AhlulBayt News Agency (ABNA): At least 10 Palestinians queuing for food have been killed and dozens more injured in an Israeli attack on the Jabalia refugee camp as the regime ramps up its brutality in northern Gaza.
Palestinian medics said on Monday that over 40 were also injured by Israeli tank shells that hit a food distribution center in northern Gaza's Jabalia.
Some media reports said an Israeli drone had opened fire where dozens of residents had gathered to receive food. Most of the victims are said to be women and children.
Jabalia has been the focus of an Israeli offensive for around 10 days. The occupation forces completed the encirclement of the historic refugee camp and sent tanks into the nearby Beit Lahiya and Beit Hanoun towns.
So far, very few Palestinians have heeded the latest Israeli evacuation order. They fear there’s nowhere safe to go and that they will never be allowed back. Israel has prevented those who fled earlier in the war from returning.
"We have been hit from the air and the ground, non-stop for a week, they want us to leave, they want to punish us for refusing to leave our homes," said Marwa, 26, who left with her family to a school in Gaza City.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is reportedly examining a plan to seal off humanitarian aid to northern Gaza in an attempt to starve out hundreds of thousands of Palestinians unwilling or unable to leave their homes.
No trucks of food, water, or medicine have entered the north since Sept. 30, according to the UN.
UN Secretary General António Guterres condemned the "large number of civilian casualties in the intensifying Israeli campaign in northern Gaza," his spokesperson Stephane Dujarric said on Monday.
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