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The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) stated that intensified Israeli military operations in Gaza City will expose around one million people to new forced displacement.The agency added in a post on the X platform Friday, that any further escalation would exacerbate suffering and push more Palestinian civilians toward catastrophe, amid existing famine.It pointed out that the ongoing Israeli bombardment of the Gaza Strip and evacuation orders are forcing entire families to leave their homes once again amid fear and destruction.Members of the UN Security Council, except the United States, called on Wednesday in a joint statement for an immediate, permanent, and unconditional ceasefire in the Gaza Strip, a significant increase in aid across the sector, and for Israel, the occupying power, to immediately and unconditionally lift all restrictions on the delivery of aid.They also called on Israel to immediately reverse its decision to take control of Gaza City.

Three Palestinians, including a woman and her child, were martyred on Thursday in Israeli occupation shelling of Al-Bureij refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip and Al-Rimal neighborhood west of Gaza City.The Palestinian news agency (WAFA) said that a woman and her child were martyred when the Israeli occupation bombed a home in Al-Bureij refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip.Meanwhile, one civilian was martyred and others were injured when the occupation bombed a residential apartment near the Palestine Tower on Al-Shuhada Street in Al-Rimal neighborhood west of Gaza City, local sources said.Several injuries were reported as Israeli fighter jets struck a tent for displaced people in the Al-Shati refugee camp west of the city, at a time Israeli artillery fired shells toward Street 8 south of Gaza City, with no injuries reported.In Khan Younis, a Palestinian man was martyred following an Israeli airstrike in the city center. Meanwhile, a child was injured as Israeli forces bombed a displacement tent in Badr Camp in northern Al-Shati. Artillery also shelled a house belonging to a family in Deir al-Balah, central Gaza.Since Oct. 7, 2023, the occupation has been committing genocide in Gaza, including killing, starvation, destruction, and forced displacement, ignoring all international appeals and orders from the International Court of Justice to halt it.The genocide has left 62,819 martyred, 158,629 wounded, most of them children and women, more than 9,000 missing, hundreds of thousands displaced, and a famine that has killed 303 Palestinians, including 117 children.

Israeli bulldozers uprooted hundreds of trees in the West Bank village of al-Mughayyir on Sunday in the presence of the Israeli military, according to AFP journalists who witnessed the scene.Most of the felled vegetation appeared to be olive trees, essential to the economy and culture of the West Bank, while olive groves have also long been a flashpoint for violent clashes between farmers and encroaching Israeli settlers.Abdelatif Mohammed Abu Aliya, a local farmer from the village near Ramallah, said he lost olive trees that were over 70 years old on about one hectare of land."They completely uprooted and levelled them under false pretences," he said, explaining he and other residents had already begun replanting the pulled-up trees.AFP photographers on the ground saw overturned soil, olive trees lying on the ground, and several bulldozers operating on the hills surrounding the village.One bulldozer had an Israeli flag, and Israeli military vehicles were parked nearby."The goal is control and forcing people to leave. This is just the beginning -- it will expand across the entire West Bank," said Ghassan Abu Aliya, who leads a local agricultural association.Residents said the bulldozing began on Thursday. A Palestinian NGO reported 14 people had been arrested in the village over the past three days.When asked about the incident, the Israeli army told AFP they were looking into the matter.On August 16, the Palestinian Authority reported that an 18-year-old man had been shot and killed by the Israeli army in the same village.Violence in the West Bank has escalated since the war in Gaza began following the October 7, 2023 Hamas attack on Israel.Since then, at least 971 Palestinians -- including both militants and civilians -- have been killed by Israeli soldiers or settlers in the West Bank, according to AFP figures based on Palestinian Authority data.The West Bank, occupied by Israel since 1967, is home to about three million Palestinians and 500,000 Israelis living in settlements that are considered illegal under international law.