Publish date8 Apr 2024 - 17:21
Story Code : 631070

UNRWA: 1.7m people were forced to flee their homes in Gaza

More than 1.7 million Palestinians have been forced to flee their homes since the outbreak of the war on Gaza, the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) said yesterday. In a post on X, the UN body said: “Six months of never-ending displacement. Around 1.7 million people have been forced to flee their homes”.
UNRWA: 1.7m people were forced to flee their homes in Gaza
The UN-backed report had warned of an “expected and imminent” famine in northern Gaza, explaining that the number of people in the Palestinian territories facing “catastrophic levels” of hunger has nearly doubled since last December.
Several civilians were killed and others were injured this evening in Israeli shelling that targeted different areas in the Nuseirat refugee camp and Rafah city, in the besieged Gaza Strip.
Medical sources reported that six civilians were killed and several others were injured in Israeli aerial raids targeting a commercial facility in Ain Jalut towers, south of the Nuseirat camp in the central Strip, where displaced persons were taking shelter.
In southern Rafah, Israeli warplanes shelled a group of civilians in the town of Nasr, north of Rafah, killing at least one civilian and wounding several others.
Six bodies were also recovered from under the rubble of a house that was bombed by the occupation at dawn today east of the Shuja'iyya neighborhood of Gaza City. Several people are still trapped under the rubble, said sources.
According to medical sources, the number of civilians killed since the beginning of the occupation's aggression on October 7th has risen to 33,175, most of whom were children and women.
The number of injured has reached about 75,886, said the sources, noting that thousands are still missing under rubble or scattered on the roads as ambulance crews and rescue teams are still unable to reach them.
Within the last 24 hours, the occupation forces have committed four massacres that led to the killing of 38 citizens and the injury of 71 others, added the sources.
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