Switzerland: The United Nations (UN) reports 86 percent of Gaza is under Israeli evacuation orders as 33 more Palestinians are killed amid ongoing attacks and displacement.
Following further orders from the Israeli army to evacuate, thousands of Palestinians left the central Gaza refugee camps of Bureij and Nuseirat on Monday.
According to Philippe Lazzarini, the director of UNRWA, the UN agency for Palestinian refugees, 86 percent of the besieged enclave is under Israeli military orders to evacuate.
Wearing black sunglasses, Kahder Baroud, a blind Palestinian man, said he got a call on Sunday from the Israeli army telling him to leave his home in Nuseirat.
“We are already struggling with our situation because my daughters and sons are also blind. … We live in fear, in frightening circumstances. We left home today [Monday], but we don’t know where we can go now,” he said.
According to Gaza officials, 33 Palestinians were murdered on Monday throughout the enclave, bringing the total number of dead since October to 39,363, along with over 90,000 injuries.
During the October 7 attacks in Israel, which were spearheaded by Hamas, an estimated 1,139 people were murdered and another 200 were captured.
The ministry stated that the scenario “poses a health threat to the residents of Gaza and neighbouring countries” in a Telegram statement.
The spread of the potentially fatal polio virus has also been verified by the World Health Organization (WHO), which found the virus in sewage samples. The virus might pollute the already limited sources of drinking water in the crowded Gaza Strip.
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