According to UN spokesman Stephane Dujarric, Israel's most recent evacuation orders for portions of Gaza City affect two hospitals, six medical facilities, two primary healthcare centres, and more than sixty schools that are providing shelter to displaced Palestinians.
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| Woman with her children sitting outside displacement tent in Deir el-Balah in the central Gaza Strip........ on July 8, 2024 |
According to Dujarric, humanitarian officials have reported that people who were previously displaced by earlier evacuation orders and fighting are being forced to flee again. The Associated Press news agency (AP) reports that staff and patients have left the hospitals located in and around the areas ordered evacuated by Israeli forces
The main humanitarian cargo route from the Karem Abu Salem crossing, which Israel refers to as the Kerem Shalom crossing, to Khan Younis city in the south of Gaza, and then on to Deir el-Balah in central Gaza is hindered, he added, by "active hostilities, damaged roads, access limitations, and the lack of public order and safety."
According to him, the outcome has been severe food shortages and lower food rations in central and southern Gaza...