The Israeli army has ordered the evacuation of northern Gaza within 24 hours, something the UN considers “impossible” to obey and which Hamas is strongly urging not to do.
The humanitarian situation in Gaza is complicated by the 24-hour evacuation order for civilians in the north of the strip given by Israel, something the UN deems “impossible” to meet and Hamas urges not to comply, as diplomatic efforts intensify to stop a conflict entering its seventh day.
The evacuation order involves the rehousing of at least 1.1 million people -almost half the population of the Strip-, something the UN also sees “impossible” now and that this could have ‘serious humanitarian consequences’.
Israel’s call to evacuate civilians from northern Gaza, including the capital, has forced the United Nations Palestinian Refugee Agency in the Near East (UNRWA) to move its main operations center and non-local staff to the south of the enclave to to continue its humanitarian activities. activities.
World Health Organisation (WHO) has in turn indicated this evacuating hospitals in northern Gaza is impossible because many patients would die during the transfer and also the hospitals in the southern part of the strip are overwhelmed and do not have the capacity to care for those who would arrive. The WHO had previously said that time is running out to prevent a humanitarian catastrophe, which will happen if fuel and medical supplies cannot be delivered urgently.
Access to the food it’s getting harder and harder and essential services -sanitary, water and basic sanitary facilities on the verge of collapse after the total interruption of the electricity supply.
In the final balance The Gaza Ministry of Health provided the figure of 1,537 deaths, including 500 children and 276 women. The number of injured is 6,268.
Source: EITB
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