As Israel Pounds Gaza City, an Overwhelming Exodus

Source: NYT

Written by Liam StackVisuals by Saher Alghorra
Liam Stack reported from Tel Aviv and Saher Alghorra from Al-Mawasi and Nuseirat in the Gaza Strip.

"The hundreds of thousands of Palestinians fleeing Israel’s expanded ground offensive are further straining services, aid groups say. Hospitals are overflowing, water is low and diseases are spreading. As Israel’s full-scale assault in Gaza City began last month, Khitam Ayyad fled from her home there barefoot and without her possessions, heading to an area in southern Gaza that the Israeli military had designated as a “humanitarian zone.”

The military said that tents, food and medical care would be provided to those fleeing the fighting in the north...

... Before the operation, the military said that the humanitarian infrastructure in southern Gaza was prepared for “the expected population volume moving from northern Gaza.”

... On Wednesday, the Red Cross said it would suspend operations and move its staff out of the city, days after Doctors Without Borders, a medical charity, announced a similar move saying that Israeli forces had “encircled” their facilities. At the weekend, the United Nations said that fighting had rendered four hospitals in the north unusable over the past month..."



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