The number of internally displaced people in the Gaza Strip has increased to 1.7 million, according to the United Nations daily report on the war that started on October 7.
The population of Gaza consists of 2.2 million people.
According to the UN Agency for Palestinian Refugees (UNRWA), the number of people housed in the organization’s facilities exceeds 900,000, in increasingly precarious conditions.
The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, which prepares daily reports on Gaza, emphasizes that the lack of conditions is causing an increase in acute respiratory diseases, which already affect 77,000 people, and diarrhea.
According to the same report, fighting between Israeli and Palestinian forces in Gaza city has continued over the past 24 hours, as well as in other areas in the north of the territory.
On Sunday, officials from the World Health Organization and the Palestinian Red Crescent managed to remove 31 premature babies from Al Shifa Hospital, one of the points of the fighting, but five others died in recent days due to power outages at the facilities.
According to the Gaza Ministry of Health, 259 patients remain in the hospital, which the Israeli army says hides one of Hamas’s operational centers in Gaza.which was the target of heavy attacks last week and is now being targeted by Israeli soldiers.
The report also highlights that the last day was one of the most serious for journalists covering the conflict, with four reporters killed, bringing the total number of journalists killed to 48 (43 Palestinians, four Israelis and one Lebanese journalist).
The UN also indicated that it could make a preliminary count of the people killed on Saturday in the attack on the Al Fakhuri school in Jabalia (north of Gaza), a UNRWA facility housing 7,000 internally displaced persons: at least 24 people died. in the area.
Gaza’s Health Ministry has not updated figures regarding victims of the conflict since November 11 due to the lack of communication with hospitals in the north of the besieged strip. The figures therefore remain unchanged: 11,078 deaths (of which 4,506 were children). ) and 27,490 injured.
Source: DN
