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UNRWA: 100,000 Palestinians killed, wounded or missing in Gaza

Monday, 05 February 2024 6:46 PM [ Last Update: Monday, 05 February 2024 6:50 PM ]

A displaced Palestinian child sits behind barbed wire on a dune overlooking a makeshift camp on the Egyptian border, west of Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip, January 14, 2024. (Photo by AFP)

The United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees says nearly 100,000 Palestinians have been either killed, wounded, or missing since Israel launched its brutal war in the besieged Gaza Strip in early October.

UNRWA’s Commissioner-General Philippe Lazzarini said in a post on X, “In 4 months of war, around 100,000 people in Gaza were killed, injured or are currently missing.”

More than 80 percent of the 2.3 million people of Gaza have been displaced, most of them several times over, the UNRWA official said.

He called for “a different trajectory” than a ceasefire “for the sake of people in Gaza.”

The Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor earlier said around 90 percent of the population in Gaza has been displaced.

Separately, UNRWA said one of its food convoys has come under Israeli artillery fire. The agency said trucks were delivering aid to the starving Palestinians in northern Gaza.

UNRWA has said it cannot carry out its mission and provide humanitarian relief if safety conditions are not met.

“Safe and sustainable humanitarian access is urgently needed everywhere, including to the north of Gaza,” UNRWA said in a post on X.

#Gaza this morning a food convoy waiting to move into Northern Gaza was hit by Israeli naval gunfire - thankfully no one was injured@UNRWA pic.twitter.com/1kvShgX6MG
— Thomas White (@TomWhiteGaza) February 5, 2024

Palestinians in the Gaza Strip continue to grapple with death, destruction and displacement as Israel keeps the genocidal campaign going.

UNRWA has also shared footage of one of its health centers. “There is nothing left. This is an unprecedented level of destruction and forced displacement, taking place in front of our eyes.”

In north📍#GazaStrip, the scale of destruction and loss is staggering.

This footage shows one of our @UNRWA health centres. There is nothing left.

This is an unprecedented level of destruction and forced displacement, taking place in front of our eyes. pic.twitter.com/z1el0QfhEe
— UNRWA (@UNRWA) February 5, 2024

Over 110 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli shelling over the course of one day. The central city of Deir al-Balah and the southern city of Khan Younis, where most displaced civilians are sheltering, have been the focus of attacks.

The Amal and Nasser hospitals in Khan Younis are still under siege. Israeli drones fire on residents there.

Israel has killed nearly 27,500 people in Gaza, a considerably large number of them women and children, since October 7, 2023.

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