UN: Around 90% of Gaza Strip population displaced since start of war

The UN announced today that a significant number of residents had been internally displaced in the Gaza Strip – since the resumption of fighting – more than three weeks ago.

"It is estimated that around 400,000 residents have been displaced in Gaza following the breakdown of the ceasefire," the UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) said today in a post on X.

More than 2 million people live in the densely populated coastal territory. The Israeli military has regularly called on residents to leave areas where it has taken action against the Islamist group Hamas - most recently in Rafah.

"Fighting has continued - meanwhile an Israeli airstrike on a house in Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip - caused the deaths of 10 members of the same family," the Palestinian news agency WAFA said.

"Several others were injured," the statement said. There were no further details on the casualties initially. The Israeli military said it was reviewing the report.

WAFA also reported that two people were killed and several others were wounded in a separate Israeli attack on a group of individuals in Beit Lahia, in the northern Gaza Strip.

According to the UN, about 90% of the population of the Gaza Strip has been displaced since the war began a year and a half ago. During a two-month ceasefire earlier this year, many internally displaced people returned to their cities.

Israel resumed massive attacks in mid-March after no agreement was reached with Hamas on the terms for extending the ceasefire.

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