These displaced people also represent a growth in the number of people staying in U.N. Palestinian Refugee Agency facilities, which is now approaching 900,000, mostly in overcrowded conditions.
The number of internally displaced persons in the Gaza Strip continues to rise and has already been exceeded 1.7 millionequivalent to three-quarters of the total population of the Palestinian territory (2.2 million), according to today’s daily UN report on the war in Gaza.
These moves also imply a gradual growth of the people staying in UN agency facilities for Palestinian Refugees (UNRWA), according to the report They are already approaching 900,000mostly in overcrowded conditions that contribute to the spread of acute respiratory diseases (at least 7,000 according to the World Health Organization) and diarrhea (44,000).
According to the report, heavy fighting between Israeli and Palestinian forces has taken place over the past 24 hours in Gaza City, the capital of the Gaza Strip, and in other northern parts of the territory.
The report also highlights that the past day was one of the darkest for journalists covering the conflict, with four killings of reporters, bringing the total number of professionals killed in the sector to 48 (43 Palestinians, four Israelis and one Lebanese) .
The United Nations also indicated that it has been able to make a preliminary count of those killed on Saturday in the attack on the Al Fakhuri school in Jabalia (North Gaza), a UNRWA facility where 7,000 internally displaced persons are taking refuge: at least 24 people They died in that incident, condemned by the United Nations.
Source: EITB
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