More than 100,000 people have fled the Palestinian city of Rafah, where the Israeli army threatens a major ground offensive, to take refuge in other areas of the Gaza Strip, UN officials said this Friday.
The Israeli army issued an evacuation order for the eastern area of Rafah on Monday, sparking concern in the international community, which fears an offensive in this highly populated town in the southern Gaza Strip, where the UN estimates that there were 1 .4 million people, mostly displaced.
The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) estimated that more than 100,000 people have already left Rafah and the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) projected this figure at more than 110,000.
OCHA director for Gaza, Georgios Petropoulos, stated that the situation in this Palestinian territory reached a level of “unprecedented emergency.”
“About 30,000 people flee the city every day,” said Petropoulos, noting that “most of these people have already had to move five or six times” since the conflict between Israel and the Palestinian terrorist group Hamas began in October. which governs Gaza.
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