Anjali Sharma
GG News Bureau
UNITED NATIONS, 10th Nov. UN Relief Works Agency on Thursday said that since the Israel Defense Forces created periodic evacuation “corridors” in early November at least 40,000 people have walked from northern Gaza to southern Gaza.
IDF has called on civilians to move south of Wadi Gaza a waterway bisecting the center of the enclave — as it intensifies its assault on Hamas in Gaza City and northern Gaza.
UNRWA said that UN monitors and NGOs are providing water and biscuits to evacuees just south of the Wadi Gaza.
The Israeli military opened the “corridor” along the main traffic artery, Salah Ad Deen Road, for residents to leave the north between 10 a.m. and 2 p.m., which was then extended by an hour, as people were still moving southwards, UNrwa stated.
Some 50,000 people evacuated during the day, the largest number since the corridor opened, bring the estimated figure since November 5 to 72,000.
Most evacuees move on foot and those who use vehicles leave them at the southern edge of Gaza city at the Al Kuwaiti roundabout.
According to UNWRA the evacuees walk 4-5 km down the corridor, with an estimated distance of up to 20 km for those traveling farthest.
The agency said that 1.5 million people in Gaza have been internally displaced since the fight broke out between Israel and the militant group Hamas.
It added 725,000 are sheltering in 149 UNRWA facilities; 122,000 in hospitals, churches and public buildings; 131,134 in 94 non-UNRWA schools, and the remainder with host families.
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