Intense fighting continuing in northern Gaza

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Al Jazeera’s Tariq Abu Azzoum reports that the central areas of the Gaza Strip are relatively quiet as the Israeli army is focused on the enclave’s besieged north.

“There has been an intensification of strikes on Beit Lahiya and Jabalia in the north, where witnesses say the skyline is completely covered with dust and smoke rising from destroyed buildings amid fighting between Palestinian armed groups and Israeli forces,” Azzoum reports

He adds that the humanitarian situation has catastrophically deteriorated in the north. “The humanitarian response there has been quite strained.”

“Organisations such as Doctors Without Borders are saying that people are dying and only a fraction of the required aid has reached the area,” Azzoum adds.

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