Displaced Palestinians sit in the back on a loaded truck on Salah al-Din road in al-Mughraqa in the central Gaza Strip, on February 10, 2025. (Photo by Eyad BABA / AFP)
Gaza: The municipalities of Al Maghraqa, Al Zahra, and Wadi Gaza, located on the perimeter of Netzarim corridor declared that they had become ill-fated zones due to the Israeli offensive, calling for an urgent international intervention to provide all kinds of live-saving relief, especially the basic services, in addition to repairing the damages and providing interim residential units to shelter thousands of displaced people.
The three municipalities from which the Israeli occupation army withdrew on Sunday, leaving widespread devastation, stated that the Israeli army destroyed all life components in those areas turning them into ill-fated zones and demolition site, with the total damage estimating at roughly USD 1 billion in multiple sectors.
Throughout a press conference on Monday, the three municipalities highlighted that the Israeli occupation army intentionally decimated all buildings and residential structures within the three zones, which reached 13,200 residential units, rendering tens of thousands of people as homeless.
They added that the Israeli machinery systematically dredged 24 water wells and destroyed water tanks with a capacity exceeding 1,300 cubic meters, along with water networks, as well as the razing of thousands of dunams of agricultural land and culling livestock which were among the primary sources supplying the local market with agricultural and livestock products.
During its onslaught, the Israeli occupation army conducted scholasticide, thereby targeting 28 educational establishments and dredged all roads that approximately exceed 100 km, and decimating electricity and internet grids, in addition to disrupting health facilities by bombing all hospitals, health centers, and numerous public and private facilities, the municipalities emphasized.
They stressed that the Israeli aggression dramatically impacted the critical infrastructure in those three municipalities, thereby imposing a new reality that requires immediate solutions and long-term strategies.
They called for the importance of allocating temporary residential units "Caravans" to residents in the aforementioned zones pending reconstruction operation.
The three municipalities appealed to all UN organizations and international institutions to provide nearly 11,500 interim shelters for over 41,000 people who lost their homes because of the aggression, stressing that responding to this appeal is not merely a moral and humanitarian obligation, but rather an international responsibility that necessitates solidifying efforts to secure the shelters that safeguard the dignity of those affected people.
The withdrawal of the Israeli occupation army from Netzarim corridor exposed the massive devastation as a result of the offensive on its perimeter with full alteration of the infrastructure and geographical structure.
