The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Refugees (UNRWA) announced today, Tuesday, that more than 187,518 people in the Gaza Strip have been displaced from their homes, as a result of the occupation’s aggression that has continued for four days, and the number is likely to rise.

According to UNRWA's latest report on the situation in the Gaza Strip, 137,500 displaced people reside in 83 UNRWA schools in all areas of the Gaza Strip, while about 3,000 Palestinians in Gaza are still displaced in the wake of the previous escalation.

The report indicated an increasing number of displaced people seeking shelter in UNRWA schools, with the continuation of intense Israeli air strikes.

It pointed out the difficult conditions in some shelters that suffer from overcrowding and the limited availability of potable water, noting that all schools are not designated as emergency shelters, and therefore they are not prepared to receive internally displaced people.

UNRWA confirmed that every effort is being made to provide basic services to the internally displaced, and that, in coordination with the World Food Program, it distributed bread to the displaced in shelters.

It explained that 18 UNRWA facilities have been damaged since October 7, in addition to the fact that the UNRWA office in the Gaza region, where local and international employees are located, was exposed to collateral damage as a result of air strikes in the Al-Rimal area in central Gaza City.

It pointed out that UNRWA schools throughout the Gaza Strip remain closed.