Eng. Alaa Al-Attar, Mayor of Beit Lahia, north of the Gaza Strip, confirmed that the recent and ongoing Israeli aggression on northern Gaza Strip has turned the area into a disaster area unfit for habitation, calling on the international community, all international and UN organizations, and all free people of the world to intervene urgently to save what remains of human life in Gaza, which is guaranteed by all international laws, especially since there is no safe place left in it.
Al-Attar noted, in a press conference on behalf of service institutions in northern Gaza, that the aggression has resulted in the martyrdom of more than 400 Palestinians to date, noting that the occupation has destroyed and targeted most of the humanitarian, service, civil, and health facilities in the northern Gaza Strip.
He added that the occupation worked to separate Beit Lahia, Beit Hanoun and Jabalia camp from Jabalia al-Nazla town and Gaza city in an attempt to empty the northern Gaza Strip of its residents, using very lar
ge firepower that destroyed entire residential blocks and the infrastructure in the area, stressing that for more than two weeks, the residents of Jabalia camp and the northern cities have been suffering from the occupation’s prevention of the entry of food, water and medicine, which has exposed tens of thousands of families to thirst, starvation and death, forcing them to flee to the southern Gaza Strip.
The mayor of Beit Lahia explained that the northern Gaza Strip suffers greatly from a water shortage due to the lack of diesel fuel needed to operate the remaining water wells and desalination plants, despite the appeals of the relevant institutions to bring in diesel fuel, stressing the existence of a major health and environmental disaster in the northern Gaza Strip in light of the accumulation of thousands of tons of waste in the roads and sewage water that fills the streets and alleys, causing diseases and epidemics that are killing the residents because the occupation army does not allow the entry of d
iesel fuel needed to operate the sewage pumps.
Engineer Alaa Al-Attar also pointed out that the remaining hospitals in the North Gaza Governorate suffer from a severe shortage of medicines and medical supplies, stressing that the health cadres have become exhausted and cannot continue working in light of the major targeting and the large number of injuries arriving at the hospitals, and they need urgent operations to save their lives, and safe corridors to transfer them for treatment outside the Strip.
He highlighted the deliberate destruction of agricultural crops and their supplies and bakeries by the occupation army, pointing out the lack of the necessary mechanisms to maintain the water and sewage networks, ambulance and firefighting, remove rubble, open roads for ambulances and firefighters, and remove the bodies of the martyrs who are still under the rubble.
Source: Qatar News Agency