Gaza Strip in maps: How life has changed in two months

[CharlieH]

Almost two million people in Gaza - more than 85% of the population - are reported to have fled their homes in the two months since Israel began its military operation in response to Hamas's deadly attacks of 7 October.

The Strip has been under the control of Hamas since 2007 and Israel says it is trying to destroy the military and governing capabilities of the Islamist group, which is committed to the destruction of Israel.

The situation for ordinary people in Gaza - a densely populated enclave 41km (25 miles) long and 10km wide, bounded by the Mediterranean Sea on one side and fenced off from Israel and Egypt at its borders - is "getting worse by the hour", according to United Nations aid agencies.

 

 

Southern Gaza evacuation areas

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) are now focusing its operations on southern Gaza and have told Palestinians that even Khan Younis - the largest urban area in the south - is not safe and they should move south, or further west to a so-called "safe area" at al-Mawasi, a thin strip of mainly agricultural land along the Mediterranean coast, close to the Egyptian border.

 

Fighting in Khan Younis has pushed tens of thousands of people to flee to the southern district of Rafah, the UN said.

 

According to the UN, just over 75% of Gaza's population - some 1.7 million people - were already registered refugees before Israel warned Palestinians to leave northern Gaza.

Palestinian refugees are defined by the UN as people whose "place of residence was Palestine during the period 1 June 1946 to 15 May 1948, and who lost both home and means of livelihood as a result of the 1948 War". The children of Palestinian refugees are also able to apply for refugee status.

Most of Gaza's population displaced

 

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[freeworld]

Latest news yesterday from the ICJ.

 

Proceedings instituted by South Africa against the State of Israel on 29 December 2023

Latest Developments

Application instituting proceedings and request for the indication of provisional measures

 

https://www.icj-cij.org/case/192

[billd766]

Thank you for posting the topic and the link.

 

The UN teams and some news teams on the ground can only report and can do very little.

 

Sadly the majority of countries do little but talk, whine and cry.

 

Only one country, South Africa, has Stood up and actually done something about it.

 

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-67844551

 

Predictably, Israel has strongly rejected the allegation, calling it "baseless".

"Israel rejects with disgust the blood libel spread by South Africa", the foreign ministry said.

 

Meanwhile for every day of inaction, hundred of men, women, children die unnecessarily, and hundreds more are injured. What does the world do about the murderous Israeli regime.

 

They talk a lot and do SFA.

 

In the UN security council they say that they can do nothing because Russia has a veto.

 

Russia, another "peaceful" country.

 

The simple answer is to remove the veto from Russia. If they don't accept it, then kick them off the UNSC and give their position to an African country such as South Africa. Russia will be no great loss.

[Yellowtail]

8 hours ago, billd766 said:

Thank you for posting the topic and the link.

 

The UN teams and some news teams on the ground can only report and can do very little.

 

Sadly the majority of countries do little but talk, whine and cry.

 

Only one country, South Africa, has Stood up and actually done something about it.

 

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-67844551

 

Predictably, Israel has strongly rejected the allegation, calling it "baseless".

"Israel rejects with disgust the blood libel spread by South Africa", the foreign ministry said.

 

Meanwhile for every day of inaction, hundred of men, women, children die unnecessarily, and hundreds more are injured. What does the world do about the murderous Israeli regime.

 

They talk a lot and do SFA.

 

In the UN security council they say that they can do nothing because Russia has a veto.

 

Russia, another "peaceful" country.

 

The simple answer is to remove the veto from Russia. If they don't accept it, then kick them off the UNSC and give their position to an African country such as South Africa. Russia will be no great loss.

They should move the US to South Africa and kick the US and Israel out!