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The humanitarian situation in Gaza is ‘deplorable’, the UN chief says, as Israel’s ‘ceasefire’ violations continue.
Israel issued evacuation orders to several areas in Gaza before shelling the Palestinian enclave, killing at least two people, medical sources said.
Thursday’s strike is the latest in a series of military escalations by the Israeli military despite the United States breaking a “ceasefire” that began last year.
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Reporting from Gaza City, Al Jazeera’s Ibrahim al-Khalili said the Israeli army bombed Gaza heavily after issuing threats of deportation to residents of four different areas.
“The most worrisome thing is that these warnings have been heeded and attacked the areas where people were told to flee,” al-Khalili said. He added that the strikes on Gaza City had caused a huge fire which the Civil Defense forces were still trying to put out.
Israeli airstrikes destroyed buildings in the Bureij and Jabalia refugee camps, as well as in the Zeitoun and Tal al-Hawa neighborhoods of Gaza City.
A separate Israeli missile, which hit a house in the Zeitoun neighborhood in the southeast of Gaza City, wounded several people, a source at al-Ahli Hospital told Al Jazeera.
“For families here, the evacuation order means more than just moving from one place to another; it means leaving any place they can find – often at night and out of fear – many people are forced into the streets because they have nowhere else to go,” said al-Khalili.
Israel’s war in Gaza has killed at least 73,311 Palestinians, according to health officials, including more than 1,185 since the October 2025 “ceasefire”.
The Israeli attack comes as the US plan for Gaza, which includes the deployment of international troops and a blockade of the territory, remains on hold.
Egypt’s Foreign Minister, Badr Abdelatty, urged US Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Thursday to speed up the deployment of the International Stabilization Force (ISF) in Gaza at a meeting on the sidelines of the ASEAN summit in Manila.
A statement from Egypt’s Foreign Ministry said Mr. Abdelatty stressed the need to establish a committee tasked with overseeing Gaza to help end the conflict and restore stability in the region.
Egypt’s call coincides with Israeli media reports that 30 Moroccan officials have traveled to Gaza to prepare for the deployment of troops as part of the ISF.
Morocco announced this month that it would send security personnel and set up a field hospital in Gaza.
The humanitarian crisis continues
Despite the “ceasefire”, the humanitarian situation in Gaza remains dire.
A new study from UN agencies has found that about 1.4 million people, 67 percent of Gaza’s population, still face “critical or acute food insecurity” – without enough food – down slightly from 1.6 million at the end of last year.
Ross Smith, the UN World Food Programme’s head of emergency preparedness and response, told Al Jazeera that “the situation is not good in Gaza”.
“They still don’t have a humanitarian problem,” Smith said.
“So we need to continue to monitor the needs of the people inside Gaza, we need to continue to support the people inside Gaza, and we need to continue to provide humanitarian aid.
The UK Foreign Office, meanwhile, has ordered Israel to lift aid restrictions to Gaza.
“Gaza continues to face many problems of lack of food. Avoiding hunger does not mean that things are going well,” said the statement of the Prime Minister’s government. Andy Burnham.
The Foreign Office also said that the restrictions on aid to Israel are “driving diseases, water shortages and reducing health services”.
