Hello and welcome to NewsHour from the BBC World Service coming live from London.
This is Owen Bennett-Jones.
Well, Israel had said it was considering a major Gaza offensive.
once President Trump had left the region on his visit.
And that is now happening,
with the stated aims of dismantling Hamas and freeing the remaining hostages who were seized on October 7,
2023.
The UN has reacted by saying that Israel's aid blockade of Gaza,
together with these attacks, amounts to ethnic cleansing.
Welkhada Al-Kurd is a freelance journalist currently in Gaza City.
What's been happening?
Well, lots of airstrikes, shillings, drones, shooting,
even explosion by robots tank in northern Gaza and eastern parts of Gaza.
Like we've been hearing these sounds all the time and it's very terrifying,
very horrible to hear it again with another military operation by the Israeli army and forcibly to evacuate.
displaced people from North Gaza again, and forcing them as they cleared to south of Gaza.
This is happening while the starvation has reached to the maximum level here in Gaza.
People, they are dying of malnutrition with even kids and children.
People,
they are looking for food amid the exoglogion and they are not being able to move or to flee with their weak bodies.