The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) said on Friday that Palestinians in the Gaza Strip “remain trapped in an endless nightmare of death and destruction.”
The agency noted, in a post on the “X” platform, that fear has spread once again among Palestinian families in the Gaza Strip, following orders from the Israeli army to evacuate some areas in Al-Mawasi.
It indicated that the evacuation orders included areas that Israel claimed were a “humanitarian zone” in Gaza, stressing that Palestinians in Gaza “remain in an endless nightmare of death and destruction on an unbelievable scale.”
On Friday morning, the Israeli forces reduced the “humanitarian zone” in the cities of Khan Yunis and Deir al-Balah, where it ordered residents of several areas to evacuate in preparation for carrying out attacks, as hundreds of Palestinians were displaced.
In less than a fifth of the Gaza Strip, more than 1.7 million displaced Palestinians live in the Al-Mawasi area and its surroundings (west), which lacks the most necessities of life as a result of the ongoing Israeli war, according to the international humanitarian aid organisation “Oxfam”.
This morning, 4 Palestinians, including 3 children, were killed on Friday in a bombing that targeted a displacement tent in the Al-Mawasi area.
It is not the first time that the Israeli occupation fores has targeted displacement camps in the Al-Mawasi area, which it has classified as “expanded humanitarian areas”, which are considered safe according to its previous descriptions, as it has previously targeted them several times, leaving hundreds of Palestinians dead and wounded.
Al-Mawasi is a sandy area along the coastline, extending from the southwest of the city of Deir al-Balah in the center of the Strip, passing through the west of Khan Yunis to the west of Rafah (south), and the occupation has reduced these areas repeatedly during the war.
The area is largely open and not residential, and lacks infrastructure, sewage networks, electricity lines, communications networks and the Internet, and most of its land is divided into agricultural or sandy greenhouses.
In this small geographical area, the displaced live in a tragic situation and suffer from a severe shortage of basic resources, such as water, sanitation, medical care and food.
Since October 7, 2023, the Israeli occupation forces have continued a war of genocide on the Gaza Strip, which has led to a catastrophic deterioration of the humanitarian and health conditions, due to the continuous bombing and the tight siege that prevents the arrival of basic supplies of food, water, medicine and electricity.
