UNRWA: About 400,000 people were displaced in Gaza after the ceasefire agreement collapsed – the seventh day

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The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian Refugees “UNRWA” confirmed the displacement of nearly 400,000 Palestinian citizens in the Gaza Strip since the Israeli army resumed its military operations on March 18.

“It is estimated that about 400,000 people were displaced inside the Gaza Strip after the ceasefire collapsed.”

“These people now live under the longest siege since the outbreak of the war, which hinders the arrival of humanitarian aid and commercial supplies in an unprecedented way.”

In light of this, the agency called for the reactivation of the ceasefire agreement immediately, the release of all the hostages detained in Gaza, and the resumption of the introduction of humanitarian aid and goods into the Palestinian sector without delay.

UNRWA had announced last week that since the war in Gaza, about 1.9 million people, including thousands of children, have passed with frequently forced displacement amid bombing, fear and loss.

The agency confirmed that the collapse of the ceasefire caused another wave of displacement, which affected more than 142 thousand people between 18 and 23 March.

Gaza has witnessed since the beginning of this year an unprecedented military escalation, after Israel resumed on March 18th its military operations against the Strip, ending a fragile truce that lasted for about two months, and carried out a series of intense air strikes and fiery belts on several areas in the Strip.

The recent Israeli military campaign resulted in the fall of hundreds of civilian casualties, while the sector suffers from a almost complete collapse in infrastructure and basic health services.

The United Nations had previously warned that the sector has become a real famine, with a severe lack of food, medicine and fuel. Reports also indicated that 90% of Gaza population suffers from food insecurity to varying degrees.

International organizations continue their calls for immediate ceasefire in Gaza, the release of prisoners, and to ensure that humanitarian aid is unable, at a time when the sector is witnessing one of the worst humanitarian crises since the war began.

The Israeli war on Gaza, since the seventh of October 2023, has left more than 166,000 dead and wounded, most of them children and women, and more than 11,000 missing, according to the Ministry of Health in the Strip.

Israel destroyed 34 out of 38 hospitals, between governmental and private, leaving only 4 hospitals working with a limited ability despite their damage, amid a severe shortage of medicines and medical equipment, according to the latest statistic of the government media office in Gaza.

The Israeli raids also removed 80 health centers from service completely, as well as the destruction of 162 other medical institutions.

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