90 percent of Gaza’s population displaced: UN official

Geneva (Switzerland). United Nations officials have confirmed that 90 residents of the Gaza Strip have been displaced at least once since the nine-month Israeli offensive began.
Andrea De Domenico, head of the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs in the Occupied Palestinian Territories (OCHA), told a press conference that the population of Gaza is estimated at 2.1 million.

At the moment, nine out of every ten people in the Gaza Strip have been internally displaced at least once, he said.

He informed that since October 2023, 37,000 people have lost their lives. According to him, 1.1 million citizens have left the Gaza Strip and 300,000 to 350,000 people in northern Gaza are still unable to move to the south.

United Nations officials have said there is no need to add to the number of displaced people displaced in the past two days following an order to evacuate Israeli-occupied areas in Khan Yunis, south of the Gaza Strip. Almost all of them have been counted as displaced.

The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Middle East (UNRWA) estimates that about 250,000 Palestinians will be forced to flee again from Khan Yunus.