The United Nations has issued a renewed warning about the deteriorating conditions in Gaza, stressing that the besieged territory is suffering from a severe lack of shelter and livelihood opportunities due to ongoing Israeli attacks.
In a statement published Wednesday on its official website, the UN documented a series of Israeli violations against civilians in Gaza since Sunday, including repeated strikes on school buildings sheltering displaced families.
“Many families who had taken refuge in schools bombed by Israel have returned to the northern Gaza Strip, largely because they have nowhere else to go,” the UN said, highlighting the near-total absence of alternative housing and means of survival.
According to the statement, five school buildings sheltering displaced civilians in northern Gaza were bombed by the Israeli occupation forces (IOF) in just the past 48 hours, resulting in deaths and injuries.
The IOF continues to issue frequent evacuation orders across Gaza under the pretext of rocket fire, often followed within minutes by deadly airstrikes—sometimes even before residents can flee.
These tactics have intensified recently under the latest phase of the Israeli military operation, dubbed “Gideon’s Chariots,” which Israeli officials claim is aimed at defeating Hamas and advancing their forced displacement plan.
As a result, the IOF now controls roughly 77% of the Gaza Strip. Most residents of Gaza City’s eastern and central areas have been ordered to evacuate westward, then south toward the Al-Mawasi zone—already overcrowded and lacking basic infrastructure.
Over the past several months, dozens of such evacuation orders have forced mass displacement, leaving Palestinians crammed into less than 18% of the territory, according to United Nations reports.
UN spokesperson Stéphane Dujarric said that Israeli operations have “intensified” following Sunday’s evacuation orders, displacing at least 1,500 families from both the northern Gaza Strip and eastern Gaza governorate.
He warned of “dwindling humanitarian assistance and basic services, which increasingly deprive Gaza’s population of the means to survive.”
Dujarric stressed that the current conditions are “an alarm bell that requires urgent action to open all crossings and facilitate humanitarian operations, including the delivery of essential life-saving supplies.”
Since October 7, 2023, “Israel”—with direct support from the United States—has been committing genocide in the Gaza Strip. This campaign has included mass killing, starvation, displacement, and systematic destruction, in open defiance of repeated international appeals and legally binding orders from the International Court of Justice.
To date, the genocide has left approximately 191,000 Palestinians martyred or wounded—most of them women and children—and more than 11,000 remain missing. Hundreds of thousands have been displaced.
Source: Palestinian Information Center
