UN agency: 600,000 displaced people in Gaza are sheltering in 150 UNRWA facilities

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FILE PHOTO: Families of staff of international organisations shelter at a United Nations center after UNRWA said it relocated its central operations centre to the south of Gaza Strip after Israel's call for more than 1 million civilians in northern Gaza to move south within 24 hours, amid the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip October 13, 2023.  REUTERS/Ibraheem Abu Mustafa/File Photo

Families of international organisation staff members sheltering at a UN centre, in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip October 13, 2023.

PHOTO: REUTERS

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GAZA - Nearly 600,000 internally displaced people are sheltering in 150 facilities of the United Nations Palestinian refugee agency (UNRWA) in Gaza, while at least 40 UNRWA installations have been impacted, the UN agency posted on Wednesday on the social media platform X.

"Our shelters are four times over their capacities - many people are sleeping in the streets as current facilities are overwhelmed," the agency added. REUTERS

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