Area offers desperate families in Gaza relative safety but conditions are dire and threat of Israeli attacks remain

A month ago Nariman Salman decided to finally flee northern Gaza and head for al-Mawasi, a narrow strip of coastline at the southernmost end of the territory designated as a “humanitarian zone” by the Israeli military.

The decision was reluctant but unavoidable. When Salman, 42, was reduced to sending her young son around neighbours to beg for a single piece of bread for her pregnant daughter, she knew the family had to leave. Days earlier, her eldest son had been stabbed to death for a bag of flour.

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• Israel isolated as UN security council demands immediate ceasefire in Gaza

Unrwa’s planning director has said “more people will die” in the north of the Gaza Strip as a result of Israel barring the agency from delivering aid there.

Sam Rose is quoted by Al Jazeera saying:

An independent authority warned last week of an imminent famine and people are already dying of starvation up in the north. And this is essentially a death sentence on many of those people. The situation is particularly harsh in northern Gaza, where we estimate about 250,000 people have been trapped. More people will die.

Aid group says one of its staff was killed when tanks pushed back into areas around al-Amal and Nasser hospitals

Israeli forces have besieged two more hospitals in Gaza, pinning down medical teams under heavy gunfire, according to the Palestinian Red Crescent.

“All of our teams are in extreme danger at the moment and are completely immobilised,” the humanitarian organisation told Reuters on Sunday, adding one of its staff was killed when Israeli tanks pushed back suddenly into areas around al-Amal and Nasser hospitals in the southern city of Khan Younis.