those "safe zones" designated at the onset of the conflict have been reduced to around 13 percent of Gaza amidst Israeli attacks, with a population density of more than 30,000 people per square km.
The UN reports that, to date, more than 80 percent of Gaza's population has been displaced, and the majority of its buildings destroyed, a reality which has taken its own toll on the well-being of children. And what about the emotional wounds? "How can you measure that? I can't meas...
Most of Gaza’s population of more than two million people have had to huddle into tents and schools and other people’s apartments for much of the war, driven by Israel’s air strikes and evacuation orders from their houses or the earlier shelters ...
About 577,000 people in Gaza, equal to a quarter of the population, are now starving, Arif Husain, chief economist for the U.N.'s World Food program, told ABC News. Hussain has worked as an expert assessing hunger crises for 20 years and said, in terms of scale of severity and speed...
Human Rights Watch and other groups say the plan, if implemented, would amount to "ethnic cleansing", the forcible relocation of the civilian population of an ethnic group from a geographic area. Meanwhile, Israel's defence minister Israel Katz wrote on X on T...
While it is not clear how Gaza will be rebuilt when the current conflict between Hamas and Israel ends - it is equally uncertain how the US would come to "own" Gaza, resettle its population, and redevelop the land.
Israel says it killed over 17,000 militants, without providing evidence. The offensive destroyed large areas of Gaza, including much of its health system and other infrastructure. At its height, the war displaced about 90% of the population, mostly within ...
According to the PCBS, in 1997, approximately over 90% of Gaza's population over the age of 10 was literate. Of the city's population, 140,848 were enrolled in schools (39.8% in elementary school, 33.8% in secondary school, and 26.4% in high school). About 11,134 people received bach...
Macron said France hopes to help speed up the release of the remaining hostages in Gaza, two of whom are French citizens. Macron also urged Israel to allow for a ″massive″ facilitation of aid to Gaza’s population, and to fulfill its promises to withdraw troops from Lebanon under a tr...
The UN said on its website that approximately 90% of the population across Gaza have been displaced, many of whom have been forced to move repeatedly, “some 10 times or more.” “Much of Gaza is rubble, while Israeli airstrikes and military operations have damaged or destroyed around...