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.
At the #UN Human Rights Council, the representative of South Africa condemns attacks on the UN Special Rapporteur for the occupied Palestinian territory Francesca Albanese and called for those responsible for the intimidation and harassment to stop.