Farhan Haq, Deputy Spokesperson of the United Nations, added on Thursday local time that the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) had reported that since Tuesday, when the ground operation of the Israeli army began in Rafah, about 80,000 people have been displaced.
Nearly two dozen Palestinians, including eight children, have been killed and several more injured as in past 24 hours of Israeli air strikes targeting mainly the residential buildings in the besieged Gaza Strip.
The incessant Israeli onslaughts against the Gaza Strip has left more than 60 percent of the homes in the besieged territory destroyed, says a report by the United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees.
The UN office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) says Israeli attacks on Rafah could lead to “large scale” human loss in a small city overcrowded due to the displaced Palestinians from other parts of the besieged strip.
In a statement, the office said the latest fatalities were journalists Rami Badir and Assem Kamal Musa, who was killed in Israeli raids during the past two days.
“If there is fighting there is indeed a higher likelihood that they might wish to flee further south and beyond the border,” UNRWA quoted its Commissioner-General Philippe Lazzarini as saying in an interview by British daily The Guardian.
Palestinians are living a desperate life under Israel’s daily onslaughts since the escalation that followed the unprecedented attack on October7th. According to Gaza Health Ministry, the number of Palestinians killed during over a month of Israeli brutal aggression against the besieged Gaza Strip has surpassed 11,240, the majority of whom are children ...
In a statement, the Health Ministry in Gaza released the names of the journalists killed in the enclave, which has been under heavy attacks by Israel for 23 days.
A delegation of the United Nations has expressed shock over the scale of destruction left from two decades of Israeli onslaught against the West Bank city of Jenin and the Palestinian refugee camp there.