Over 810,000 Flee Rafah amid Israeli Military Operations, UNRWA

At least 810,000 people have fled Rafah in just two weeks, UN humanitarian officials said Monday amid reports of ongoing Israeli military assaults in Gaza’s southern city and in the north of the besieged enclave.

“Every time families are displaced their lives are at serious risk. People are forced to leave everything behind looking for safety. But, there’s no safe zone,” the UN agency for Palestinian refugees, UNRWA, said in a post on X.

Accompanying the alert, images showed families with their belongings piled high on the back of cars and makeshift trailers; another photograph taken overlooking the coastline showed a mass of shelters for the displaced, all made out of simple sheeting and stretching all the way to the horizon.

According to the Gazan health authorities, at least 35,300 Gazans have been killed, mostly women and children, and more than 79,260 injured amid Israeli shelling .

The latest data from UNRWA’s online logistics platform indicated that the delivery of humanitarian aid has stopped almost entirely via the main entry points to Gaza – the Rafah crossing and Kerem Shalom in the south.