Gaza: Israel’s Northern Offensive Endangering Hundreds of Thousands of Civilians

By Human Rights Watch

Click to expand Image Displaced Palestinians flee after an evacuation order by the Israeli military in Jabalia in the northern Gaza Strip on October 23, 2024.  © 2024 Rami Zohud/Middle East Images/AFP via Getty Images (Beirut, October 26, 2024) – Israel’s renewed northern Gaza offensive is displacing and endangering hundreds of thousands of Palestinians, Human Rights Watch said today. Videos, photographs, satellite imagery, media reports, and UN agency reports analyzed by Human Rights Watch show that civilians are at grave risk of mass forced displacement and other atrocities as the…

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