{"id":3310,"date":"2024-08-22T18:24:26","date_gmt":"2024-08-22T18:24:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/globalcommunities.org\/2024\/08\/22\/gaza-new-israeli-orders-force-thousands-in-deir-al-balah-to-flee-again-and-disrupt-last-aid-hub\/"},"modified":"2025-09-05T10:14:14","modified_gmt":"2025-09-05T10:14:14","slug":"gaza-new-israeli-orders-force-thousands-in-deir-al-balah-to-flee-again-and-disrupt-last-aid-hub","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globalcommunities.org\/press-releases\/gaza-new-israeli-orders-force-thousands-in-deir-al-balah-to-flee-again-and-disrupt-last-aid-hub\/","title":{"rendered":"Gaza: New Israeli orders force thousands in Deir al-Balah to flee again, and disrupt last aid hub"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

New displacement orders issued by Israeli authorities have forced another mass movement of families and humanitarian workers from areas in Deir al-Balah – one of the only remaining areas in the occupied Gaza Strip with essential infrastructure and warehouses storing aid supplies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Many Palestinian families, already forcibly displaced countless times since October, are on the move yet again, including humanitarian workers critical to providing the limited aid response that is still possible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At least 24 NGOs have reported impacts from orders in the past week resulting in the forced displacement of staff members, operations disrupted, and at least one site sheltering civilians under attack. Warehouses storing supplies are located within the blocks that have come under orders that are resulting in forcible displacement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So-called \u2018\u201cevacuation\u201d orders issued by Israeli authorities on 13, 15, 16 and 21 August continue to obstruct aid operations, affecting a number of agencies including Save the Children, Mercy Corps, the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC), MSF, Solidarit\u00e9s International, Medical Aid for Palestinians, Oxfam, Humanity & Inclusion, Action Against Hunger, Islamic Relief, Project HOPE, DanChurchAid and Norwegian Church Aid and partners, and Palestinian partners of ActionAid, War Child, Danish Refugee Council, M\u00e9dicos del Mundo, Middle East Children\u2019s Alliance and WeWorld.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A shelter belonging to NERA has come under fire, while NRC has waited more than 15 days for the Israeli authorities to respond to a request to deconflict an area where they seek to relocate staff following Israel\u2019s latest displacement order.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The UN said<\/a> that multiple orders issued by Israeli forces in Khan Younis and Deir al-Balah between 8 and 17 August impacted 17 health facilities, including five primary healthcare centers and nine medical points, disrupting essential health services. Disruptions will also threaten the ability to administer critically needed polio vaccines once they arrive in Gaza.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Communities are cut off from vital aid, as suppliers who deliver essential items like water, face challenges reaching locations close to the areas which people have been ordered to leave.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Humanitarian actors must be allowed to deliver aid based on need rather than the designation of safe areas by a party to the conflict.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cEven if Israeli authorities let polio vaccines in, with the biggest responders in Gaza constantly pin-balled from one place to the next, how can we deliver an effective campaign and reach the children in dire need of that protection? If you want to understand the access situation, this is it – not the trickle of trucks exceptionally allowed to enter.\u201d said Jeremy Stoner, Save the Children Regional Director for the Middle East.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cPalestinians in Gaza have been relentlessly uprooted, forced from one so-called ‘safe’ area to the next, enduring unimaginable hardship and loss. Among them are brave humanitarian workers who risk their lives every day to save others. Our ability to provide meaningful aid in any part of Gaza does not meet our ambitions, l let alone the overwhelming needs. Deir al-Balah, once declared a humanitarian zone, is now under attack with bombardment at our doorstep,\u201d said Sally Abi Khalil, Oxfam\u2019s Regional Director for the Middle East and North Africa.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe are a humanitarian organisation, trying to deliver humanitarian services in what Israel had unilaterally declared a \u2018humanitarian zone\u2019. These conditions don\u2019t just punish us, they impact civilians in desperate need of assistance,\u201d said Suze van Meegen, NRC\u2019s acting Country Director in Palestine.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe situation has become incredibly dangerous. There’s constant fighting, and the sounds of shelling and explosions are clearly audible. Skin diseases are spreading rapidly. We\u2019re all becoming paranoid that we\u2019ll get infected. The physical toll is real. I\u2019ve been having severe stomach pains, likely from the contaminated water we\u2019re forced to drink. I don\u2019t know how much longer we can survive like this,” <\/em>said Lena*, Mercy Corps staff member in Gaza.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For more than 10 months, humanitarian organisations have called for an immediate and sustained ceasefire. Now the looming risk of a polio outbreak and urgent need to vaccinate children in Gaza makes this more urgent than ever.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

All parties to conflict have an obligation to facilitate humanitarian access at all times. Israel as the occupying power is obligated to ensure that the humanitarian needs of the occupied population are met. This includes facilitating humanitarian aid and creating conditions that enable the safe provision of supplies, and has been ordered by the International Court of Justice in its provisional measures of 26 January and 24 May.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rafah served as the main hub for Gaza\u2019s strained aid operations until early May, when Israeli forces expanded their ground operations there. Aid agencies were forced to move their operations to Deir al-Balah. With northern Gaza decimated, southern Gaza largely inaccessible, civilians and aid workers, and critically needed humanitarian operations, now have nowhere left to go.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Editor\u2019s Note<\/strong>
The Israeli designated \u201chumanitarian zone\u201d now ecompasses less than 11 percent<\/a> of Gaza, according to the UN.
Civilians who are unable or unwilling to leave their homes remain protected under international humanitarian law.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Signed on:<\/strong>
Save the Children
War Child
ActionAid
DanChurchAid
Solidarit\u00e9s International
Islamic Relief
Middle East Children\u2019s Alliance
Danish Refugee Council
WeWorld
Humanity & Inclusion\/ Handicap International (HI)
Norwegian People’s Aid
Project HOPE
The Palestinian Association for Empowerment and Local Development \u2013 REFORM
Agricultural Development Association – PARC
Anera
M\u00e9dicos del Mundo
M\u00e9decins Sans Frontieres \/ Doctors Without Borders (MSF)
Medical Aid for Palestinians
Norwegian Church Aid
Action Against Hunger
ChildFund Alliance
Global Communities
Mercy Corps
Oxfam
CARE International
Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC)
American Friends Service Committee (AFSC)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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