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UNITED NATIONS – The number of displaced people in the Gaza Strip due to the Israeli army offensive has now reached one million peopleThe communications director of the UN Agency for Palestinian Refugees (UNRWA), Juliette Touma, said this Monday at a press conference.
From his offices in Gaza, Touma said by videoconference that these figures are “changing” and do not stop growing, but that his agency, with 13,000 employees and abundant infrastructure in the Strip, is the best placed to observe the high level of displacement.
A large part of the internally displaced have sought refuge with relatives or acquaintances further southbut at least 400,000 are being sheltered in a hundred UNRWA centers, mainly schools – which can function as shelters – but also in food or material warehouses and without basic services, “not equipped for human beings.”
The shelters are so overcrowded that sometimes “Hundreds of people have to share a single bathroom,” he explained.
Furthermore, he warned of the serious shortage of goods in Gaza: “No merchandise has entered Gaza since the 7th (October): neither food, nor water, nor any kind of aid.”Touma insisted.
Touma warned in particular that the lack of drinking water – which came mainly from desalination plants that run on fuel and are now stopped – is leading Gazans to resort to informal water sources, mainly poorly dug wells, and this is a very likely source of infectious diseases.
On the other hand, UNRWA has lost fourteen workers in the Israeli bombings, most of them teachers, Touma said.
Health officials in Gaza reported that at least 2,750 people have been killed in the Israeli strikes, a quarter of them children, and nearly 10,000 have been wounded. Many of the 1,000 people missing are believed to be under rubble.
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