Civilians were ordered to move to a 60km² area extending from 6 May Mawasi, an Israeli-declared humanitarian zone on Gaza’s coast, to the coast north to which the population of Rafah is being displaced, and across Gaza, all of which will face of Deir al-Balah. [...] Mawasi was already sheltering up to 450,000 Palestinian IDPs, the impact of the disruption to humanitarian operations in Rafah and the closure of Rafah with no space for an IDP influx from Rafah. [...] • By 7 October, up to 1.5 million displaced Palestinians – nearly 90% of the 1.7 million displaced people in Gaza and 65% of all Gazans – were sheltering in Rafah in densely By 10 May, an estimated 110,000 people had fled Rafah to locations including concentrated makeshift shelters. [...] Source: The Guardian (08/05/2024) HUMANITARIAN ACCESS Since 7 May 2024, humanitarian assistance has been unable to proceed through the two main crossings in the south: Rafah, which Israeli forces have occupied, and Karam Abu Salem- Kerem Shalom, which was temporarily closed and is now inaccessible to humanitarians because of fighting and a lack of fuel and staff (The Guardian 09/05/2024 a; OCHA 06. [...] has left people without the health services required to treat casualties from fighting and • In Deir al-Balah and Khan Younis, people are arriving without shelters and sleeping on the growing cases of hepatitis A, diarrhoea, jaundice, and other diseases spreading because of streets, in rubble, and in other open and unsafe spaces (OCHA 10/05/2024; AJ 10/05/2024).
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