According to the United Nations Office for Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), nearly 339,000 people have been forced to flee their homes in the besieged Gaza Strip bombed by Israel's army.
The number of displaced people in the Palestinian territory from 2.3 million inhabitants to last night "increased by another 75,000 people and reached the figure of 338,934," the UN office said in a statement published today.
"Mass displacement in the Gaza Strip continues," OCHA said, explaining that nearly 220,000 people have sought refuge in schools run by the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA); some 15,000 have fled to schools run by the Palestinian Authority; More than 100,000 have found refuge with relatives and neighbours or in other religious and civil structures in Gaza City.
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