"AMMAN, Jordan As the Israeli military moves to displace the entire population of Gaza City, aid organizations are warning that the military offensive and new Israeli restrictions on aid groups due to be implemented next week will create an even bigger catastrophe in a territory already wracked with famine. As part of its planned takeover of Gaza City, Israel has told residents to move south or risk being killed."
"After almost two years of war, aid providers say the health care system has collapsed, even as the number of injured, ill and starving Palestinians continues to rise sharply. The most prominent U.N.-backed global panel on hunger last month declared that conditions in Gaza City and the north had reached the level of famine and that it would spread to central and south Gaza by the end of this month if nothing is done."
""Not only is there not enough aid entering but there's more and more people who are wounded and sick and suffering from malnutrition," says Amande Bazerolle, Gaza emergency director for Doctors Without Borders. "Not only that but the number of patients is exponential at the moment." Israel this week said it was halting all aid going to Gaza City as it escalates attacks there in what it says is its fight against the militant group Hamas. Bazerolle says adding to the difficulties posed by Israeli restrictions on bringing in medical supplies, Israel's attack in July on a warehouse of the U.N.'s World Health Organization in Gaza further depleted supplies."
Israeli military orders are directing the entire population of Gaza City to move south amid a planned takeover, with threats of lethal force for noncompliance. Aid organizations warn there is no safety, food, water or shelter in areas Palestinians are told to go, and the International Committee of the Red Cross calls the evacuation warnings "incomprehensible." After nearly two years of war, the health care system has collapsed while injured, ill, and starving people surge. A U.N.-backed panel declared Gaza City and northern areas at famine level, predicting spread to central and southern Gaza without urgent action. Israeli restrictions and attacks have sharply limited food and medical supplies.
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