The Israeli military on Thursday called on residents to leave parts of central and eastern Khan Younis in the south of the enclave, a day after issuing two separate orders for parts of the northern Gaza Strip.
The United Nations Office for Humanitarian Affairs, OCHA, said the parts of the northern and southern Gaza Strip for which evacuation orders were recently issued cover nearly 43 square kilometers.
According to initial observations by local partners, there are around 230 displacement sites, over three dozen water, sanitation and hygiene facilities and five functioning health facilities in these areas, including the Indonesian hospital.
According to OCHA, more than 80 percent of the Gaza Strip has been under evacuation orders since the conflict began last October.
Aid volume more than halved
Meanwhile, the delivery of aid to Gaza remains difficult due to access restrictions, lack of public order and security, high levels of insecurity and other factors.
The amount of humanitarian aid that can be brought into Gaza through the operational border crossings has fallen by more than half since the beginning of May, following the closure of the Rafah border crossing with Egypt.
In April there were an average of 169 trucks per day, in June and July there were fewer than 80 trucks.
At the Kerem Shalom border crossing with Israel, the decline was even more pronounced: here, the number of aid deliveries fell by more than 80 percent in the same three-month period, from 127 trucks per day in April to less than two dozen per day in July.
According to the UN, before the ongoing war, 500 trucks drove into Gaza every day.
According to OCHA, humanitarian assistance operations that require coordination with the Israeli authorities continue to be denied or obstructed.
As of Thursday, only 24 of the 67 planned missions to northern Gaza this month had been carried out, while the rest had been either denied, hampered or cancelled for security, logistical or operational reasons.
The situation is similar in the southern Gaza Strip, where about half of the 100 planned missions were supported by Israel, but the rest were refused, obstructed or cancelled.
