NEW YORK, August 22, 2025 (WAFA) – The United Nations has announced that the number of Palestinians displaced in Gaza due to Israeli attacks since mid-March has surpassed 796,000.

Deputy Spokesperson for the UN Secretary-General, Daniela Gross, told reporters that nearly 17,000 new displacements were recorded between August 12 and 20, noting that forced displacement has sharply increased as a result of the ongoing Israeli assaults.

With these figures, the total number of registered displaced people since the collapse of the ceasefire in mid-March has exceeded 796,000. According to the UN, 95% of the forced displacement is occurring in Gaza City, where residents are fleeing from the east to the south and west in search of safety from Israeli attacks.

Since August 11, Israeli forces have launched a large-scale assault on the Zaytoun neighborhood in southeastern Gaza City, involving the demolition of homes with booby-trapped robots, artillery shelling, random gunfire, and mass forced displacement, as part of an Israeli plan to reoccupy the remainder of the Gaza Strip.

On August 8, the Israeli government approved a plan proposed by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to gradually reoccupy the entire Gaza Strip, beginning with Gaza City.

Earlier, on July 20, the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) reported that 88% of Gaza’s territory—approximately 360 square kilometers inhabited by about 2.3 million Palestinians—was under Israeli evacuation orders, amounting to large-scale forced displacement.

Since October 2023, Israel has been carrying out acts of genocide in Gaza, including mass killings, starvation, destruction, and forced displacement, in defiance of international appeals and binding orders from the International Court of Justice to halt such actions.

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