Government Media Office in Gaza: Israel is emptying Beit Hanoun and eastern Jabalia of residents

Azza – The head of the government media office in the Gaza Strip, Salama Marouf, confirmed that the Israeli occupation army is seeking to empty the town of Beit Hanoun and the eastern region of the town of Jabalia, north of the Gaza Strip, of their residents, through a military operation carried out in the two regions.

In a statement today, Tuesday, Marouf said, “In a new crime against our people, the occupation seeks to empty Beit Hanoun and the eastern region of Jabalia, north of Gaza, where the occupation army carried out a military operation last night, and its bulldozers and tanks advanced towards the shelter centers in Beit Hanoun, and a school was besieged.” Mahdia Shawa, where there are hundreds of displaced people.”

He added, “The occupation army established a field investigation center behind the school, and asked everyone to leave at gunpoint. The women were forced to remove the hijab, and the men were stripped of their outer clothing.”

He pointed out that the Israeli army forced all the families in Beit Hanoun to leave, and a number of young men were arrested, considering this “a new crime that was committed under the cover of violent artillery shelling, bombardment by warplanes, and heavy gunfire, and military vehicles are still present to this moment near the area.” Abu Safiya, east of the towns of Jabalia and Beit Hanoun.”

He continued, “The occupation army was not satisfied with the hundreds of massacres it committed in these areas, completely destroying the homes of citizens there, and forcing their people to flee from them for many months. Today, it is repeating the scenario of forcibly displacing its residents by force of arms, after they returned during the past weeks and worked to restore life in The rest of it.”

Marouf called on the international community to “put an end to this new crime of persecuting the occupation of our people and displacing them from their places of residence,” pointing out that the Palestinians are “on their land and insist on remaining there under inhumane conditions after the demolition of homes and the lack of infrastructure and services.”

At dawn on Tuesday, the Israeli occupation army suddenly entered the northern Gaza Strip into the areas east of Jabalia, north of the town of Beit Lahia, and east of the town of Beit Hanoun, amid heavy gunfire and artillery shelling. It also bombed a mosque and homes, besieged schools housing displaced people, arrested dozens of men and children, and forced women and girls to flee.

The Israeli army has continued its devastating war on the Gaza Strip since the seventh of last October, which left tens of thousands of martyrs and wounded, most of them children and women, and massive destruction and famine that claimed the lives of children and the elderly, according to Palestinian and UN data.

Israel continues the war despite the issuance of an immediate ceasefire resolution by the UN Security Council, and despite its appearance before the International Court of Justice on charges of committing genocide against the Palestinians.