UN aid coordination office (OCHA) said on Wednesday that Gazans continue to be displaced due to active fighting and bombardment.
Briefing journalists in New York, Deputy UN Spokesperson Farhan Haq said that agency assisting Palestine refugee (UNRWA) estimates that only 65,000 people remain in Rafah, compared to six weeks ago when the southern city hosted 1.4 million displaced - before the Israeli evacuation order and military operation there began.
"UNRWA also tells us that for more than eight months now, 625,000 children have been out of school", said Mr. Haq.
Meanwhile, OCHA reports that for the first time since early June, five trucks of fuel entered Gaza. However, the supplies remain scarce as no fuel had been delivered in the Strip for the past two weeks.
Women-led organizations in Gaza 'an inspiration'
And in an exclusive interview with UN News, the Special Representative for UN Women in the Occupied Palestinian Territories said the resilience of women-led organizations to continue working across Gaza to benefit their communities is "an inspiration".
Maryse Guimond from the Palestine Office of the UN agency advocating for gender equality described her first mission to the war-stricken enclave since before hostilities began and outlined how they are collaborating with other agencies, providing resources suck as food, dignity kits and psychosocial support.
She said the women-run organizations UN Women has been supporting are "key responders", many of whom have been displaced multiple times themselves during the ongoing conflict.
