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PALESTINE

Wed 29 Jan 2025 7:45 pm - Jerusalem Time

Gaza government calls for temporary housing for a quarter of a million families

The government media office in Gaza called on Wednesday on mediators between the Palestinian factions and Israel to pressure the latter to bring in tents and caravans to house more than a quarter of a million families displaced by the genocide and whose homes were destroyed over the course of more than 15 months.


In its statement, the office stressed the need for the parties and mediators (Egypt, Qatar and Washington) to pressure Israel to implement its pledges and accelerate the implementation of the "humanitarian protocol" to ensure the entry of relief and shelter materials without restrictions.


He added: "Opening the crossings completely has become an urgent necessity to bring in tents and caravans to house more than a quarter of a million Palestinian families displaced by the occupation after the systematic destruction of the housing sector."


On Wednesday, the governor of North Sinai, Khaled Megawer, said that the Rafah border crossing with the Gaza Strip will open within days, with a European-Palestinian presence.


In his statements, Mujawar explained that he inspected "the Egyptian side of the Rafah crossing, which is located within the borders of the North Sinai border governorate, and it has been 100 percent ready for some time, and there is no problem."


The government media official stressed the urgent need to bring in civil defense vehicles and equipment to retrieve the bodies of Palestinian dead from under the rubble and destroyed homes.


He stressed the need to introduce infrastructure maintenance requirements, such as the power station and water networks, to ensure the continuity of basic services.


He pointed out that "the occupation's obstruction of these needs exacerbates the humanitarian crisis and puts the lives of millions at risk."


He added that "the humanitarian crisis is worsening with the return of half a million displaced persons from the south and center to Gaza and the north during the past 72 hours."


Since May 24th until the ceasefire, very little aid entered the Gaza Strip through the Kerem Shalom crossing, after the Israeli army took control of the Rafah crossing (south), and destroyed and burned parts of it as part of an operation it began in the city on the 7th of the same month.


The displaced Palestinians returning to the Gaza and North Governorates are spending their lives in tragic conditions, with some sleeping in the open, while others have been forced to take refuge in the remains of destroyed mosques and schools.


On Monday, tens of thousands of displaced people began returning to the Gaza and North governorates, passing through the Netzarim checkpoint via Rashid coastal streets for pedestrians, and Salah al-Din streets for vehicles, after undergoing a security inspection.


For the third day, the flow of displaced Palestinians continues to return to Gaza and the north, despite the great extent of the destruction that has befallen them, which the government media office estimated at more than 90 percent.


This step came within the framework of the ceasefire agreement in the Gaza Strip that was reached through the mediation of the United States, Egypt and Qatar, and entered into force on January 19.


The first phase of the agreement will last for 42 days, during which negotiations will take place to begin a second and third phase, leading to an end to the war of extermination.



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