UNITED NATIONS: The United Nations Agency for Palestinian Refugees (UNRWA) on Friday said that 9 out of 10 Palestinians have been forcibly displaced in Gaza due to Israel’s war on the besieged enclave.
In a statement, the agency said: “9 in every 10 people have been forcibly displaced in Gaza.” The agency added that “families seek shelter where they can: overcrowded schools, destroyed buildings, makeshift tents on the sand or amid piles of trash.”
It stressed that “none of these places are safe. People have nowhere left to go.”
Israel’s war on Gaza, now in its 294th day, has killed at least 39,175 Palestinians mostly women and children and injured 90,403 others, with more than 10,000 estimated to be buried under the rubble.
United States Vice President Kamala Harris has also called upon Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to reach a ceasefire deal with Hamas soon.
Meanwhile, the World Health Organization is sending more than one million polio vaccines to Gaza over the coming weeks to prevent children from being infected after the virus was found in sewage samples, its chief said.
Adhanom Ghebreyesus added that no cases of polio have been recorded yet, it is just a matter of time before it reaches the thousands of children who have been left unprotected.
He added that children under five were most at risk from the viral disease, especially infants under two. He noted normal vaccination campaigns have been disrupted after more than nine months of conflict in Gaza.
Hundreds of Palestinian and Jewish Israelis marched through Tel Aviv on Thursday night, chanting “yes, to peace, yes, to a deal” and demanding an end to the Gaza War and a rebirth of the peace movement.
