Anjali Sharma
GG News Bureau
UNITED NATIONS, 10th August. UN and humanitarian partners reported on Friday that 60,000 Palestinians have moved towards western Khan Younis in Gaza in the past 72 hours after 3 evacuation orders by Israeli this week.
The Israeli military ordered people to leave parts of central and eastern Khan Younis, located in the south of Gaza on Thursday, as two separate directives issued for parts of northern Gaza.
OCHA said the parts of northern and southern Gaza newly placed under evacuation orders encompass 43 square kilometres.
According to initial tracking by partners on the ground these areas include some 230 displacement sites more than three dozen water, sanitation and hygiene facilities and five functional health facilities, including the Indonesian Hospital.
OCHA said over 80 per cent of the Gaza Strip is assessed as have been placed under evacuation orders since the conflict began last October.
The entry of aid into Gaza remains challenging due access constraints, lack of public order and safety, high levels of insecurity and other factors.
The volume of aid that can be brought into Gaza through operational border crossings has decreased by more than half since early May, following the closure of the Rafah crossing with Egypt, OCHA stated.
It noted that in April, the daily average was 169 trucks, dropped to 80 trucks in June and July.
The decrease was steeper at the Kerem Shalom crossing with Israel, which saw a more than 80 per cent drop in aid cargo entries during the same three-month period, or from 127 trucks daily in April to fewer than two dozen a day in July.
According to the UN, 500 trucks entered Gaza daily, prior to the war.
OCHA said humanitarian assistance missions that require coordination with Israeli authorities continue to be denied and impeded.
It added that 24 of 67 planned missions to northern Gaza this month have been facilitated while the rest were denied, impeded or canceled due to security, logistical or operational reasons.
The situation in southern Gaza, where half of 100 planned missions were facilitated by Israeli, but the rest were denied, impeded or canceled, OCHA concluded.
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