Five months into the war, 80 percent of the homes in Gaza have been rendered uninhabitable, while 120,000 families are suffering from famine.
A displaced Palestinian woman carries her belongings through a street amid the rubble of houses destroyed by Israeli bombardment in Khan Younis, Gaza, on March 6 [AP]
Children sit in the rubble of the al-Faqawi family home on March 5, 2024 after an overnight Israeli air strike on Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip [Said Khatib/AFP]
Women and children gather to fetch water at the Ladan internally displaced persons camp. They have been forced to leave their homes because of climate change and insecurity
A child looks on as displaced Palestinians, who fled their houses due to Israeli strikes, shelter at a tent camp, in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip. REUTERS/Ibraheem Abu Mustafa
Disasters Forced 2.5 Million Americans From Their Homes Last Year
"Many of those #displaced also reported food shortages and predatory scams, according to new data from the Census Bureau.
The displacement data were gathered in the bureau’s Household Pulse Survey, which aims to measure how emerging social and economic challenges are affecting Americans. The survey added questions about disasters in December 2022."
Palestinians inspect destroyed houses following an Israeli air strike on the al-Farouq Mosque in the Rafah refugee camp, southern Gaza Strip, on February 22, 2024 [Haitham Imad/EPA]
Displaced Palestinians shelter at a tent camp at the border with Egypt, in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip
Displaced Palestinian children, who fled their houses due to Israeli strikes, play on swings at a tent camp at the border with Egypt, amid fears of an Israeli ground assault in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip February 18. REUTERS/Saleh Salem
Palestinians inspect the wreckage of buildings destroyed in an Israeli attack on Deir El-Balah, Gaza on February 18, 2024. (Photo: Omar Ashtawy/APA Images)
#Rafah, #Gaza
A Palestinian woman inspects the site of an Israeli strike on a house in Rafah. Israel’s prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, vowed to press ahead with an offensive on Rafah but only after civilians were allowed to leave the ‘battle zones’. The Israeli leader did not make clear where the trapped civilians would be permitted to go and what safeguards, if any, would be put in place to protect them
A woman rests next to a damaged building as Palestinians arrive in Rafah after they were evacuated from Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis, February 15, 2024 [Mohammed Salem/Reuters]
Displaced members of Palestinian Abu Mustafa family, who fled their house due to Israeli strikes, shelter at the border with Egypt, in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip. REUTERS/Mohammed Salem
A displaced Palestinian girl, with her face painted in the colours of the Palestinian flag, looks on at a tent camp in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip. REUTERS/Saleh Salem