The UN agency supporting Palestinian refugees estimated Tuesday that a quarter of a million people had been impacted since Israel's army issued a new evacuation order for parts of southern Gaza a day earlier.
"We've seen people moving, families moving, people starting to pack up their belongings and try to leave this area," UNRWA spokeswoman Louise Wateridge told reporters in Geneva via video link from Gaza.
She added that the agency "estimates that around 250,000 people have been impacted by these orders".
Meanwhile, the Palestinian health ministry in Hamas-run Gaza said war death toll reached to 37,925 on Tuesday, the 269th day since the war between Israel and Hamas began
Source: AFP