The United Nations official says that the “Karanty” situation in Gaza City, with the progress of Israeli tanks

The United Nations official told the BBC, as the situation in Gaza City “is not less than the catastrophic.”

Olga Cherevco, a spokeswoman for the United Nations Humanitarian Office, said she had seen a continuous movement of Palestinians heading south during a recent visit to the city, but hundreds of thousands remained.

The World Health Organization (the World Health Organization) has warned that hospitals that were overwhelmed were on the brink of collapse because they were prevented from providing life saving supplies.

The Israeli army said its forces “dismantle the infrastructure of terrorism and eliminate terrorists” in Gaza City.

She said that her goals are to liberate the hostages who are still kept by Hamas and the defeat of up to 3,000 fighters in what he described as the “main stronghold” of the group.

However, the attack on the largest urban area in Gaza, where a million people lived and starvated last month, and was attracted to a large -scale international condemnation.

The United Nations and its human partners have registered at least 200,000 people crossing from north to south of Gaza since mid -August, when Israel announced its intention to invade Gaza City. He made about 55,000 a trip since Sunday.

Cherevko, who works at the United Nations Humanitarian Office in the Central Monk City, told BBC that she had traveled to Gaza City two days ago-a round trip 29 km (18 miles) that lasted 14 hours.

“Things are there, and the scenes are on their way to Gaza City, no less than a disaster,” she recalls.

“A continuous course of people (they) crosses from north to south, and many of them are on foot. Inside Gaza City, it is still very crowded because there are hundreds of thousands of civilians still there.”

She also witnessed several “very close” Israeli strikes from the UN caravan while she was in Gaza City, adding: “It was just a continuous blow after being hit while we were there.”

On Thursday morning, witnesses told Reuters news agency that they had seen the Israeli tanks in the northern Sheikh Radwan neighborhood and the southern neighborhood in Tal Al -Hawa, which was bombed in recent days.

They also stated that the Israeli forces had detonated cars driven by a dimension loaded with explosives in both fields, which led to the destruction of many houses.

Local hospitals said that at least 14 people were killed by Israeli fire through the Gaza Strip on Thursday, including nine in Gaza City.

The Israeli army said in a statement that its forces “expanded” their operations in the city, without giving any details about their movements.

At the beginning of the ground attack on Tuesday, the Chief of Staff, the army, asked the Lieutenant General Eyal Zamir, the forces “intensifying strikes against Hamas and defeating the Gaza City Brigade decisively, in order to implement most of the moral and insignificant duty – the return of all the hostages to the homeland and the decline in the capabilities of the ruler’s bath and the government.”

Cherevko warned that many people were unable to comply with the command of the Israeli army to evacuate the designated “humanitarian area” in the south.

“The calculation of moving your property, if you are lucky enough to find a vehicle that you will move, it is exorbitant. It is not within the reach of many people. For this reason, many do so on foot, with barely ranked in their hands and perhaps a plastic bag.”

She added that as soon as they arrived, there were no guarantees for shelter or safety.

“I spoke to many people who recently arrived at Deir Al -Bala and (Southern City) Khan Yunis. Many of them sit on the side of the street, without anything. They have no shelter. They do not know where to go.

“Yesterday, I met a family that was roaming for four days, in an attempt to find space to sleep and did not run,” she said.

The head of the World Health Organization, Dr. Tedros Adwanum Gabrizos, said that the Israeli attack is “forcing families to shock in a constantly shrinking area for human dignity.”

“The injured and persons with disabilities cannot move to safety, which exposes their lives in great danger,” he wrote on X.

“Hospitals, which are already overwhelmed by, on the brink of collapse as the escalation of violence prevents access and prevents () who are from providing life -saving supplies.”

The United Nations says that there are currently about 1790 beds for internal hospitals for patients 2.1 million from Gaza, which leads to occupancy rates ranging from 180 to 300 % through 17 partially functional hospitals throughout the region.

Ten of these hospitals in Gaza City and one elsewhere in northern Gaza.

On Tuesday, the Ranzi Children’s Hospital in Gaza City – the only specialized children’s hospital in the region – was exposed to three Israeli strikes, causing damage to the water tanks on the roof, electrical communication systems and some medical equipment, according to the Hamas Ministry of Health in Gaza.

Forty patients escaped for safety after the attack, while 40 others, including four children in intensive care and eight newborns, remained at home.

The Israeli army has not yet attached.

Meanwhile, the United Nations Population Fund warned that women are forced to give birth in the streets, without hospitals, doctors or clean water.

The Israeli army launched a campaign in Gaza in response to the Hamas -led attack on southern Israel on October 7, 2023, where about 1,200 people were killed and 251 others took hostage.

At least 65,141 people have been killed in Israeli attacks in Gaza since then, according to the Ministry of Health in the region.

The ministry says 435 other people have died until now during the war as a result of malnutrition and hunger, including four over the past 24 hours.