UN says more than 338,000 Palestinians displaced in Gaza
GAZA CITY, Palestine (AA) – The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) has said that the number of Palestinians displaced in Gaza has risen to more than 338,000 amid intensified attacks on the besieged population.
An OCHA official in Gaza, Hamada Al-Bayari, called for a humanitarian truce to allow relief workers to assess the situation in Gaza.
The OCHA’s statement came shortly after the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) said that more than 220,000 Palestinians have taken refuge in 88 of its schools across the Gaza Strip.
In an earlier statement, UNRWA said that half a million people had stopped receiving vital food aid as the agency was forced to close all 14 of its food distribution centers.
Meanwhile, Israeli warplanes continued to carry out heavy airstrikes in various parts of the Gaza Strip.
Israeli forces have launched a sustained military campaign against the Gaza Strip in response to Operation Al-Aqsa Flood, which according to Hamas, was in retaliation to the repeated storming of the sacred Al-Aqsa Mosque in occupied East Jerusalem and Israeli settlers’ growing violence against Palestinians in recent months.
The Israeli military launched Operation Swords of Iron against the Gaza Strip. Israel’s disproportionate response has extended into cutting water and electricity supplies to Gaza, further worsening the living conditions in an area that has reeled under a crippling siege since 2007.
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