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/ Today, Sunday, the residents of the Gaza Strip complete 100 days of continuous military bombardment and a ground attack that has so far killed more than 23,000 Palestinians, or nearly 1 percent of the Strip’s population of 2.3 million people.
The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) says that water and food have become one of the tools of war that are used in the Gaza Strip.
This came in a blog post published by the agency on its official page on the “X” website, in which it indicated that the Gaza crisis is a human-made humanitarian disaster, noting that the Gaza Strip completes (today, Sunday) 100 days of the disaster that made the Palestinians face death, destruction, and displacement.
The agency indicated that the war, which entered its fourth month, caused the displacement of about 90 percent of the Gaza Strip’s population, including 1.4 million people inside UNRWA headquarters.
The agency also stated in a statement, (as the 100th day passed), that the ongoing bombardment across the Gaza Strip has contributed to the mass exodus of a community in constant flux, as they continue to be uprooted and forced to leave places overnight, only to move to equally unsafe places. . This was the largest displacement of the Palestinian people since 1948.
She continued, “The war has affected more than two million people, that is, the entire population of Gaza, and many of them will suffer for life, physically and psychologically, and the vast majority, including children, suffer from severe trauma.”
Overcrowded and unsanitary UNRWA shelters are now home to more than 1.4 million people, and they lack everything from food to hygiene to privacy. People live in inhumane conditions, where diseases are spreading, including among children, as well as rapidly approaching… Famine, according to the agency.
The UN agency noted that “the plight of children in Gaza is particularly tragic, and an entire generation of children has suffered from trauma and will need years to recover. Thousands have been killed, maimed and orphaned, and hundreds of thousands have been deprived of education, as their future is in danger, with far-reaching consequences.” term and long term.
The Israeli army has continued military operations against the Gaza Strip since October 7, when the Hamas movement that controls the Strip announced the start of Operation “Al-Aqsa Flood,” where thousands of rockets were fired from Gaza at Israel and its forces stormed Israeli towns adjacent to the Strip. This caused the death of about 1,200 Israelis, in addition to the capture of about 250 others.
The battles included a truce that lasted for 7 days, which was reached with Egyptian, Qatari, and American mediation, during which prisoners of women and children were exchanged and agreed upon amounts of aid were brought into the Gaza Strip, before military operations were renewed on the first of this December.
The Israeli bombing and ground operations in the Gaza Strip since the 7th of last October, until the 13th of this January (the 99th day of the war on Gaza), resulted in the deaths of more than 23,700 people and about 60,000 wounded, in addition to About 7,000 are missing, according to the Palestinian Wafa News Agency.