As fighting rages, displaced Gazans struggle with disease and lack of shelter

Cairo/Deir Al Balah, Gaza Strip: Thousands of Palestinians evacuated a town in the central Gaza Strip on Monday in response to new Israeli evacuation orders, exacerbating the humanitarian crisis in an area already overcrowded with displaced residents fleeing an attack in the south.
Israeli troops, who have now seized practically the entire Gaza Strip after nearly ten months of fighting, have spent the last few weeks waging large operations in regions where they had previously claimed to have eradicated Hamas members.

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Hundreds of thousands of civilians have descended to Deir Al-Balah, a tiny city in the middle of the enclave that is the only major region yet to be invaded, many of whom were pushed there by fighting in the rubble of Khan Younis farther south last week.
In its most recent attack, Israel ordered inhabitants to vacate Al-Bureij, located immediately northeast of Deir.
“What’s left?” Deir? Deir is densely populated. Everyone is in Deir. All of Gaza. “Where should they go?” Aya Mansour told Reuters in Deir, after escaping Bureij.

Hundreds of thousands of civilians have descended to Deir Al-Balah, a tiny city in the middle of the enclave that is the only major region yet to be invaded, many of whom were pushed there by fighting in the rubble of Khan Younis farther south last week.
In its most recent attack, Israel ordered inhabitants to vacate Al-Bureij, located immediately northeast of Deir.
“What’s left?” Deir? Deir is densely populated. Everyone is in Deir. All of Gaza. “Where should they go?” Aya Mansour told Reuters in Deir, after escaping Bureij.

Some family utilized donkey carts and rickshaws to transport their remaining items. Many people trekked for many kilometers to reach Deir or Al-Zawayda town in the west.
According to Philippe Lazzarini, administrator of UNRWA, the United Nations assistance organization for Palestinians, just 14 percent of the Gaza Strip has not been ordered evacuated by the Israeli force. People have been compelled to evacuate many times, frequently with only a few hours warning.

According to charity worker Tamer Al-Burai in Deir, water is becoming increasingly difficult to obtain as more displaced people come, both from Khan Younis to the south and Bureij to the north.
“The situation is catastrophic, people are sleeping in the streets,” he replied.

CEASEFIRE TALKS

Although Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has faced weekly rallies by Israelis seeking a ceasefire to free the more than 100 captives still held in Gaza, there has been no evident movement in talks mediated by Qatar and Egypt.
Negotiations are expected to resume after Israeli officials returned from the most recent meeting in Rome on Sunday. Washington, which sponsors the negotiations, has often stated that a solution is close; the most recent talks are around a plan announced by President Joe Biden in May.

“People here live in hope of a cease-fire, but it is all a fiction. I suppose I’ll die here. “No one knows who will die first here,” said Aya Mohammad, 30, a Gaza City resident hiding in Deir.
Water scarcity has exacerbated health issues caused by poor sanitation. Many displaced individuals were suffering from skin ailments, and children were feverish, sobbing constantly, and refusing to eat or breastfeed, according to Hussam Abu Safiyah, director of the Kamal Adwan Hospital in northern Gaza.
According to Israeli estimates, the conflict began with a Hamas-led attack on southern Israel, in which 1,200 people were murdered and around 250 captives were abducted.

Since then, Israeli troops have murdered around 39,000 Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, according to health officials, who do not discriminate between militants and civilians but claim more than half of those killed are women or children. Israel, which has lost over 330 troops in Gaza, claims that one-third of those killed were combatants.
Hamas has requested a route to an end to the Gaza war as a condition for agreeing to a ceasefire. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has stated repeatedly that the conflict would end only if Hamas is vanquished.