November 2024: Israel's Aggression Against Occupied Palestine

The end of November marked the 421st day of Israel's genocidal aggression against the Gaza Strip. The Israeli Occupation Forces, IOF, continued targeting defenceless Palestinian civilians and their property despite the arrest warrants the International Criminal Court issued against Israeli PM Benyamin Netanyahu and his former defence minister, Yoav Gallant, on charges of crimes against humanity and war crimes committed since the onset of the war in the Gaza Strip. The IOF concentrated their operations in the northern areas of the Gaza Strip, where they continued the military ground assault they started on October 5 and imposed a tight siege on the area, affecting Beit Hanoun the most. Israeli airstrikes continued on Beit Hanoun, Beit Lahia, and Jabalia, as reports spoke of dozens of crimes committed there against Palestinian civilians. In part of those crimes, the IOF bombed shelter centres, setting some on fire, to bar the displaced Palestinians from returning to those centres, which were mostly on school premises. From the beginning of October until the end of November, the Israelis had prevented the entry of aid and food supplies to the northern part of the Gaza Strip. The UN announced it made 41 attempts during November to get to the Palestinians under siege in the north Gaza Strip and hand them what for them was life-saving assistance. The Israeli army facilitated none of those 41 attempts.

 Since last October 23, the Israeli army prevented ambulances and civil defence crews from working in northern Gaza, making it impossible for ambulances and rescue crews to evacuate the wounded and/ or collect the bodies of those killed in Israeli army attacks, which didn’t spare Kamal Adwan Hospital and its surroundings. According to UNRWA Commissioner-General Philippe Lazzarini, the ongoing military operation in the north has led to the displacement of 130,000 people over the past seven weeks. As for Gaza City, the occupation forces targeted residential buildings in the neighbourhoods of Al-Zaytoun and Sheikh Radwan, in addition to the Beach (Shati) refugee camp. Entire families had been killed in some of those attacks. Their records are no longer among the population registrar’s lists. Head of the United Nations Human Rights Office in occupied Palestine, Ajith Sunghay, stated that “Acquiring necessities has become a daily, dreadful struggle for survival” and that “after 13 months of unrelenting violence, the threat of death by starvation, illness or bombardment is real.