PALESTINE
Tue 07 Nov 2023 11:05 am - Jerusalem Time
70% of Gaza's population were forcibly displaced from their homes
The government media office in the Gaza Strip announced, at dawn on Tuesday, that 70% of the Strip’s population has been forcibly displaced from their homes.
The office said in a press release entitled “Scary Humanitarian Figures and Statistics” that 70% of the population of the Gaza Strip (2.3 million people) have been forcibly displaced from their homes due to intense Israeli bombing and raids.
It confirmed that the Gaza Strip was bombed with a thousand tons of explosives, at an average of 82 tons per square kilometer, and the Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Observatory stated - earlier - that the share of explosives per capita as a result of the ongoing Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip exceeds 10 kilograms.
The government office added that about 2% of the total population of the Gaza Strip became direct victims of this aggression, either martyrs or wounded, with an average of:
Injured every minute.
15 martyrs every hour.
6 child martyrs every hour.
5 female martyrs every hour.
It pointed out that:
- Half of the Gaza Strip's hospitals and 62% of primary care centers are out of service.
- 50% of the residential units were damaged by the bombing, and 10% were completely demolished.
- 33% of schools were damaged by the bombing and 9% were out of service.
- 14% of the mosques in the Gaza Strip were damaged and 5% were completely demolished.
Since the start of Operation Al-Aqsa Flood on October 7, the Israeli occupation army has launched a devastating war on Gaza, resulting in the martyrdom of more than 10,022 Palestinians, including 4,104 children and 2,641 women, and wounding more than 25,000 others, and 160 Palestinians were martyred. 2,150 were arrested in the West Bank, according to official Palestinian sources.
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70% of Gaza's population were forcibly displaced from their homes