UNRWA: Our own shelters in Gaza are massively overcrowded

GAZA, Jan. 08 (YPA) – The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) said Sunday that its shelters in the Gaza Strip are “massively overcrowded.”

“Our own shelters in the area are massively overcrowded, we cannot take more people anymore,” Juliette Touma, communications director of the UN Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), told ABC News.

“Gaza doesn’t have civilian infrastructure to support such a huge influx of displaced people, many now sleeping on streets,” she added.

Israel has launched air and ground attacks on the Gaza Strip since a cross-border attack by Palestinian resistance group Hamas on Oct. 7.

At least 22,835 Palestinians have since been killed and 58,416 others injured, according to Gaza’s health authorities.

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