Palestinian children leave an area in east Khan Younis after the Israeli army issued a new #evacuation order for parts of the city and Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip, on July 1, 2024 [Bashar Taleb/AFP]
“We came from the eastern area then we moved to the European hospital, then we went to Rafah, then we came back to Bani Suheila, then we returned to Nasser hospital and now we just went up the Somood camp,’ Al-Bairam said of his search to find safety for his family from Israeli attacks.
“It is tiring, tiring, tiring. This time we did not take anything with us. There is no time to carry anything.”
A Palestinian man holds his children as he walks next to buildings destroyed in an Israeli strike in Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip. REUTERS/Mohammed Salem
People walk through contaminated water and buildings destroyed by Israeli strikes in Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip on Sunday [Mohammed Salem/Reuters]
Palestinians travel in a donkey-drawn cart as they flee their homes following an Israeli military operation in #Shejaiya, in Gaza City. REUTERS/Dawoud Abu Alkas
A displaced Palestinian woman feeds her son milk in a school classroom where she is sheltering in Khan Younis, southern Gaza, on June 26 [Mohammed Salem/Reuters]
At the end of last year, 117.3 million people were displaced globally, UNHCR said in its annual report, with the UN’s agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) calculating that between October and December 2023, up to 1.7 million Palestinians – more than 75 percent of the population in Gaza – were displaced by Israel’s war on the territory, with people forced to flee multiple times.
Children ride with their belongings on a donkey-drawn cart with other people fleeing from the eastern parts of Deir el-Balah towards central Gaza [Eyad Baba/AFP]