Attack by Hamas | With a million people forced to leave their homes in Gaza, Israel promised to restore water supply to the south

in Gaza an estimated one million people have been forced to leave their homes due to the conflict between Israel and the extremist organization Hamas, which has continued for more than a week, said a representative of UNRWA, the UN aid organization for Palestinian refugees Juliette Touma news agency AFP on Sunday. The organization believes that the number will still rise from here.

Israel has bombed Hamas targets in the Gaza Strip since the extremist group’s fighters attacked southern Israel on Saturday, October 7.

More than 1,400 people have been killed in Hamas attacks, the Israeli Prime Minister’s Office said on Sunday. In Gaza, on the other hand, at least 2,450 people have died in Israeli airstrikes, Palestinian officials said on Sunday.

Humanitarian the fear of a crisis in Gaza is growing. Israel cut off the supply of water, food and gasoline as well as electricity to the area, which has made the situation of many civilians in the area very difficult.

However, the United States announced on Sunday that Israel had again allowed water to enter the southern part of Gaza. The National Security Adviser of the White House told about it Jake Sullivan. A representative of the authority responsible for Gaza’s water supply, on the other hand, told the news channel for CNNthat the matter could not be confirmed yet, because the water distribution would also need electricity or fuel for the generators to function.

Also Israel’s energy minister Israel Katz confirmed on Sunday the start of water distribution to southern Gaza.

Israel has given an evacuation order to more than a million people living in the northern part of Gaza. Many Palestinians have fled to the southern part of Gaza.

“The situation is catastrophic. We haven’t eaten, we haven’t slept. We don’t know what to do. I have placed my trust in God,” said the news agency to AFP Jumaa Naserwho had fled northern Gaza with his wife, mother and seven children.

The World Health Organization, on the other hand, warned in his statementthat forcing thousands of hospital patients to evacuate to already full hospitals in southern Gaza could be a death sentence for the sick and wounded.

Representatives of the Israeli armed forces said on Sunday that a political decision to start the ground operation was still awaited.

“We are having discussions with our political decision-makers”, a representative of the armed forces Richard Hecht said according to news agency AFP.

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The United States announced on Sunday that Israel had once again allowed water to enter southern Gaza.

Although the residents of the area have been given an evacuation order, but many do not know where to run to.

of Le Monde magazine Jerusalem Correspondent Clothilde Mraffko writes that many Gazans have nowhere to flee. Some have also been afraid to leave their homes due to the continuous bombings, and not everyone has access to a car.

According to the newspaper, Israel has struck against Palestinian evacuation transports. According to the Palestinian authorities, at least 70 were killed and 200 wounded in the attack on Salah al-Din road on Friday.

British newspaper Guardian write, that Israel would have also bombed the supposedly “safe” exit routes. The newspaper bases its information on satellite images and social media images collected by the Palestinian human rights organization.