Israel’s attack on the besieged Gaza Strip has displaced 600,000 Palestinians in the besieged enclave, the United Nations said on Sunday.
That number marks a dramatic escalation in the number displaced from Saturday, which the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs said stood at 400,000.
Half of the displaced people are sheltering at UNRWA designated emergency shelters, but the UN says that its hosting capacity in central and southern areas of the Gaza Strip is overstretched.
Due to lack of space, many displaced people are sleeping outdoors, including a “large number of already vulnerable people… children, the elderly, those requiring medical attention, the disabled, and pregnant women.”
Water, food and medicines are now severely limited and frustration and tensions amongst internally displaced persons due to the dire conditions are on the rise, the UN said.
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