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Israel says fighting likely to continue for months
Updated On: 13 December, 2023 07:26 AM IST | Rafah | Agencies
Aid workers warn of starvation, spread of disease among displaced people
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Pro-Palestinian protestors outside the Hilton Hotel in the US where President Joe Biden visited. Pic/AP
Israel pressed ahead Tuesday with an offensive against Gaza’s Hamas rulers that it says could go on for weeks or months. Ahead of a non-binding vote at the United Nations later Tuesday, Israel and the US faced global calls for a cease-fire in Gaza. The war ignited by Hamas’ October 7 attack into southern Israel has already brought unprecedented death and destruction to the impoverished coastal enclave, with more than 18,000 Palestinians killed, mostly women and minors, and over 80 per cent of the population of 2.3 million having fled their homes.
Much of northern Gaza has been obliterated, and hundreds of thousands have fled to ever-shrinking so-called safe zones in the south. The health care system and humanitarian aid operations have collapsed in large parts of Gaza, and aid workers have warned of starvation and the spread of disease among displaced people in overcrowded shelters and tent camps.
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