Israeli Soldiers Launches Attack On Central Gaza

According to the Israeli military, it has begun “operational activity” in two central Gazan neighborhoods as part of a potential expansion of its ground onslaught against Hamas.

The eastern regions of Deir al-Balah and Bureij, a built-up Palestinian refugee camp going back to the 1948 war surrounding Israel’s founding, are where the IDF claimed its personnel are working “both above and below ground.”

It stated that after carrying out airstrikes on insurgent facilities, forces in both regions started a “targeted daylight operation.” Palestinians are suffering from widespread hunger as a result of the eight-month offensive, which has essentially stopped the supply of food, medicine, and other supplies.

According to Qatar, which has been instrumental in negotiations alongside Egypt and the US, international mediators are awaiting Israel and Hamas’ response to a fresh ceasefire and hostage release plan.

US President; Joe Biden declared that the three-phase plan was Israeli when he unveiled the proposal last week. Since then, though, Israeli officials have seemed to back away from the idea and pledged to continue attacking Hamas until the organization is annihilated.

The health ministry, which does not differentiate between combatants and civilians, reports that more than 36,000 Palestinians have died as a result of Israel’s battle against Hamas in Gaza.

Israel declared war on Gaza after Hamas broke into southern Israel on October 7, killing around 1,200 people, largely civilians, and kidnapping about 250 more. It is estimated that about 80 of the 43 hostages who were killed on October 7 are still alive in Gaza. Before this, a separate team of specialists cautioned that while there may be a famine in northern Gaza, gathering evidence of it has been hampered by the conflict between Israel and Hamas and restrictions on humanitarian access.

Gaza could experience starvation “is possible, if not likely,” according to the Starvation Early Warning Systems Network (Fews Net) organization.

After nearly seven months of conflict, the president of the World Food Programme declared last month that northern Gaza had entered “full-blown famine,” raising fears about lethal hunger that had been on the rise in recent months.

Subsequently, experts at the UN agency stated that Cindy McCain was voicing her viewpoint. Three things indicate that a region is experiencing famine: Twenty percent of households are severely food insecure, meaning they are practically starving; thirty percent or more of children are acutely malnourished or wasting, meaning they are too small for their height; and two adults or four children out of every 10,000 die from hunger-related complications every day.

This is in line with the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification, a coalition of nations, UN agencies, and other organizations that issued a warning about impending starvation in northern Gaza in March.

The Fews Net report from Tuesday is the first technical analysis by an international organization indicating that there may be a famine in northern Gaza. Fews Net, a globally renowned authority on famine that offers timely, evidence-based early warning information for food shortages, is funded by the US Agency for International Development.

Additionally, it provides guidance for humanitarian response decisions in some of the most food-insecure nations on the planet. However, the information has to be present for a formal declaration of famine. A statement like that might also be presented as proof before the International Criminal Court.