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UN: Rafah offensive displaces 20% of Gaza population in a week
The Israeli offensive in Rafah, in the south of the Gaza Strip, and the new attacks in the north of that Palestinian territory caused the displacement of 450,000 people in a week, 20% of the population, the UN said today.
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According to the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), this situation, combined with the new blockade on the entry of humanitarian aid, is rapidly increasing levels of malnutrition and disease.
The blockade on the entry of aid from abroad, following Israel's closure of the only two border crossings through which humanitarian convoys entered, has reversed the little progress that had been made in terms of nutrition, in a context of an alarming rate of malnutrition among children.
OCHA also warned of the fuel shortage resulting from this situation, which is seriously threatening the continuity of health services and the operation of water, sanitation and hygiene facilities.
Under these circumstances, the risk of epidemics is high among a weakened population.
Up until the beginning of this month, more than 415,700 cases of diarrhoeal disease and more than 61,000 cases of acute jaundice syndrome had already been recorded, according to the World Health Organization (WHO).
On 7 October last year, Israel declared war on the Gaza Strip in order to "eradicate" the Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas after it carried out an unprecedented attack on Israeli territory hours earlier, killing more than 1,170 people, most of them civilians.
The Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) -- in power in Gaza since 2007 and classified as a terrorist organisation by the United States, the European Union and Israel -- also took more than 250 hostages, 128 of whom remain in captivity and 36 have since died, according to the latest report from the Israeli army.
The war, which today entered its 221st day and continues to threaten to spread throughout the Middle East, has so far caused more than 35,000 deaths, 79,000 injuries and thousands of missing people presumed buried in the rubble, most of them civilians, according to updated figures from local authorities.
The conflict has also caused almost two million displaced persons, plunging the overcrowded and impoverished Palestinian enclave into a serious humanitarian crisis, with more than 1.1 million people in a "catastrophic hunger situation" that is claiming victims - "the highest number ever recorded" by the UN in food security studies worldwide.
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