Aid organizations are accusing Israel of violating international law in northern Gaza, where, according to Oxfam, "around 50,000-75,000 people are trapped without access to food, water, or electricity".
"Our staff in Gaza have desperately tried for nearly two months to reach starving civilians, but have been blocked by the Israeli military", explains Oxfam chief Amitabh Behar in a press release.
At the same time, Unicef is sounding the alarm that sick people are continuing to die because they cannot be evacuated. "Islam was only eleven years old when he died of leukemia earlier this month", writes the UN agency on X. "His six applications for medical evacuation were rejected. Children are being denied medical care, a fundamental human right".
After the ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah militia came into effect in Lebanon on Wednesday, Israel's military announced that the war effort in northern Gaza would be intensified. Among other things, raids were carried out "against a former school suspected of harboring terrorists", according to the country's media, citing the IDF.
And in contrast to the aid organizations' picture, the IDF is also claiming that it has "facilitated safe passage south for thousands of civilians". Israel has divided Gaza into military zones and previously urged civilians to leave the northern areas, as that is where the fighting is most intense.
