The government media office in the Gaza Strip announced yesterday, Sunday, that the Israeli army demolished more than 61% of the homes in the Strip.
The office stated in a statement that “the occupation destroyed more than 305,000 housing units as part of its broad campaign against our Palestinian people,” which it describes as a “genocidal war.”
The office alerted countries and international organizations to “a humanitarian catastrophe in Gaza,” given the high number of homes and housing units that were destroyed.
He pointed out that “during the course of its war on Gaza, Israeli aircraft dropped more than 52,000 tons of explosives on citizens’ homes, hospitals, schools, and civilian institutions.”
He reported that more than “one and a half million displaced people inside the Gaza Strip are living in catastrophic and difficult conditions, as a result of deteriorating living conditions, lack of shelter, and the spread of diseases and epidemics, in light of the approaching winter season and the extreme cold.”
The office considered that organizing the entry of aid into Gaza and depriving civilians of food, treatment, and the necessities of life “is similar to a death sentence for 2.2 million individuals in the Strip.”
On the other hand, the media office strongly requested the need to “open the Rafah crossing completely around the clock and provide daily entry of actual aid, with the aim of saving what can be saved as a result of the war.”
He appealed to “Arab and Islamic countries to provide medically equipped field hospitals to enter the Gaza Strip, with the aim of saving the lives of tens of thousands of wounded and transferring the injured in critical conditions to hospitals to receive treatment.”
Since last October 7, Israel has been waging a devastating war on Gaza, which, as of Saturday evening, resulted in the death of 17,997 Palestinians and the injury of 49,229 others, most of them children and women. This war left massive infrastructure destruction and an “unprecedented humanitarian catastrophe,” according to official Palestinian and UN sources.