Palestinians with their belongings leave Gaza City as they flee from their homes following the Israeli army’s warning on October 13, 2023. Palestinians carried belongings through the rubble-strewn streets of Gaza City on October 13 in search of refuge as Israel’s army warned residents to flee immediately before an expected ground offensive. (Photo by Mahmud Hams / AFP)
Palestinian women and children flee their homes in Gaza City on October 11, 2023. (Photo: AFP / Mohammed Abed)
Amir Rafat Mahmoud Mlaitat, 13, is the eighth Palestinian child shot and killed by Israeli forces and settlers since October 7, according to documentation collected by Defense for Children International – Palestine. (Photo: Courtesy of the Mlaitat family)
The United Nations said late on Thursday evening in New York that it had received an evacuation order from the Israeli Defence Forces saying that everyone in northern Gaza should leave within the next 24 hours and go to the south.
The UN’s World Food Programme (WFP) called the situation in the Gaza Strip “dire” and warned that crucial supplies were running dangerously low after Israel imposed a total blockade on the territory.
Israeli warplanes fired three missiles at a residential building at the intersection of Al-Ternis Street in the middle of Jabalia refugee camp in the northern Gaza Strip around 11:30 a.m on October 9, killing 69 Palestinians, including at least 15 children, according to documentation collected by DCIP. (Photo: DCIP / Mohammad Abu Rukbeh)
Yazan Ahmad Abdulnaser Shamlakh, 10, was killed by an Israeli airstrike on October 8 alongside his brothers Abdulnaser, two, and Omar, five months, according to documentation collected by Defense for Children International – Palestine. (Photo: Courtesy of the Shamlkah family)
Israeli forces shot and killed four Palestinian children across the occupied West Bank on October 8 and 9: Yousef Nader Sulieman Idris, 16, (left) Imad Jareh Majed Adaily, 16 (center left), Yaser Thaer Sami Kasba, 17, (center right) and Adam Amjad Fathi Al-Juliani, 17, (right), according to documentation collected by Defense for Children International – Palestine. (Photos: Courtesy of the families).
The Shaban family was killed by an Israeli airstrike on their home in the Al-Nasr neighborhood north of Gaza City on October 8, according to documentation collected by Defense for Children International – Palestine. From left to right: Omar, 11, Batoul, 7, Ghada, 10, and Ahmad Nazir Shawqi Shaban. (Photos: Courtesy of the Shaban family)
Israeli security forces and Palestinian armed groups must make every effort to protect the lives of civilians in today’s outbreak of fighting in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories, said Amnesty International amid a mounting civilian death toll.
