According to an Israeli general and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, the Israeli forces have surrounded parts of the city, but the forces are not yet inside the city core. – The fight is at its most intense. We have been very successful and have passed the outskirts of Gaza City. We are moving forward, says a statement from the Prime Minister’s Office. In the past, it has been stated from the Israeli side that fighting is taking place in the suburbs and in the street environment. It is also claimed that Hamas soldiers carry out so-called “hit and run” attacks, that people appear from tunnel openings, houses and apartments, shoot at the Israeli forces and disappear again, writes the Reuters news agency. This has not been confirmed from independent sources. Serious risk of genocide At the same time, a group of UN experts warns that the Palestinian population in the Gaza Strip is exposed to a “serious risk of genocide”. – Time is running out to avoid genocide and a humanitarian disaster in Gaza, says a statement from several of the UN’s special rapporteurs. The statement was published on Thursday afternoon. They also demand a humanitarian cease-fire to ensure that emergency aid reaches the Gaza Strip. – It is time to act. Israel’s allies also have a responsibility and must act now to prevent the disastrous line the country has taken, they write further. The UN Genocide Convention lists several acts that individually constitute genocide if they are committed with the intent to destroy, in whole or in part, “a nation, ethnic, racial or religious group as such”. The acts listed include killing, physical and psychological harm, preventing births, removing children, and subjecting a group to living conditions conducive to its physical destruction. The WHO chief uses the word “terrible” The head of the World Health Organization (WHO) Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus repeated at a press conference his urgent call to Israel to stop the bombing of the Gaza Strip. – 23 hospitals in Gaza City and northern Gaza have been ordered to evacuate all their patients. A forced evacuation under the prevailing conditions would put the lives of hundreds of patients at risk, Tedros said. The WHO chief said there are about 21,000 injured in Israel and Gaza together and 1.4 million displaced in the Gaza Strip. – We no longer have words to describe the terrible things that are unfolding in Gaza, said Tedros. At a press conference, Benjamin Netanyahu said that no decision has been made to transfer fuel to the Gaza Strip. Hospitals and health clinics in the Gaza Strip are now run by generators and stocks of fuel are running low, according to doctors, hospital managers and UN organisations. American citizens out According to US President Joe Biden, 74 people with Israeli-American citizenship are out of the Gaza Strip.
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