For 75 days, doctors in this north Gaza hospital have withstood the Israeli army’s attempts to forcibly evacuate them and their patients. In the face of death, the doctors are still refusing to leave, even as the army steps up its attacks.
Former Israeli minister Moshe Ya’alon said in a TV interview that Israel was committing ethnic cleansing in Gaza. Meanwhile, Israel’s siege on the north continues, further crippling the remaining hospitals and healthcare systems.
In one month of continuous killing, it is thought that the Israeli army has ethnically cleansed some 100,000 people out of north Gaza. Those who remain are being starved out and exterminated.
The Israeli army has admitted for the first time that it intends to prevent Palestinian residents of northern Gaza to return to their homes.
Civilians fleeing north Gaza are arriving in Gaza City and staying in newly established refugee camps. The camps are already overflowing and there aren’t any more tents.
Survivors of the ongoing Israeli extermination campaign in north Gaza describe how the Israeli army is separating mothers from children before forcing them south, executing civilians in ditches, and directly targeting hospitals and medical staff.
Following the Israeli army’s claim to have displaced 20,000 Palestinians from Jabalia, local sources tell Mondoweiss that most of the displaced have relocated to other places in northern Gaza.
Israel is emptying northern Gaza of its inhabitants during its ongoing ethnic cleansing campaign. One of its key strategies is to target hospitals in the area, and Kamal Adwan Hospital in Beit Lahia has become a primary target.
One of the great reliefs of Gaza’s cold winters is knowing that strawberry season is coming in December.