EBN- Almost 500,000 Palestinians were forced to evacuate from Rafah City, in the southern Gaza Strip, in just one week, a UNRWA report revealed.
“People face constant exhaustion, hunger, and fear,” warned the UN agency.
Israel’s military says it is continuing “operations against terror targets” in the east of the city, where more than a million people had been sheltering.
On Tuesday morning, UNRWA posted several photos showing empty streets in Rafah which were packed with tents and makeshift shelters before the start of the Israeli operation on 6 May.
Families had fled in search of safety, it said, but added: “Nowhere is safe. An immediate ceasefire is the only hope.”
Meanwhile, 100,000 people have been displaced anew in northern Gaza as Israeli military operation was renewed.
Israeli troops have gone back into the areas of Zeitoun and Jabalia, where the military says Hamas has regrouped only five months after it claimed to have dismantled the group’s local battalions.
The military ordered civilians to evacuate eastern Rafah and Jabalia for their own safety before starting the assaults, but the total of those displaced in recent days is equivalent to almost a quarter of Gaza’s 2.3 million population.
Israel launched a military campaign on the Gaza Strip in response to a cross-border attack on southern Israel on 7 October.
More than 35,170 people have been killed in Gaza since then, including 82 in the past 24 hours, according to the Gaza’s health ministry.
