News Center- About 90% of the population of the Gaza Strip have been displaced at least once since October 7, 2023, according to the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA).

‘Nine in every 10 people in the Gaza Strip have been internally displaced at least once’

“About 1.9 million people are thought to be displaced in Gaza, said Andrea De Domenico, head of the UN’s OCHA agency in the Palestinian territories. “We estimate that nine in every 10 people in the Gaza Strip have been internally displaced at least once, if not up to 10 times, unfortunately, since October,” he told reporters on Wednesday.

“Before we were estimating 1.7 (million) but since that number, we had the operation in Rafah, and we had additional displacement from Rafah.”

Andrea De Domenico emphasized how the situation in the Gaza Strip is serious and said, “Behind these numbers, there are people … that have fears and grievances. And they probably had dreams and hopes; the less and less, I fear today, unfortunately. People who in the last nine months have been moved around like pawns in a board game.”