{"id":2284,"date":"2024-05-20T14:09:36","date_gmt":"2024-05-20T08:24:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/?p=2284"},"modified":"2024-05-20T14:09:36","modified_gmt":"2024-05-20T08:24:36","slug":"nearly-800000-now-displaced-from-rafah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/nearly-800000-now-displaced-from-rafah\/","title":{"rendered":"Nearly 800,000 now displaced from Rafah"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><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<p>&#8220;Once again, nearly half of the population of Rafah or 800,000 people are on the road,&#8221; Commissioner-General Philippe Lazzarini wrote in post on the social media platform X. formerly Twitter.<\/p>\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<p>&#8220;The claim that people in Gaza can move to &#8216;safe&#8217; or &#8216;humanitarian&#8217; zones is false. Each time, it puts the lives of civilians at serious risk,&#8221; Lazzarini stated.<br \/>\n&#8220;Gaza does not have any safe zones,&#8221; he added. &#8220;No place is safe. No one is safe.&#8221;(ANI\/WAM)<\/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. &#8220;Once again, nearly half of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1258,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2284"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2284"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2284\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2285,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2284\/revisions\/2285"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1258"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}