MOSCOW: More than 338,000 people in the Gaza Strip have been forced to flee their homes since the Palestinian-Israeli conflict escalated, the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said yesterday, reported Sputnik.
"Mass displacement across the Gaza Strip continues. The cumulative number of displaced people increased by 30 per cent over the past 24 hours, now totalling 338,934," the office said in a statement.
The office added that the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East now hosts a total of 218,597 displaced people, or 65 per cent, in 92 schools, and 14,837 internally displaced people have taken refuge at 18 Palestinian Authority schools.-- BERNAMA-SPUTNIK