100,000 Palestinians besieged in north Gaza without food, medicine

Palestinian children, who struggle with hunger due to the embargo imposed by Israel on the Gaza Strip, hold empty pots to receive meals distributed by charities as Israel’s attacks continue in Deir al-Balah, Gaza on November 3, 2024. [Ashraf Amra – Anadolu Agency]

More than 100,000 Palestinians are besieged in the north of the Gaza Strip without food and medicine, Quds Press reported Civil Defence spokesperson in the Gaza Strip Mahmoud Basal saying on Saturday. At least 60 per cent of them are women and children, he added.

Basal told reporters that there is no medical treatment in the north of the Strip, “in a world that talks about democracy while leaving Gaza to be slaughtered.”

On Sunday, the Palestinian Ministry of Health in Gaza appealed to international and UN bodies and organisations to “send medical and surgical delegations and facilitate their access to hospitals in the north of Gaza, especially Kamal Adwan Hospital.”

It also called for “providing ambulances to transport the wounded and sick to hospitals.”

Israel has intensified its siege on northern Gaza, rounding up and stripping men and boys and forcing women and young children to walk to the south of the enclave under a heavy military presence.

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