A Week Of Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, A Million People In Gaza Forced To Evacuate

People in Rafah City in the southern Gaza Strip on Thursday (12/10/2023) helped rescue victims of a series of Israeli airstrikes. (ANTARA/Khaled Omar/Xinhua)

"At least one million people in Gaza were forced to flee their homes within a week," UNRWA (BP Jobs and Recovery Agency for Palestinian Refugees in the Near East) said on Sunday, October 15 evening.

"At least in a week, one million people were forced to flee. Residents continued to flock to the southern region," UNRWA said, adding that "there was no safe place in Gaza".

At least 2,670 Palestinians have been killed and more than 9,600 others injured in Israeli attacks on the region's pockets since October 7, according to the Palestinian Ministry of Health.

In a statement by Palestinian Ministry of Health officials on Sunday, the need for blood donations in the Gaza Strip was "very urgent".

"The Ministry of Health asked the public to immediately donate their blood to Shifa Hospital, all hospitals in the Gaza Strip, and branches of the Blood Bank Association," the statement said, quoted by ANTRA, Monday, October 16.

The statement comes amid Israeli bombings in Gaza, in which hospitals struggle to save injured victims, while supplies of water and electricity are cut off.

The Gaza Strip, which is home to 2.2 million people, has been blockaded since 2006.