The UN Palestinian refugee agency has called for a temporary truce to allow civilians to evacuate northern Gaza, as the humanitarian situation worsens amid a three-week Israeli assault.
The UN Palestinian refugee agency has called for a temporary truce to allow people to leave areas of northern Gaza as health officials said they were running out of supplies to treat patients injured in a three-week Israeli assault. Philippe Lazzarini, head of the UNRWA relief agency, said the humanitarian situation had reached a dire point, with bodies abandoned by roadsides or buried under rubble.
"Hospitals also ran out of coffins to prepare the dead and we have asked people to donate any fabric they have at home." The Israeli military, which launched an assault against Hamas militants holding out in the northern town of Jabalia this month, says it is evacuating people along designated routes and has filtered out dozens of militants from civilians going south.
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