UNRWA: The occupation forces besiege half a million Palestinians within an area of ​​no more than 8 square kilometers in Gaza City

The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) revealed on Monday that the Israeli occupation is besieging nearly half a million Palestinians in Gaza City, in an area of ​​no more than eight square kilometers.

Adnan Abu Hasna, a spokesperson for the UN agency, said in a press statement: “In Gaza City, nearly half a million Palestinians are still trapped in an area of ​​no more than eight square kilometers.” He added that “approximately 70,000 people will be crowded into every square kilometer in the areas in the southern Gaza Strip, to which the occupation authorities are threatening Palestinians to flee.

This means there will be no room to erect a single tent, leaving tens of thousands of families homeless in the streets.”

On the other hand, the same spokesperson confirmed that “famine has spread with the displaced from Gaza City to the central and southern Gaza Strip,” stressing “the urgent need for an immediate ceasefire in the Gaza Strip and for humanitarian aid to be allowed in.”

On August 22, the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) initiative, with support from specialized UN agencies, announced in an official report that a famine had occurred in the Gaza Strip after rates of hunger and acute malnutrition exceeded international standards for Phase 5 of the classification, in light of the ongoing Israeli aggression and the blockade imposed on the Strip.