UN warns of lack of aid in Gaza Strip
The United Nations has announced that the number of refugees who have arrived in the city of Rafah since the start of the Zionist regime's recent aggression in the Gaza Strip has reached nearly one million.
A United Nations report says that following the Zionist regime's escalation of attacks on Khan Younis and Deir al-Balah and orders for the evacuation of these areas, Rafah province, located south of the Gaza Strip, has become the main refuge for refugees and more than one million people live in a very densely populated area. According to a report by the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA), the number of displaced people in the Gaza Strip is 109 million, or approximately 85% of the region's total population, with some people having been displaced multiple times and families were forced to move several times. Some 104 million displaced people live in 155 UNRWA centers in 5 districts of the Gaza Strip. Philippe Lazarini UNRWA Commissioner-General Philippe Lazzarini said Gazans were being subjected to "collective punishment" due to the lack of humanitarian aid. Lazzarini added: “Over the past 3 months, the Gaza Strip has witnessed a brutal war that has resulted in massive displacement, loss of life, injury and destruction.” He explained: "The Palestinian people are being collectively punished and there is no safe place in the Gaza Strip." Since October 7, 2023, with the full support of Western countries, especially the United States and Britain, the Zionist regime began massacres in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank against the defenseless and oppressed people of Palestine. On October 7, 2023, Palestinian resistance groups launched Operation Al-Aqsa Storm from the Gaza Strip against Israeli regime positions, and finally, after 45 days of fighting (November 24, 2023), a four-day temporary ceasefire or "humanitarian pause" was established for exchange prisoners between Hamas and the Israeli regime. This pause in the war lasted seven days, and on Friday morning (December 1, 2023) the temporary ceasefire ended and the Israeli regime resumed attacks on the Gaza Strip in order to avenge the Al-Aqsa Storm, redress its defeat and stop resistance operations. The Zionist regime has closed all checkpoints in the Gaza Strip and continues to bomb the area. The Zionist regime has killed more than 22,600 Gazans and injured more than 57,910 since the Zionist regime's attacks on the Gaza Strip began, 70% of whom were women and children.
