9 out of 10 Gazans displaced at least once since October 7: UN

Palestine

Published: 2024-07-04 09:54

Last Updated: 2024-07-04 19:38


9 out of 10 Gazans displaced at least once since October 7: UN (Photo: AFP)
9 out of 10 Gazans displaced at least once since October 7: UN (Photo: AFP)

The UN reported that approximately nine out of ten people in Gaza have been displaced at least once since the onset of “Israeli” aggression on the strip.

Andrea De Domenico, the Head of the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) in the Occupied Palestinian Territories, revealed that around 1.9 million people are believed to have been displaced in Gaza.


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"We estimate that nine out of ten people in the Gaza Strip have been internally displaced at least once, if not up to ten times, since October,” De Domenico told journalists.

“Previously, we estimated there were 1.7 million displaced, but since reaching that number, there has been the operation in Rafah and the additional displacement there,” he continued. “We have also seen operations in the north that have led to people moving. Such military operations have forced people to repeatedly rearrange their lives. Behind these numbers are people with fears and complaints, who may have had dreams and hopes diminishing over time. The people who have been relocated in the past nine months have been like pawns in a board game."

De Domenico added that “Israeli” military operations have effectively divided the Gaza Strip into two parts.

OCHA estimates that between 300,000 to 350,000 people are living in the northern part of the besieged area, unable to move to the south.

He confirmed that since the beginning of the aggression, an estimated 110,000 people managed to leave Gaza for Egypt before the Rafah Border Crossing closed in early May.


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Some of these individuals remained in Egypt, while others moved to different countries.