Over the past 24 hours, more than 50,000 Palestinians have marched from the north of the Gaza Strip to the south. through the only corridor allowed by Israeli authorities, thus the number of people forcibly evacuated since Israel divided the sector in two five days ago will grow to 72,000, according to the UN.

In its daily report, the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said that for the fifth day in a row, the Israeli army continued to issue orders to residents of the northern Gaza Strip, who still number in the hundreds of thousands. Let them go south the only possible way, Saladino Highway, the Strip’s main artery.

The numbers show that these evacuations are becoming more and more numerousfor from 5,000 in the first three days the flow tripled to 15,000 on Tuesday alone, and on Wednesday the number more than tripled again.

“The fighting and shelling on the road and in its environs continue. putting these evacuees at risk, and there is evidence of dead bodies on this road,” the daily report noted, pointing out that the north-south passage crossing the Gaza River remains open only from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. daily.

According to the UN, Most of the evacuees walk. they have to walk at least four or five kilometers through this dangerous area, and those arriving by vehicle are forced by Israeli authorities to leave them at the Kuwait roundabout in the southern part of Gaza City, the strip’s capital.

The report provides testimony from one of these evacuees, who He said he came south from Gaza City. with dozens of her relatives, including an aunt who was in a wheelchair.

“We got a vehicle that took us to the Al Kuwait roundabout and we had to walk for two hours. “I saw a lot of destruction along the way, tanks and soldiers located on the eastern side of the road, as well as corpses and body parts,” he said.

The Israeli army announced today opening a safe corridor Gaza civilians evacuate to the south of the Gaza Strip from 10:00 to 16:00 local time.

The Arab representative of the Israeli army, Avichai Adrai, noted that “the northern part of the Gaza Strip is considered a zone of brutal fighting and time to evacuate is running out“.

The report also confirmed poor situation of hospitals in the northern half of Gaza, where one of them, the Quds Force, had to paralyze surgical operations and other important activities due to lack of fuel, while surrounding areas were attacked.

Another hospital, Al Auda, the only one still offering maternity services in the north, warned that fuel supplies were needed to continue operating. They can sell out in 30 hours.

The United Nations also condemned the deaths of dozens of Palestinians in attack this Wednesday on a school in Gaza City where thousands of internally displaced persons lived.

The document, citing data from the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), recalls that in more than 30 days of fighting 37 reporters died among them were 32 Palestinians from Gaza, marking the profession’s deadliest month since the organization began collecting the data in 1992.

The number of internally displaced people in the Gaza Strip exceeded 1.5 million (more than two-thirds of a population of 2.3 million), of whom 725,000 are sheltering in UN agencies, 122,000 in hospitals, churches and other public buildings, 131,000 in non-UN affiliated schools, and the rest in families.

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Although Israel ordered the evacuation of Gaza’s civilian population from the south for security reasons,His troops attack from the air and ground even in the southern part of the enclave.where displaced people live in overcrowded conditions amid shortages of drinking water, food, medicine, electricity and fuel.

More than 10,500 Gazans were killed Since the war began on October 7, more than 25,000 have been wounded.

(according to information from EFE)