The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) announced on Saturday that 1.9 million people have been forcibly displaced repeatedly in the Gaza Strip.
Marking the Day of the Palestinian Child on April 5, the UN agency wrote on X on Saturday that since the onset of the war in Gaza, about 1.9 million people, including thousands of children, have been forcibly displaced, many have been displaced repeatedly, amid ongoing bombardment, fear and loss.
The UN agency pointed out that the collapse of Gaza ceasefire caused another wave of forced displacement involving more than 142,000 people who were internally displaced between March 18 and 23, stressing the urgent need for an immediate ceasefire.
On March 18, the Israeli occupation army reneged on the ceasefire and prisoner exchange agreement that came into force on January 19, and resumed its genocidal war on the devastated Gaza Strip.
Since the occupation began its genocidal war on Gaza on October 7, 2023, Gaza’s children have faced catastrophic conditions, with Palestinian government reports stating that children and women constitute more than 60 percent of the total victims of the ongoing genocide.
During the months of the genocide, Israel killed 17,954 children in Gaza, according to a statement issued by the Palestinian Statistics Authority on the eve of Palestinian Children’s Day.
