A rescuer and people stand near a burnt car following an Israeli strike in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip, on October 15, 2023. (Photo by Said Khatib / AFP)
Amman: The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) stressed Sunday that the Israeli raids on the Gaza Strip revealed an "unprecedented humanitarian catastrophe."
In remarks, UNRWA Commissioner-General Philippe Lazzarini said, "There is not one drop of water, not one grain of wheat, not a liter of fuel that has been allowed into the Gaza Strip for the last eight days."
"In fact, an unprecedented humanitarian catastrophe is unfolding under our eyes," he added.
UNRWA has warned that more than two million people in the Gaza Strip face the risk of running out of water, which has become a threat to their lives, stressing that its shelters in Gaza and the northern Strip are no longer safe.
Director of Communications of UNRWA Juliette Touma said Sunday that an estimated one million people were displaced in the first seven days of the escalation in Gaza.
She explained that this number is likely to increase as residents continue to leave their homes for fear of the ongoing Israeli bombing since October 7.
Today, the Palestinian Ministry of Health announced that the death toll from the ongoing Israeli occupation aggression against the Gaza Strip and the occupied West Bank since October 7 has risen to 2,506 martyrs and about 10,400 wounded.
In a statement, the ministry stated the number of martyrs in the Gaza Strip rose to 2,450 martyrs, the majority of whom were children and women, while the number of wounded reached 9,200.
It added that the number of martyrs in the West Bank rose to 56, after a child was shot dead by occupation bullets during confrontations in Beita town in southern Nablus, while the number of wounded rose to more than 1,200.
