The figure includes seven schools and two clinics used as shelters for thousands of displaced people, said UNRWA Commissioner-General Philippe Lazzarini on social network X.

Every day “more and more people are forced to leave, disoriented and uncertain, heading for the unknown,” said the official.

In half of last month, the IDF intensified shelling against the village as part of preparations for a ground offensive, which is about to begin, although many neighborhoods on the outskirts are already under military control.

Before the campaign, an estimated one million Palestinians lived or were refugees in the city, but more than 350,000 have escaped in recent weeks, a number that continues to rise.

UNRWA also denounced yesterday, through X network, that tens of thousands of Palestinians were forced to leave the city and the neighboring camp of Jabalia.

“Displacement is increasing and there are no safe places,” while the army continues with the systematic destruction of UN buildings and schools, the commissioner said.

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