Israel evacuation orders continue in Rafaha city on the southern tip of the Gaza Strip where many people displaced by Israel’s offensive against Hamas have been concentrated for six months, and some have already fled the city. 600,000 peoplehe pointed out this Friday United Nations.

“In general they moved to north And northwest, to the coast where they were ordered to go. Your journey is difficult because no safe routes and in Gaza, of course, there is no place free from danger,” Jens Laerke, a spokesman for the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, said at a press conference.

Laerke clarified that these figures were provided this week UN Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA), the main humanitarian actor still present in the sector.

Before the terrorist attacks of October 7, 2023 Rafah it was one Small town from all over 275,000 inhabitantsa figure that has increased sharply and reached 1.4 million gradual movement from north to south caused by Israeli military intervention.

Operation in A looparea about 2.2 million inhabitantsconcentrated in the first months in the northern half of the strip, to continue later in such southern areas as Ian Younisremaining Rafah How last refuge many Palestinians and key place for the import of humanitarian aid through the border crossing with Egypt located in this area.

Evacuation orders and movements in Rafah were accompanied by blocking this humanitarian aidand in this regard, the representative of the World Health Organization, Tarik Jasarevic, emphasized at the same press conference that sanitary supplies couldn’t get in in Gaza from May 6.

“The biggest problem now is fuelwhich powers objects where WHO. They are needed between 1.4 and 1.8 million liters per month to keep Gaza’s hospitals running, but currently only about 159,000 people enter through Rafah,” Jasarevic said.

The spokesman recalled that only 13 of Gaza’s 36 hospitals are still operational.

“Without fuel, generators cannot produce electricity, and this poses is at risk to the people served in intensive care units. “You can’t perform Caesarean sections on pregnant women, perform surgeries or keep some newborns alive,” he said.

According to WHO, in areas of Rafah that Israel ordered to evacuate, two hospitals and four sspotlights elementary.

At the same UN press conference, questions were again asked about recent changes in the death toll of the conflict in the Gaza Strip, after reports prepared by the coordination office showed a drop in the number of women and children killed.