies” is simply a warfare crime, according to the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court.

Meanwhile, six Palestinians, astir of them children, were injured erstwhile the Israeli subject bombed a location successful the Tuffah neighbourhood of Gaza City, Wafa said.

Francesca Albanese, the UN peculiar rapporteur for the occupied Palestinian territory, accused Israel of committing “another massacre”, adding that its troops “have accepted to beryllium consenting executioners of a genocidal plan”.

“It blows my caput to deliberation that WE KNOW what Israel is doing and altogether we cannot halt it. Looking astatine wherever we were 100 years ago, nary overmuch advancement has been achieved,” she said successful a station connected X.

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Al Jazeera and quality agencies