Refugees in northern Gaza forced to evacuate in desperate situation

People in the war-torn Gaza Strip have been almost driven to the last ditch, as the Israeli army has continued to carry out military operations in northern Gaza this month.

The Israeli military operation in the Jabalia camp and its surrounding areas in northern Gaza has killed more than 770 Palestinians in the past 19 days, the Hamas-run Gaza media office said on Wednesday.

The ongoing operation has wounded more than 1,000 others and left dozens missing, as many civilians were forcibly displaced from their homes and residential neighborhoods, the office said in a statement.

The Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) said in a statement on Oct 6 that as evidence indicated the presence of militants and their infrastructure in the area of Jabalia, as well as efforts by Hamas to rebuild its operational capabilities in the area, the army had begun operating in the Jabalia area.

This operation to systematically dismantle terrorist infrastructure in the area will continue as long as required in order to achieve its objectives, it added.

Under the pressure from the international community, the Israeli army recently started to require local residents to evacuate along so-called safe roads.

The Israeli army requested residents in Jabalia and the surrounding areas to move to southern Gaza via the Salah al-Din Road, after rounding up and interrogating each of them, including children.

Salah al-Din Road, with a total length of 45 kilometers, is the main north-south traffic route through the Gaza Strip, which has become a lifeline for Gazans.

"They (Israeli army) divided us into two lines, one for men and one for women, and we all walked in separate lines. We were monitored by cameras all the time. The Israeli army detained some people, and some of them were released. We walked to a checkpoint and sat on the ground in the hot sun for more than two hours. The Israeli army asked all of us to lower our heads and not to look at them. We handed over our identification, and they searched and checked people's names in a [mobile phone] system in batches of 10 persons. If people checked were not suspected, they could leave," said Mohammad Kahlot, a fleeing refugee from the Jabalia camp.

Although the Israeli army has allowed people in northern Gaza to evacuate since Tuesday, there are still about 150,000 people who are unable to leave or refuse to leave for various reasons.

Wounded and sick people in the northern Gaza Strip need urgent and rapid health and medical care, but it is currently unavailable due to the destruction of the health system and the shortage of medical supplies, according to Wednesday's statement of the Hamas-run Gaza media office.

"[The Israeli army] stopped their tanks in front of our house. We were sleeping, and suddenly the Israeli army shelled the house next to ours. We didn't know what to do, and the Israeli army rushed into the community and forced us out," said Kamal Abu Khalil, another fleeing refugee from Jabalia camp.

Refugees in northern Gaza forced to evacuate in desperate situation

Refugees in northern Gaza forced to evacuate in desperate situation

Refugees in northern Gaza forced to evacuate in desperate situation

HarmonyOS NEXT has set a model for building operating system ecosystem, said an expert on Tuesday following the launch of the first fully homegrown operating system developed by Chinese tech giant Huawei.

Huawei on Tuesday released the milestone operating system in Shenzhen City of south China's Guangdong Province, marking a watershed achievement in developing China's homegrown mobile operating system.

It has also become the third-largest mobile operating system, following Apple's iOS and Android.

The newly released native HarmonyOS has achieved full-stack independent development, covering everything from the operating system kernel, file system, programming language, compiler, and programming framework, to the AI framework and large models.

It has become China's first fully independently-developed mobile operating system. Previous versions of HarmonyOS had utilized parts of Android's open-source code.

"Our function has shown holistic leap thanks to our brand-new systemic framework. We've deeply integrated the ecosystem of software, hardware, and cloud, resulting in a more than 30 percent increase in smoothness. With our new distributed soft bus, we've achieved seamless cross-end collaboration, offering a natural and frictionless experience. This marks a further upgrade in our full-scenario experience, with connection speeds tripling, connection capacity increasing fourfold, and power consumption reduced by more than 20 percent," said Yu Chengdong, executive director of Huawei.

The biggest difference between the newly released HarmonyOS and Android or Apple's systems lies in its use of a distributed architecture, which enables cross-device collaboration. Developers can achieve one-time development and multi-device deployment. This stems from the fact that HarmonyOS was initially designed with the Internet of Everything in mind.

It is known that there are now over 15,000 native HarmonyOS applications and meta services available, covering 18 industries. General office applications can provide services to more than 38 million businesses nationwide.

"We've often said that China's IT industry lacks both chips and soul. After the chip issue was alleviated, the 'soul-lacking' referred to our dependence on foreign operating systems. With the launch of Huawei's HarmonyOS, we've largely addressed this 'soul' issue. If we think of the mobile internet as a piece of land, we finally have our own land where we can plant our crops. In the past, we were planting our crops on someone else's land. The success of HarmonyOS has established a model for building an operating system ecosystem, which I believe is the most pivotal achievement," said Xu Zhen, researcher, Institute of Information Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences.

HarmonyOS NEXT symbolizes ingenuity of China's homegrown operating system: expert