UNRWA Chief: ‘400,000 People Trapped in North Gaza’

“At least 400,000 people are trapped in the northern Gaza Strip, and Israeli evacuation orders are forcing people to flee repeatedly, especially from Jabalia camp,” UNRWA Commissioner-General Philippe Lazzarini, said.

“A large number of Palestinians are refusing to evacuate, because they realize that there is no safe place in the Gaza Strip,” he explained in a press statements, Wednesday.

“The spread and worsening famine throughout the Strip, with the lack of basic supplies,” is more acute than ever, Lazzarini pointed out.

“Some of the agency’s shelter and service centers are being forced to close for the first time since the beginning of the war,” he added.

“The continued bombing threatens the implementation of the second phase of the polio vaccination campaign in the Gaza Strip,” he emphasized.

The Israeli occupation army, supported by the United States and Europe, has been continuing its aggression on the Gaza Strip for a whole year, as its warplanes bomb the vicinity of hospitals, buildings, towers and homes of Palestinian civilians, destroying them over the heads of their inhabitants, and preventing the entry of water, food, medicine and fuel.

The ongoing aggression by the occupation on Gaza has led to the martyrdom of more than 41,965 martyrs, the injury of more than 97,590 others, and the displacement of 90% of the population of the Strip, according to data from the United Nations.

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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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