Gaza, MINA — The United Nations reported on Monday that more than 300,000 people have moved from southern Gaza back to the north in recent days as the ceasefire between Israel and Hamas continues to ease access restrictions across the enclave.
“From Friday until yesterday, our colleagues monitoring displacement recorded nearly 310,000 movements of people from southern to northern Gaza and about 23,000 movements in other directions,” UN spokesperson Farhan Haq said during a news conference.
Haq noted that humanitarian workers can now access previously unreachable areas, allowing aid teams to deliver supplies and assess damaged infrastructure. “With the easing of movement and access restrictions in multiple places, we were able to pre-position medical and emergency supplies where they are needed most and assess key roads for explosive hazards,” he said.
The UN relief chief, Tom Fletcher, has also allocated an additional $11 million from the Central Emergency Response Fund (CERF) to support the rapid scale-up of humanitarian operations in Gaza ahead of the winter season. This follows a $9 million allocation the previous week to ensure fuel supplies for essential services, bringing total recent CERF funding for Gaza to $20 million.
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Fletcher warned that continued aid efforts depend on new contributions, stressing that “without fresh funding, critical aid cannot keep flowing to people who rely on it.” Under the initial 60-day humanitarian plan, the UN and its partners aim to deliver food, water, shelter, healthcare, hygiene items, and protection services throughout Gaza.
The ongoing ceasefire is part of the first phase of a peace plan announced by US President Donald Trump on September 29, which includes the release of prisoners and hostages, a full Israeli troop withdrawal, and a subsequent phase involving the creation of a new governing authority in Gaza and the disarmament of Hamas.
Since October 2023, Israeli attacks have killed more than 67,800 Palestinians, the majority women and children leaving Gaza devastated and largely uninhabitable.[]
Mi’raj News Agency (MINA)
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