The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) announced that more than 415,000 displaced people in Gaza are now sheltering in its school buildings.
These schools, which have been turned into shelters, are run by this UN institution, and many of them have already been subjected to Israeli bombardment, which led to the martyrdom of hundreds of displaced people, in addition to many UNRWA management staff.
Most of them lived in Gaza City and the northern towns, and some of them resorted to school residence after the occupation demolished their homes, or because of its proximity to the border areas.
UNRWA Commissioner-General Philippe Lazzarini said the ongoing military operation in northern Gaza had displaced 130,000 people over the past seven weeks.
UNRWA’s 415,000 IDPs do not include hundreds of thousands of IDPs who live in other non-UNRWA schools and tented displacement camps, all of whom are estimated at 1.9 million out of 2.2 million Palestinians living in the Gaza Strip.
All of them suffer from the scourge of war, complain about the lack of food and lack of money, and at this time complain about the lack of winter clothes and blankets. Despite the bitter life of displacement, they are subjected to continuous targeting by the occupying forces.