The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) said on Wednesday that families in the Gaza Strip are facing "dire conditions" due to repeated displacement, reiterating the "urgent need for an immediate ceasefire."

The UN agency added in a post on the X platform: "In Deir al-Balah in the central Gaza Strip, and throughout the Gaza Strip, families continue to face dire conditions."

It explained that these families are being displaced repeatedly due to the continuous shelling, seeking shelter in overcrowded UNRWA schools and temporary tents, and struggling to access basic necessities.

It reiterated the "urgent need for an immediate ceasefire in the Gaza Strip, and to ensure unhindered access for humanitarian aid to meet growing needs."

The war of extermination waged by the occupation since October 7, 2023, has forced about two million of the Strip’s citizens, numbering about 2.3 million Palestinians, to flee in tragic conditions with a severe and deliberate shortage of food, water and medicine.

Famine has spread in most areas of the Gaza Strip as a result of the ongoing aggression, especially in the north, following the persistence of genocide and starvation to force citizens to migrate south.

The Israeli occupation forces continue their aggression on the Gaza Strip, by land, sea and air, since October 7, 2023, which resulted in the martyrdom of 44,502 citizens, the majority of whom are women and children, and the injury of 105,454 others, in an incomplete toll, as thousands of victims are still under the rubble and on the roads, and ambulance and rescue crews cannot reach them.