600,000 Palestinians displaced due to Israeli attacks on besieged Gaza Strip: UNRWA

GAZA, Oct. 25 (YPA) – About 600,000 Palestinians people have been displaced from their homes in the besieged Gaza Strip due to the ongoing Israeli attacks, the United Nations Relief and Works Organization for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) said in a report on Tuesday.

The report added that the displaced Palestinians were accommodated through 150 UNRWA shelters, noting that 10,000 people have been displaced in the last 24 hours.

It stated that 54 aid trucks have arrived in Gaza since October 21, carrying food, water and medicines.

This came as the spokesman for the Ministry of Health in Gaza told Al Jazeera network that hospitals in the Strip are open but cannot provide any services due to the exhaustion of their capabilities.

The spokesman explained that “there is no hospital in Gaza capable of providing health services to those wounded by the aggression,” calling for the immediate entry of medical aid and fuel.

He pointed out that 7,000 sick and wounded people in the Gaza Strip’s hospitals are at risk of death, adding that Gaza Strip’s hospitals have turned into housing to shelter the displaced.

For the 18th straight day, the Israeli occupation army launched intense air strikes on Gaza, resulting in the death of 5,791 Palestinians, including 2,360 children, 1,292 women, and 295 elderly people, and the injury of 16,297 people, according to the Ministry of Health in the Gaza Strip.

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