In the courtyard of a hospital in the northern Gaza Strip, under siege by the Israeli army, young men cry, their faces…stained with tears. Native, white shrouds, some the size of children, from which protrudes an arm or leg covered with ashes.

“There are many dead and people are still under the rubble, missingMohammed Abu Halima, a 40-year-old resident of Jabalia, told AFP.

“For more than a week, there is no more hope, no more water, no more means of survival“, he continues.

The Israeli army is tightening the cordon around Jabalia, a town in the northern Palestinian enclave where Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he was dismantling “Hamas strongholds».

The largest of the historic Palestinian refugee camps is being pounded by Israeli air and ground forces.

Medical supplies are running out, health facilities do not have enough fuel to run power generators.

“We are under siege by Israel,” says Hussan Abu Shafiyya, director of the Kamal Antoine Hospital in Beit Lahia, a neighboring town.

“We are suffering from a blockade on deliveries of food, medicine, medical supplies and even fuel coming from the south to the north. The medical staff is “exhausted, there are very few doctors left“, he said.

The United Nations Service for the Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) released a photo of the Jabalia health center, with the facade of the building almost completely destroyed.

According to UNRWA, more than 400,000 people are in this area where hand-to-hand fighting and airstrikes have intensified.

“We suffered enough, from displacement, hunger and death. We can’t take this war any longerImane Marwan, who is from Jabalia and fled to Deir al-Ballah, told AFP.

In a year of war, Netanyahu has repeatedly vowed to achieve a total victory in the Gaza Strip against Hamas, which experts say has been greatly weakened by the killing of many of its leaders and thousands of fighters.

But the Palestinian Islamist movement continues to fight Israeli soldiers in the field and fire rockets into Israel.

Today, Sunday, Hamas called the Israeli operations in Jabalia a “criminal military campaign».

At least 140 people have been killed there since the start of this new offensive, according to Gaza Civil Protection.

“There are dozens of people who are missing under the ruins and there is nothing we can do to reach them“, said its representative, Mahmoud Basal.

Faced with shortages and under shelling, many residents try to flee, taking with them some bags, pots or containers of water.

Almost all of the Gaza Strip’s 2.4 million residents have already been displaced by the fighting, according to the United Nations, and the Israeli offensive on Jabalia is prompting new displacement.

“In Jabalia, we no longer have the appetite for life”, said 70-year-old Abu Youssef Asaliyah. “Since the start of the war, we have been displaced 12 times, this is our life».