Palestinians fleeing Jabalia say bodies are left lying on streets

Palestinians who fled from nan Israeli crushed violative connected nan Jabalia exile campy successful bluish Gaza person fixed harrowing accounts of nan business there.

One man told nan BBC that he saw streets strewn pinch bodies aft being ordered to time off a shelter by Israeli forces, while a female said immoderate group near successful specified panic that they near their children behind.

The UN agency for Palestinian refugees called for a impermanent truce to alteration safe transition for families still wishing to flee, while 2 section hospitals warned that they were moving retired of supplies.

The Israeli subject said its troops were continuing operations against Hamas fighters while enabling nan unafraid removal of civilians.

More than 400 group are reported to person been killed and tens of thousands person been displaced since nan subject said it was launching a 3rd violative successful nan Jabalia area connected 6 October, saying it was rooting retired Hamas fighters who had regrouped there.

It came arsenic US Secretary of State Antony Blinken flew to Israel to effort to revive nan stalled negotiated process for a Gaza ceasefire and hostage merchandise woody successful nan aftermath of past week's sidesplitting by Israeli troops of Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar.

After gathering Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, he told reporters that he wanted "to make judge that this is simply a infinitesimal of opportunity to move forward".

Mr Blinken besides emphasized nan request for Israel to return further steps to summation and prolong nan travel of humanitarian assistance into Gaza.

BBC Arabic’s Gaza Today programme interviewed respective displaced group who had precocious fled Jabalia campy and sought refuge successful nan adjacent Rimal neighbourhood of Gaza City.

A man called Saleh said he had “endured a siege for 16 days” while sheltering pinch his family astatine Abu Hussein Primary School for Boys.

Medics and rescue workers said more than 20 group were killed successful an Israeli aerial onslaught location past week. The Israeli subject named connected Tuesday 18 Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad fighters who it said were among nan dead.

“The shelling grew person and intensified each day, pinch Israeli forces advancing towards us. Today, we heard bombings very near... We feared for our lives,” Saleh said.

“We received messages via [Israeli] quadcopters urging america to evacuate, truthful we began to move nether nan watch of Israeli soldiers, who demanded we spell towards either nan southbound aliases westbound of Gaza... I had my grandma pinch me, she was incapable to move, for illustration galore others.”

Another man, Mohammed al-Danani, said he was astatine nan aforesaid schoolhouse and that he had “witnessed nan bodies of martyrs connected nan streets” aft complying pinch nan removal order.

Engy Abdel Aal said she had been successful nan Abu Rashid Pond area erstwhile quadcopters broadcast orders directing group to move towards nan municipality of Beit Lahia, conscionable northbound of nan camp.

“The business was incredibly difficult, no-one knew wherever to go. It’s tragic and catastrophic successful each sense,” she said. “Some group had to fly without their children, leaving them down successful nan schoolhouse while they escaped pinch others.”

The Israeli subject announced connected Tuesday that it troops were “continuing combat successful nan Jabalia area, while enabling nan unafraid removal of civilians from nan combat zone”.

“As a result, thousands of civilians person been evacuated. Dozens of terrorists were arrested from among nan civilians,” it said successful a station connected X that included a video showing crowds stepping done damaged streets.

The subject besides said that troops “eliminated 10 terrorists that posed a threat and operated adjacent to them” successful a azygous strike, without giving immoderate details.

The Palestinian Red Crescent meantime posted a video that it said showed an ambulance transporting nan bodies of 5 people, including children, killed by shelling successful Jabalia municipality connected Monday.

Another schematic video filmed connected nan aforesaid day showed paramedic Nevin al-Dawasah trying to thief dormant and wounded men, women and children astatine a tented campy adjacent to Jabalia Preparatory School for Boys.

After fleeing nan area connected Tuesday, Ms Dawasah told AFP news agency that group had been complying pinch an removal bid erstwhile “suddenly location was shelling”.

“We had martyrs and wounded and location was nary safe transition for nan ambulances to come,” she said.

The Israeli subject has not yet commented connected nan reports.

The caput of nan UN agency for Palestinian refugees (Unrwa), Philippe Lazzarini, said its unit successful bluish Gaza were reporting that they could not find food, h2o aliases aesculapian care.

“The smell of decease is everyplace arsenic bodies are near lying connected nan roads aliases nether nan rubble," he wrote connected X. “People are conscionable waiting to die. They consciousness deserted, hopeless and alone."

Mr Lazzarini called for “an contiguous truce, moreover if for fewer hours, to alteration safe humanitarian transition for families who wish to time off nan area and scope safer places”.

A UN spokesperson said Israeli authorities were continuing to contradict requests from its Office for nan Co-ordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) to thief rescue civilians trapped nether nan rubble and to present desperately needed supplies to hospitals.

The head of nan Indonesian hospital, 1 of nan past functioning hospitals adjacent Jabalia, told BBC Arabic’s Gaza Today programme that Israeli troops were stationed extracurricular its gates and that location was changeless gunfire successful nan vicinity.

“This has created an ambiance of fearfulness and disorder among patients and aesculapian staff,” Dr Marwan al-Sultan said. “We are besides facing a captious shortage of fuel, aesculapian supplies, personnel, food, and water.”

“Additionally, ongoing powerfulness outages unit nan infirmary to trust connected replacement power sources that past only 8 to 10 hours. During nan remaining time, nan aesculapian unit cannot run nan electrical generators, which endangers patients who require oxygen.”

Dr Sultan besides denied reports that location had been a occurrence astatine nan infirmary connected Monday, saying location had been a blaze wrong an adjacent school, adjacent respective generators.

The Israeli subject has said it is ensuring hospitals stay operational during nan offensive.

It has besides said that much than 230 lorries carrying food, water, aesculapian supplies and shelters person been transferred to bluish Gaza via nan Erez West crossing since past week, pursuing a two-week play erstwhile nan UN said location were nary deliveries.

Israel launched a run to destruct Hamas successful consequence to nan group's unprecedented onslaught connected confederate Israel connected 7 October 2023, successful which astir 1,200 group were killed and 251 others were taken hostage.

More than 42,710 group person been killed successful Gaza since then, according to nan territory's Hamas-run wellness ministry.