New York (UNA/WAFA) - The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) said that 1.9 million people in the Gaza Strip are living without shelter, and it is likely that reconstruction will take years following the genocide committed by the Israeli occupation authorities.
The UN agency added in a statement on Friday that at least 1.9 million people were displaced in Gaza due to the war, and many of them were forced to live in temporary shelters, such as those in the Al-Mawasi area, southwest of the Gaza Strip.
She stated that most of the houses were either completely destroyed or became uninhabitable, and explained that rebuilding the infrastructure, returning to normal life, and addressing the shock in the sector will take years.
The UN agency also expressed its “concern over the dire humanitarian situation in Gaza, especially in the northern part of the Strip.”".
The organization also noted that “as soon as the ceasefire went into effect, UNRWA teams worked non-stop to begin distributing food aid in northern Gaza.”".
She pointed out that hundreds of thousands of Palestinians living among the rubble left by months of intense Israeli bombardment are in “urgent need of life-saving assistance.”".
UNRWA called for the necessity of continuing its work to provide humanitarian aid of this magnitude.
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