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Israel’s military operations in northern Gaza have caused “widespread devastation and deprivation” and made “conditions of life untenable for the Palestinian population,” the United Nations has said.1Stéphane Dujarric, spokesman for António Guterres, secretary general of the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), said that there have been “harrowing levels of death, injury, and destruction” in the area and “little regard for the requirements of international humanitarian law.” He added that “repeated efforts to deliver humanitarian supplies essential to survive—food, medicine, and shelter—continue to be denied by the Israeli authorities, with few exceptions, putting countless lives in peril.”Israeli forces began issuing mass evacuation orders in the north of Gaza in early October, saying that Hamas had regrouped there.2 People were told to move south to a “humanitarian” zone, but the charity Human Rights Watch said these areas lacked food, shelter, water, and medical care. Israeli forces have “frequently...

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