Middle East Eye reports:

Several MPs have urged the UK government to take firm action against Israel after it launched a major military offensive in northern parts of Gaza and ordered the forced mass displacement of nearly 400,000 Palestinians living there.

For six consecutive days, Israeli forces have pummelled the Jabalia refugee camp with air strikes and artillery shelling, despite ordering residents to leave their homes and head south to the Mawasi “humanitarian zone”.

At least 120 Palestinians are known to have been killed in the Jabalia camp, as well as the cities of Beit Hanoun and Beit Lahiya, but aid agencies have warned that the death toll is likely to be far higher after three hospitals were ordered to shut down their operations.

The latest offensive comes weeks after a controversial proposal named the “Generals’ Plan” was presented to the Israeli government, which would see areas north of the Netzarim Corridor emptied of its residents so Israel could establish a “closed military zone”. [Continue reading…]