Ambassador Majed Bamya, the deputy permanent observer of Palestine to the UN, has condemned Israel’s eight-day siege of northern Israel, in which hundreds of Palestinians have been reported killed and thousands of residents ordered to flee, Al Jazeera reports.

“What is happening in northern Gaza now is a genocide within the genocide,” Bamya wrote on X.

Osama Hamdan, Hamas’ representative in Lebanon, told Al Jazeera that Israel has “prevented the entry of food supplies to the north for 10 days”, as he called Israel’s recent military operations in the Jabalia refugee camp “a crime against humanity”.

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