Over 1 million Gaza residents forced to leave their homes: UN
More than a million people have been forced to leave their homes in the Gaza Strip due to massive Israeli shelling of the enclave, the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) said.
MEHR: More than a million people have been forced to leave their homes in the Gaza Strip due to massive Israeli shelling of the enclave, the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) said.
"Over one million people - almost half the total population of Gaza - have been displaced. Some 600,000 internally displaced persons (IDPs) are in the Middle Area, Khan Yunis and Rafah, of those, nearly 400,000 are in UNRWA facilities - much exceeding our capacity to assist in any meaningful way, including with space in our shelters, food, water or psychological support," the agency said.
In addition, UNRWA confirmed the deaths of 14 of its staff in Gaza, noting that this number is not final and could rise.
On October 7, the Palestinian resistance movement Hamas launched Operation Al-Aqsa Storm deep into the territories occupied by the Israeli regime. The operation involved large-scale air, land, and sea strikes.
The group said the operation was a reaction to the recurring desecration of the al-Aqsa Mosque in occupied al-Quds as well as intensified Israeli atrocities against Palestinians in the occupied West Bank.
Israel responded with intensive air strikes on civilian targets in the Gaza Strip, killing at least 2,670 Palestinians in Gaza and wounding some 10,000 others, according to the territory’s health ministry.
The regime has also intensified the siege of Gaza, leaving the city, home to more than 2.3 million Palestinians, without water, electricity, fuel and internet.
According to reports, Israel also destroyed some 135,000 houses and residential units in Gaza since the beginning of its savage attacks.
