Hundreds of thousands of displaced Palestinians have begun returning to their homes as a ceasefire agreement between the Israeli regime and Hamas resistance movement takes effect.
The UN said on Thursday that more than 417,000 people have been displaced from northern Gaza since mid-August, warning of dire and unsafe conditions in the south, where civilians have been told to move by Israeli forces, Anadolu reports.
The Israeli military on Friday struck a residential building in western Gaza City that houses hundreds of displaced Palestinians in a densely populated area that shelters tens of thousands of civilians.
The UN on Monday raised alarm over continued mass displacement in the Gaza Strip and warned that more than 700,000 people have been uprooted since the end of the ceasefire in March amid ongoing Israeli military operations.
‘Around 140 victims remain trapped under the rubble due to the Israeli army’s deliberate prevention of ambulance and civil defense teams from reaching bombing sites,’ says Office
“An already dire situation is deteriorating due to bombardment and the siege blocking the entry of humanitarian and commercial supplies,” UNRWA said in a statement.
In a statement marking Palestinian Children’s Day, the said “the collapse of the ceasefire caused yet another wave of displacement, impacting over 142,000 people just between 18 and 23 March.”
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In Jenin, the occupation continues its aggression on the city, its camp and some of its towns for the 18th consecutive day, killing 25 Palestinians, including women and children.
These people have already lost their homes due to the prolonged Israeli war, which continued for more than 15 months until a ceasefire took hold on 19 January.
Citing the Office of the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), spokesman Stephane Dujarric reported during a news conference that “more than 45,000 people have been observed moving from the north to the south” of the Gaza Strip.