New York (UNI/WAFA) - Save the Children International said that Khan Yunis, the second largest city in the Gaza Strip, which was home to more than 200 people before the Israeli aggression, has now become a “ghost town.”".
The organization added, in a press release today, Monday, following an assessment mission’s visit to the area on April 25, that every building the mission members saw was “either severely damaged or rubble on the ground,” with “some people returning to protect what remained of their property and belongings.”
The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs and UNRWA observed the same scenes of mass destruction during a separate visit to Gaza City..
According to an interim assessment conducted by the World Bank, more than 60% of residential buildings and nearly 80% of commercial facilities were damaged or destroyed in Gaza between October 2023 and January 2024, with 80% of the total damage concentrated in the Gaza and North Gaza governorates. And Khan Yunus.
Save the Children International indicated that it observed many children who were walking “alone” in the destroyed streets, and in dangerous proximity to destroyed or semi-destroyed buildings, as many of them were carrying heavy containers, potentially filled with water..
The Israeli occupation forces have continued their aggression against the Gaza Strip, by land, sea and air, since the seventh of last October, which led to the death of 34488 citizens and the injury of 77643 others, while thousands of victims remain under the rubble and on the roads, and ambulance and rescue crews are unable to reach them..
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