Gaza war: UN hopes for new Western Erez aid crossing

[Pelican Press 0]

Gaza war: UN hopes for new Western Erez aid crossing

Part of the UN’s operations in Gaza throughout the war has been to survey displaced Palestinians who are on the move, and track those who say they do not have access to food and water.

Unrwa is currently tracking some 370,000 Palestinians in Gaza, Mr Anderson said.

Hundreds of thousands of Palestinians have heeded *******’s warnings to evacuate eastern Rafah and have begun their journey to what ******* has called an “expanded humanitarian zone”.

This includes al-Mawasi, a coastal area largely made up of sand dunes, and parts of Khan Younis, which only recently was the focus of *******’s operations in Gaza.

Mr Anderson said neither area had the infrastructure to support the masses seeking shelter.

In al-Mawasi, “everything people have access to, we have to truck in… which includes food, water, moving solid waste, so it’s very much a makeshift camp,” he said.

“People who are displacing to Khan Younis, it’s very similar – there was infrastructure there, but that is still recovering from the ******** operation that took place a few months ago.”

******* launched a military campaign in Gaza to ******** ****** in response to the group’s ******* on southern ******* on 7 October, during which about 1,200 people were ******* and 252 others were taken ********, according to ******** authorities.

More than 35,000 people have been ******* in Gaza since then, according to the territory’s ******-run health ministry.

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