United Nations: Israeli aggression on Gaza displaced 75 thousand

NEW YORK, May 20 (YPA) – The Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip have displaced more than 75,000 Palestinians, according to the spokesman for the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, Jens Lark.

Lark told Anadolu Agency that 47,000 Palestinians sought refuge in 58 schools run by the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA).

He added that 28,700 had sought refuge with their relatives in other Palestinian areas.

Since April 13, the situation in the Palestinian territories has exploded as a result of “brutal” attacks committed by Israeli police and settlers in the occupied Al-Quds, especially Al-Aqsa Mosque and “Sheikh Jarrah” neighborhood, in an attempt to evacuate 12 Palestinian homes and hand them over to settlers.

The situation became tenser on May 10, when Israel launched an aggression with fighter jets and artillery against the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, which resulted until Thursday morning in the killing of 230 people, including 64 children and 39 women, as well as more than 1,626 injured, according to the Ministry of Health.

In the West Bank, the number of martyrs reached about 27 Palestinians, including four children and a woman, and 5,164 wounded.

In the occupied Al-Quds, a young man was killed and 1,108 others were wounded, and two young men were martyred in the cities of Lod and Umm al-Fahm in the Palestinian territories occupied in 1948.

YPA