UN says displaced Gazans have ‘nowhere to go’ as war intensifies

The United Nation says Israel’s indiscriminate strikes on the Gaza Strip and incessant evacuation orders have left displaced Palestinians with “no safe place” to go.

The world body's humanitarian team leader stationed in Gaza reported a lack of space for displaced Palestinians, likening the situation to a “human chessboard,” as thousands of people have been displaced more than once.

“People were heading south with mattresses and all of their belongings in vans and in trucks and in cars in order to try and find somewhere safe,” Gemma Connell said during her visit to Deir al-Balah in central Gaza.

Connell noted that many are left without a clear refuge in Rafah due to the extreme congestion.

“There’s so little space left here in Rafah that people just don’t know where they will go, and it really feels like people being moved around a human chessboard because there’s an evacuation order somewhere.”

“People flee that area into another area. But they’re not safe there,” she said.

The UN official added that Israeli strikes spared no areas in the besieged strip, with strikes hitting even those places which are not under “an evacuation order”, referring to the tragic death of a nine-year-old boy named Ahmed in A-Aqsa Hospital in Deir al-Balah, which was a supposed safe area.

“He was not in an area under an evacuation order,” Connell said, adding “He was in an area that was supposed to be safe. There is no safe place in Gaza.”

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