{"id":59255,"date":"2024-05-19T23:12:01","date_gmt":"2024-05-19T19:12:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/?p=59255"},"modified":"2024-05-19T23:12:03","modified_gmt":"2024-05-19T19:12:03","slug":"unrwa-nearly-800000-now-displaced-from-rafah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/2024\/05\/19\/unrwa-nearly-800000-now-displaced-from-rafah\/","title":{"rendered":"UNRWA: Nearly 800,000 now displaced from Rafah"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Roughly 800,000 people have been forced to flee Rafah since Israel launched a military operation in the area on 6 May, the head of UN Palestine refugee agency UNRWA said on Saturday in a renewed appeal for greater protection of civilians in Gaza, safe humanitarian access and, ultimately, a ceasefire.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cOnce again, nearly half of the population of Rafah or 800,000 people are on the road,\u201d Commissioner-General Philippe Lazzarini wrote in post on the social media platform X. formerly Twitter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He said that following evacuation orders demanding people to flee to so-called safe zones, people mainly went to the middle areas in Gaza and Khan Younis, including to destroyed buildings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe claim that people in Gaza can move to \u2018safe\u2019 or \u2018humanitarian\u2019 zones is false. Each time, it puts the lives of civilians at serious risk,\u201d Lazzarini stated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cGaza does not have any safe zones,\u201d he added. \u201cNo place is safe. No one is safe.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Roughly 800,000 people have been forced to flee Rafah since Israel launched a military operation in the area on 6 May, the head of UN Palestine refugee agency UNRWA said on Saturday in a renewed appeal for greater protection of civilians in Gaza, safe humanitarian access and, ultimately, a ceasefire. \u201cOnce again, nearly half of &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":59256,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59255","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59255"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59255\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59257,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59255\/revisions\/59257"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59256"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}