Over 75,000 Palestinians displaced in southwest Gaza in past few days: UN official

Altogether, 75,638 Palestinians have been forced out of southwest Gaza in the last few days only, still more, the commissioner-general of the UN Agency for Palestinian Refugees (UNRWA) Philippe Lazzarini reported. Lazzarini described himself as highly concerned about such a movement, saying that many people are forced to flee their homes with nothing more than their children and bags. 

 “Palestinian civilians have been trapped in wars and conflicts one too many times,” Lazzarini said on the social media website X. Most of the affected people are now homeless, resulting in seeking shelter in camps where the facilities are congested with families who are also homeless. 

 While analyzing the situation, Lazzarini brought attention to the fact that people in Gaza are almost confined. They have nowhere to run. The new orders, given late Saturday and early Sunday, applied to Khan Younis, a southern Gaza city, including a ‘humanitarian protected zone’. This is the third time in roughly a week that Israel has widened an evacuation-ordered area in Khan Younis, where a military campaign began on Friday. 

 While mediators, such as Egypt, the US, and Qatar, still insist on a truce and a hostage exchange, Israel fans up its bombardment of Gaza. The hostilities that started after the attack by a local Palestinian group, Hamas, in October have killed 39,798. 

 Now, over a year into the fighting, large swathes of Gaza have been flattened, and civilians are less than two months away from running out of food and water and have lacked basic medical care. The ICJ has also accused the state of carrying out genocide and required it to cease its military action in Rafah, a southern city where more than a million Palestinians had fled before the area was attacked on May 6. 

 The humanitarian suffering in Gaza remains, if anything, more acute than ever. There is no clear exit strategy to the aggression and destruction that have led to the displacement of tens of thousands of people and left hundreds of thousands in urgent need of help. 

Current conditions in Gaza state have evoked extensive condemnation around the world, non-governmental organizations for human rights, political leaders, and ambassadors demand to stop the battles. Continued shelling and siege have not only brought a loss of lives but have washed an avoidable humanitarian calamity of unimaginable proportion. Independent development workers are cautioning, saying that failure to act now will cause the situation to worsen and could lead to the breakdown of education, health and any crucial services and structures in the area. Day by day, the viewer follows the course of the conflict, witnessing the cruelty of the regular conditioned people’s lives for the inhabitants of Gaza, who become victims of constant shelling and, consequently, forced displacement.