Gaza City, January 4 (RHC)-- Gaza Civil Defense has shared accounts of the dire situation in besieged northern Gaza, where the Israeli campaign of death and destruction has reduced the population from 200,000 to 10,000.
A spokesman on Friday accused the Israeli occupying forces of executing a military blueprint aimed at crushing northern Gaza's infrastructure and population. He said Israel's stranglehold on Gaza’s health and civil defense systems had caused the humanitarian situation to deteriorate rapidly.
Israel has issued multiple evacuation orders in recent months and forcibly displaced hundreds of thousands of Palestinians from northern Gaza. Latest figures show a six-percent reduction in the Gaza Strip's population after 15 months of Israel's genocidal campaign.
Much of the area around the northern towns of Beit Hanoun, Jabalia and Beit Lahiya has already been cleared of people and razed in recent weeks.
Palestinian and United Nations officials said no place is safe in Gaza and that evacuations worsen the humanitarian conditions of the population.
Medical charity Doctors Without Borders or Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), recently said Israel's U.S.-backed assault has reduced Gaza to "a death trap." "This does not happen in a vacuum. The hypocrisy and complicity of Israel's allies is allowing the social fabric of Gaza to be destroyed with impunity." Paula Gil, president of the Spanish chapter of medical charity said.
Israeli forces target Indonesian Hospital
Elsewhere in his remarks, the Gaza Civil Defense spokesman described the conditions at the Indonesian Hospital as desperate, with dozens of people enduring severe hardship amidst constant threats from Israeli forces.
Israeli forces earlier ordered the immediate forced expulsion of everyone inside the Indonesian Hospital in northern Gaza. The hospital, housing mostly women and children, remains under fire, with heavy shelling reported in its vicinity.
Many of those inside are critically wounded and unable to move, leaving them trapped as Israeli violence intensifies.
