The UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) announced the forcible displacement of 1.9 mn people in the Gaza Strip.
In a statement, the UN agency said that "For 2 years too long, UNRWA has been calling for a ceasefire in Gaza, the scale of suffering and destruction is unimaginable." It added, "We call again for a ceasefire now."
Last Friday, the UNRWA reported that the cost of displacement from Gaza City in the north of the Strip to the south is estimated at $3,180 per family. The agency also pointed to severe overcrowding in areas designated for the tents of Palestinians displaced by the Israeli military offensive.
This comes amid the massive humanitarian crisis facing the people of the besieged Gaza Strip, which has been the target of a war of extermination for nearly two years, and amid the intensification of Israeli occupation operations in Gaza City in recent days.
Medical sources in the Gaza Strip announced Sunday that five deaths were recorded in the Strip due to famine and malnutrition over the past 24 hours.
These sources reported that the total number of deaths from famine and malnutrition has risen to 447, including 147 children.
The death toll from the ongoing Israeli aggression on the Gaza Strip, which began on Oct. 7, 2023, has risen to 65,283 martyrs.
In a statement Sunday, the Palestinian Ministry of Health in Gaza said that hospitals in the Strip received, over the past 24 hours, the bodies of 75 martyrs (four of whom were recovered from under the rubble of destroyed buildings) and 304 wounded.
Displaced Palestinians move with their belonging's southwards on a road in the Nuseirat refugee camp area in the central Gaza Strip, as Israel presses its ground offensive to capture Gaza City. AFP
A girl sifts through the rubbish near tents and makeshift shelters at the Bureij camp for refugees in the central Gaza Strip on Sunday. AFP
Displaced Palestinians fleeing Gaza City arrive in the Bureij camp for refugees in the central Gaza Strip on Sunday. AFP
