The United Nations announced today, Saturday, that more than 1,300 buildings in the Gaza Strip were destroyed, after a week of concentrated Israeli bombing of the Strip.
The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs announced that “5,544 housing units” in these buildings were destroyed, while about 3,750 other units were severely damaged to the point of making them uninhabitable, according to agencies.
OCHA said: “According to the Ministry of Public Works in Gaza, 1,324 residential and non-residential buildings, including 5,540 housing units, were destroyed, and another 3,743 housing units were damaged beyond repair and became uninhabitable.”
The office added that another 55,000 housing units were partially damaged.
The United Nations monitors the number of people displaced from their homes inside the Gaza Strip, with more than 423,000 displaced people recorded as of the end of Thursday.
OCHA stated that most people in the Gaza Strip now do not have access to safe drinking water, and have resorted to consuming salty water from agricultural wells, raising serious concerns about the spread of water-borne diseases.
On Friday, Israel gave about 1.1 million people in the northern Gaza Strip 24 hours to quickly evacuate the area and head to the south, before the start of an expected ground attack.
Israeli occupation warplanes continue to launch a series of raids on several areas in the Gaza Strip.
The occupation warplanes bombed a house in Deir al-Balah in the central Gaza Strip. Which led to its complete destruction and the injury of a number of citizens.
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- Agencies