The UN, on Monday, 16 September 2024 highlighted the impact of ongoing mass evacuation orders in the Gaza Strip by the Israeli occupation, saying that the orders now cover more than 85 percent of Gaza.
“As of 16 September, more than 55 evacuation orders remain in effect, covering more than 85 percent of Gaza. The latest evacuation order was issued in northern Gaza on Saturday,” spokesman, Stephane Dujarric, said during a news conference, citing Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA).
He added that “repeated displacements are also separating families,” Dujarric added it is also “eroding social protection systems, particularly for women and children.”
With Israeli-issued evacuation orders hindering the delivery of aid across Gaza, Dujarric said: “Between 1 and 15 September of the 94 planned humanitarian missions coordinated with the Israeli authorities for northern Gaza, only 37 – or 39 percent – were facilitated.”
“In southern Gaza, just over 50 percent of the 243 coordinated humanitarian movements were facilitated,” he said, adding that OCHA cannot access northern Gaza for 28 days.
He further stated that “aid convoys are being fired at or otherwise exposed to life-risking conditions, stopped and delayed for hours in combat zones.”
“People need to be protected, whether they move or whether they stay there,” he said, adding that there “needs to be humanitarian aid” reaching to those in need.
“What we’re seeing is that no place is safe in Gaza,” Dujarric said answering whether the UN perceives Israel’s ongoing evacuation orders as forced displacement,
He added, “We see it as giving people very little options in order to just stay alive and survive.”
He reiterated the call for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza.
Despite a UN Security Council resolution calling for an immediate ceasefire, Israel has continued its brutal offensive on the Gaza Strip since 7 October 2023.
The Israeli onslaught has displaced almost the entire population of the territory amid an ongoing blockade that has led to severe shortages of food, clean water, and medicine.
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