Half A Million Palestinians Trapped In An Area Of Eight Square Kilometers

JAKARTA - The United Nations Agency for Assistance and Work for Palestinian Refugees (UNRWA) said about half a million Palestinians are still trapped in Gaza City, in an area of no more than eight square kilometers.

Meanwhile, 70,000 Palestinians are crammed into every square kilometer in the southern region of the Gaza Strip which Israel is threatening to evacuate civilians.

UNRWA spokesman Adnan Abu Hasna said in a press statement published by the UN agency on the X account "in Gaza City, about half a million Palestinians are still trapped in an area of no more than eight square kilometers," quoted from WAFA September 30.

Regarding the area in the southern Gaza Strip that Israel threatened to evacuate Palestinians, Abu Hasna said, "About 70,000 people will be crammed into each square kilometer, without room to set up a single tent, causing tens of thousands of families to lose their homes on the streets."

"The fields have spread, causing refugees from Gaza City to the central and southern parts of the Gaza Strip," Abu Hasna explained.

"The urgent need to immediately carry out a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip and for humanitarian aid to be allowed in," he said.

On August 22, the Global Integrated Food Safety Phase Classification Initiative (IPC) announced in its report, "flavor has taken place in Gaza City," and predicts that hunger will "spread to the cities of Deir al-Balah and Khan Yunis by the end of September."