ISTANBUL: The UN Palestinian refugee agency on Sunday said that its shelters in the Gaza Strip are overcrowded due to massive Israeli bombardment.
Juliette Touma, communications director of the UN Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), has said our shelters in the area are massively overcrowded and they cannot accommodate more people.
She added ‘Gaza doesn’t have civilian infrastructure to support such a huge amount of displaced people, as many now sleeping on streets.
The health ministry in Gaza on Sunday reported that at least 22,835 Palestinians, mostly women and children, have been killed in the ongoing Israeli bombardments in the besieged Palestinian territory since October 7.
The ministry reported that at least 113 deaths were recorded in the past 24 hours alone, with at least 58,416 people wounded during the three-month Israeli military onslaught.
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The UN has said that some 1.87 million Palestinians, over 80 percent of Gaza’s population, have left their homes because of the Israeli bombardment of the besieged enclave.
The Israeli bombing has turned Gaza in ruins, with 60% of the enclave’s infrastructure damaged or destroyed, and residents displaced amid acute shortages of food, clean water, and medicines.
Numerous international legal experts believe that Israel’s actions in Gaza constitute war crimes or genocide.
Meanwhile, UNICEF has called for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza to facilitate the provision of critical child survival interventions.
