UNRWA: Israeli attacks on Rafah force over million people to flee

GAZA, June 03 (YPA) – Over one million people have been forcibly displaced from the city of Rafah city of the Gaza Strip as a result of the Israeli occupation’s attacks, the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) said on Monday.

The Israeli occupation issued orders for civilians to move to an “expanded humanitarian zone” about 20 kilometers away.

Many Palestinians, who have moved north and south in the Gaza Strip in the past few months, said they are vulnerable to Israeli attacks wherever they go.

UNRWA said that thousands of families have now resorted to living in damaged and destroyed buildings in the city of Khan Yunis, where the agency provides basic services despite “increasing challenges.”

Several Relief organizations reported that about a million Palestinians were living in the small city located on the southern tip of Gaza after fleeing Israeli attacks in other parts of the Strip.

Since early May, the Israeli army has carried out what it says is a limited operation in Rafah to root out Hamas fighters and dismantle the infrastructure used by the Gaza-run movement.

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