UN Rapporteur: Israel Becomes More Sadistic Toward Palestinians  

DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (Dispatches) — The Israeli military ordered the evacuation Monday of part of a crowded area in the Gaza Strip it had designated a humanitarian zone, saying it is planning an operation against Hamas there.
Thousands of Palestinians, many carrying backpacks and accompanied by children, walked down dusty roads under the scorching sun, navigating dilapidated cars with belongings tied on top. Many Palestinians have been uprooted multiple times in search of safety during Israeli’s air and ground invasion. 
“We do not know where we are walking,” said Kholoud Al Dadas, as she clutched her children. “This is our seventh or eighth time we have been displaced. While we were sleeping in our homes, they started shooting at us, bombing from everywhere.” Moments later, she collapsed in exhaustion.
The area where the Zionist military is planning to begin an invasion includes the eastern part of the Muwasi humanitarian zone in the southern Gaza Strip.
Earlier this month, the occupying regime estimated at least 1.8 million Palestinians are now in the humanitarian zone it declared, covering about 14 kilometers (8.6 miles) along the Mediterranean. That’s the bulk of Gaza’s 2.3 million population.
Much of the area is blanketed with tent camps that lack sanitation and medical facilities and have limited access to aid, UN and humanitarian groups say. Families live amid mountains of trash and streams contaminated by sewage.
Gaza’s Health Ministry said the toll from Israel’s nine-month war on Gaza has surpassed 39,000 Palestinians killed and 89,800 wounded.
The invasion plan came as extremist Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu left Monday on a much-anticipated trip to the United States to meet with President Joe Biden, who on Sunday said he would not seek another term, and address Congress. Netanyahu said that regardless of who becomes the next U.S. president, “our enemies must know that Israel and the United States stand together tomorrow and always.” He said he will thank Biden for more than 40 years of friendship, while pushing him for more support on certain issues.
The Zionist military said it was continuing to operate in central and southern Gaza. At least 45 people were martyred in the southern city of Khan Younis, according to hospital officials. One person was killed and three injured in a strike outside Al-Aqsa Hospital in the central town of Deir-Al-Balah, where many people have sheltered outside the facility
The Israeli military announced the deaths of two additional Israeli captives, saying they believe Yagev Buchshtab, 35, and Alex Dancyg, 76, captured on Oct. 7, were no longer alive, based on intelligence. 
Families of captives and thousands of other settlers have held weekly demonstrations to urge the prime minister to reach a ceasefire deal. 
Also Monday, Zionist police said a Canadian citizen was killed after allegedly threatening Israeli forces with a knife near the Gaza border. The Israeli military said the man drove to the entrance of a town close to the border, left his vehicle and approached security forces with a knife. The forces opened fire and killed the man. There were no other injuries.
The attack took place at the entrance to the Netiv HaAsara settlement, 300 meters (yards) north of the border. On Oct. 7, Netiv HaAsara was targteted and 20 Zionists were killed after Hamas fighters passed over the concrete wall using paragliders,

 according to Israeli military officials.
Israel has experienced a wave of stabbing attacks across the occupied territories during the war in Gaza.
Meanwhile, the United Nations accused Israel of targeting a UN humanitarian convoy in central Gaza. Philippe Lazzarini, the head of UNRWA, the main UN group supporting Palestinians in Gaza, said that on Sunday the Zionist regime shot at the convoy near an Israeli military checkpoint and five bullets pierced the clearly marked armored UN vehicle.
Lazzarini said the convoy’s movement had been coordinated with Israeli forces. No one was injured, but Lazzarini condemned the military for targeting humanitarian workers.  
The United Nations Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories, Francesca Albanese, said Israel practises a “brutal and sadistic” apartheid against Palestinians.
“In fact, a single state in Palestine already exists. It is the opposite of democracy and becomes more brutal and sadistic towards its victims every day. Israel practises Apartheid,” she wrote on X.
In a separate tweet, following the International Court of Justice’s ruling on Israel’s occupation, Albanese wrote: “Israel’s 57yo occupation is UNLAWFUL, nothing concerning it should be considered as legal by member states & UN agencies alike and Israel must dismantle it at once, together with its illegal settlement enterprise, the apartheid that has sustained it and also offer reparations to the Palestinians.”