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Gaza Strip famine. The population of the Gaza Strip is at high risk of famine as a result of Israeli airstrikes during the Israel–Hamas war and an Israeli blockade, including of basic essentials and humanitarian aid. [5][6][7] Airstrikes have destroyed food infrastructure, such as bakeries, mills, and food stores, and there is a widespread ...
As of August 25, 2024, the United Nations estimated that most of Gaza's 2.2 million people were confined to a humanitarian area of roughly 15 square miles, which causes crowded conditions and a critical lack of basic services, like clean water, and diseases spreading widely across the population, such as Hepatitis C.
According to the U.N. most of Gaza's 2.2 million people are now confined to an area of roughly 15 square miles — about two-thirds the size of Manhattan. U.S. S ecretary of State Antony Blinken ...
By December 2023, Save the Children reported that it is likely that about 893,000 children were internally displaced in Gaza, average of 12,000 children a day forced to flee their homes, with some having to evacuate multiple times. Of the about 1.9 million displaced people in southern Gaza children make up almost 50% of the evacuees. [145]
May 14, 2024 at 6:33 PM. More than half a million Palestinians have been displaced in recent days by escalating Israeli military operations in Rafah and northern Gaza, the United Nations says ...
Gaza floating pier. The Gaza floating pier was a floating dock facility created by the U.S. military after being proposed immediately before U.S. President Biden's 2024 State of the Union Address on March 7, 2024. It was in use between May and July 2024. It was constructed by U.S. military forces based on ships offshore of the Gaza Strip, then ...
September 20, 2024 at 11:36 AM. By Nidal al-Mughrabi. CAIRO (Reuters) -Israeli forces killed at least 27 Palestinians in tank and air strikes on north and central areas of the Gaza Strip on Friday ...
Gaza is currently undergoing a severe humanitarian crisis. [163] By 13 November 2023, one out of every 200 people in Gaza were killed, becoming one out of every 100 by January 2024. [164] [165] As of 21 December 2023, according to the Gaza Health Ministry, at least 20,000 Palestinians, including over 8,000 children, have been killed. [166]