UN: ’30,000 People Per Kilometer Packed in Al-Mawasi’

The United Nations stated, Wednesday the number of people per square kilometer in Gaza’s “Al-Mawasi” has reached 30,000 due to the influx of displaced people.

UNRWA pointed out that “many Palestinians are taking refuge in parts of Al-Mawasi in the middle of the Gaza Strip, and that the ongoing military operations and that repeated evacuation orders have forced families in Gaza to be displaced repeatedly.”

It added to that “every 30,000 people currently live in one square kilometer in the Al-Mawasi area, compared to 1,200 people per square kilometer before the war of extermination waged by the occupying Israeli state.”

UN data shows “9 out of every 10 people in Gaza have been displaced, and that most Palestinians in Gaza are forced to move at least once a month.”

Al-Mawasi area is located along the coasts of the cities of Deir al-Balah, Khan Yunis and Rafah, overlooking the Mediterranean Sea in the southern Gaza Strip. It lacks infrastructure and has little capacity for urban expansion.

Since 7 October, 2023, the Israeli army continued its aggression on the Gaza Strip, with American and European support, as its aircraft bomb the vicinity of hospitals, buildings, towers, and Palestinian civilian homes, destroying them over the heads of their residents, and preventing the entry of water, food, medicine, and fuel.

The ongoing Israeli aggression on Gaza has led to the martyrdom of 40,223, the injury of 92,981 others, and the displacement of 90% of the Gaza population according to data from the United Nations as pointed out by JO24.

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    Dr. Marwan Asmar holds a PhD from Leeds University and is a freelance writer specializing on the Middle East. He has worked as a journalist since the early 1990s in Jordan and the Gulf countries, and been widely published, including at Albawaba, Gulf News, Al Ghad, World Press Review and others.

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