UNRWA official: There is not room for a single tent in southern Gaza
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UNRWA Media Advisor Adnan Abu Hasna confirmed that “there is no room for a single tent in the southern Gaza Strip,” in light of the ongoing forced displacement campaigns imposed by the Israeli occupation on more than two million people in the Gaza Strip, forcing them to flee to the southern part of the Strip.
Abu Hasna told Al Jazeera that the occupation’s call for Gaza City residents to seek refuge in the south, which is collapsing health and living conditions, is part of its central plan to eliminate Gazans either through displacement or extermination.
Regarding the Al-Mawasi area, to which the occupation has called on Gaza residents to flee, describing it as a “humanitarian zone,” the UNRWA spokesperson explained that the occupation is making false promises in the media that it will ensure a dignified life by building a humanitarian city and hospitals in the south, while simultaneously conducting bombing campaigns against residential towers in the western Gaza Strip, disregarding the humanitarian conditions resulting from this widespread destruction.
Abu Hasna stressed that the Mawasi area, which the occupation described as a “humanitarian zone,” is not qualified to receive approximately 700,000 new displaced persons, in addition to the thousands already present. This area extends only 1.5 kilometers wide and approximately 12 kilometers long, amid threats of famine, a lack of basic necessities, and the collapse of infrastructure and the health sector.
According to the media advisor, Israel has destroyed approximately 70% of historic Gaza City, which competes to be the oldest city in the world in ancient history. He added that Israel ultimately aims to push the entire population of the Strip, which numbers more than two million, into an area of only 40 kilometers in southern Gaza, amid the collapse of infrastructure.
Regarding the consequences of the ongoing displacement on the humanitarian situation in the Strip, Abu Hasna said that Israel has crushed life in the Gaza Strip, making it “an uninhabitable place,” given the collapse of all basic necessities of life, including health, education, and other services.
