Palestinian UN envoy condemns Israeli siege in Gaza as ‘genocide within genocide’

Majed Bamya, the deputy permanent observer of Palestine to the UN, has denounced Israel’s eight-day siege of northern Gaza, where hundreds of Palestinians have been killed and thousands forcibly expelled under the threat of death if they remain.

“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 had “prevented the entry of food supplies to the north for 10 days”, and described Israel’s military actions in the Jabalia refugee camp as “a crime against humanity”.