About 90% of a total of 2.1 million residents of the Gaza Strip have been displaced after Israel issued evacuation orders 12 times in August alone, AP reported, citing a UN humanitarian representative in charge of the Palestinian territories, quoted by BTA.
US Vice President Kamala Harris said she and President Joe Biden are working to end the war in Gaza, where the International Rescue Committee says the first polio virus in 25 years is circulating, as hospitals and water facilities have been destroyed, as and the poor living conditions.
The office of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said a delegation from the country had arrived in Cairo to continue efforts to reach a ceasefire agreement. Mediators in the negotiations are the USA, Egypt and Qatar, and a key issue in them is Israel's demand for permanent control over two strategic corridors in Gaza.
The war began on October 7, when "Hamas" and other radical groups attacked Israel, killing about 1,200 people, most of them civilians, and taking about 250 hostages in Gaza. About 110 of them are still in captivity, with a third believed to have already died. The Israeli offensive launched in response to the attack has so far killed around 40,000 Palestinians in Gaza, according to the Strip's health ministry.