James Elder, spokesman for the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), said that two-thirds of the houses in Gaza, which is under intense Israeli attacks, have been destroyed or damaged.
Elder, who has been directing activities in Gaza for some time, warned on social media about the destruction that the Israeli army is carrying out in Gaza.
“Two out of every three houses in Gaza have been destroyed or damaged,” Elder said.
Noting that he saw ruins everywhere in Gaza, Elder said that at one point the houses that the Palestinian people had painstakingly built for years were destroyed.
Elder also pointed out that the dreams of people in Gaza have been destroyed and called for an end to the destruction in the Palestinian enclave.
Israel has launched an offensive into the Gaza Strip since a cross-border attack by the Palestinian group Hamas on October 7 that killed around 1,200 people.
The number of people killed in the attacks carried out by the Israeli army on the Gaza Strip since October 7, 2023 has risen to 33,970.
Israel’s war has pushed 85 percent of the population of the Gaza Strip into internal displacement with acute shortages of food, clean water and medicine, while 60 percent of the enclave’s infrastructure has been damaged or destroyed, according to United Nations data.
Israel is accused of genocide before the International Court of Justice. An interim ruling in January ordered Tel Aviv to stop the genocidal acts and take measures to ensure humanitarian aid is provided to civilians in Gaza, AA writes.
