GAZA (Palestine Foundation Information Center)The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) reported Thursday that around 90% of Gaza residents have been forced to flee their homes since the onset of the war.
UNRWA said in a post on Twitter today that “in 1948, more than 700,000 Palestinians were displaced from their cities and villages. These events are known as the Nakba.”
“77 years later, Palestinians continue to be forcibly displaced”, it added, noting that “since the start of the war in Gaza, around 90% of the population has been forced to flee their homes. Some have been displaced 10 times or more.”
A few days ago, the UN sounded the alarm about using aid “as bait to force people to flee.”
UNICEF spokesman James Elder told reporters in Geneva that the only thing entering Gaza now “is bombs”, adding that “Using humanitarian aid as bait to force people to flee, especially from the north to the south, will create an impossible choice between displacement and death.”
“The situation represented “a profound moral breakdown, and no one will survive the price of this indifference”, he underscored.
Palestinians in the Gaza Strip are facing the longest blockade of aid and commercial supplies since the start of the war.
Since March 2, the Israeli army has prevented the entry of water and basic food supplies to the Gaza Strip after the closure of the crossings, causing a humanitarian catastrophe and exacerbating famine and thirst.
