The nightmare of the war continues in southern Gaza since after the North the target of the Israeli forces has become the South, more specifically the area around Khan Yunis, with the army warning already yesterday, Monday the civilians to move to safer areas. Earlier dozens of tanks, armored personnel carriers and construction equipment were seen moving towards it, according to press reports.

Israeli military vehicles were on the southern part of the main north-south road in Gaza, “firing bullets and tank shells at cars and people trying to move into the area,” a witness, Moaz Mohammed, told AFP.

Meanwhile, rocket warning sirens sounded in the early morning hours in the southern city of Beersheba and Hatzerim, a kibbutz near the Gaza border and an air base in Israel. However, there are no immediate reports of hits, damage or casualties.

WSJ: IDF Plan to Install Pipeline System and Flood Underground Tunnels

According to the Wall Street Journal, citing US government sources, Israel’s military has reportedly installed a pipeline system in the Gaza Strip that it may use to flood underground tunnels used by the armed wing of the Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas. , so as to render them useless and force the fighters of the Ezzedine al-Qassam Brigades to abandon them.

Around mid-November, the newspaper explained, Israel’s military completed the installation of at least five pipelines, about a kilometer and a half from the Ash Shati refugee camp. These pipelines theoretically allow it to pump thousands of cubic meters of water every hour and flood the complex network of underground tunnels within weeks, according to the report.

It is not clear whether and to what extent Israel intends to proceed with this move before all the hostages are released. Hamas has said that captives are in “secure locations and tunnels”.

According to the Wall Street Journal’s sources, Israel notified the US of the plan — which would also affect the small enclave’s water and sewage system — last month, but it is unclear how close the government is to giving the order. of Benjamin Netanyahu.

Israel’s Defense Ministry did not immediately respond when Reuters news agency sought comment.

The UN warns of an even more hellish scenario

In the Gaza Strip, a “scenario even more out of hell” is taking shape, in which humanitarian operations may not be enough to meet the needs, a UN official warned on Monday, as Israel’s military tightens the belt on the Palestinian pouch.

“The necessary conditions do not exist to distribute aid to the population in Gaza. And if that’s possible, it’s heading for an even more hellish scenario that humanitarian operations will be unable to respond to,” he continued.

“No one is safe in Gaza and you can’t go anywhere,” the Canadian insisted, rejecting in these circumstances the idea of ​​”safe zones” mentioned by the US.

These zones can be “neither safe nor humanitarian when declared unilaterally,” he continued.

“What we see today are shelters with no places, the health system on its knees, a lack of clean and potable water, no sanitation and insufficient food for a population mentally and physically exhausted: a textbook recipe for outbreaks and disaster from the point of view of public health,” he explained, stressing that the humanitarian aid and fuel allowed into the Gaza Strip is far from sufficient.

“The margin for a humanitarian response in Gaza is constantly shrinking,” as two key roads were closed to UN teams and trucks, the Jerusalem-based UN official added.

Ms Hastings’ visa will not be renewed by Israeli authorities, who accuse her of not being “impartial”.

The representative of the UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres, calling for the umpteenth time to declare a “permanent humanitarian ceasefire” in the Gaza Strip, called on the Israeli armed forces to avoid “further actions that could aggravate the already disastrous humanitarian situation in Gaza and to protect civilians from further suffering,” nearly two months after the Israel/Hamas war broke out.