News Center- Juliette Touma, Director of Communications for the UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA), spoke from Amman to journalists at UN Headquarters in New York on Tuesday.

“More than one million have fled Rafah only in the past three weeks (since 6 May). The displacement continues including today. People in Rafah have been displaced several times already,” Juliette Touma said.

Heavy bombardment continued overnight

Pointing to that heavy bombardment continued overnight in the area including in Tal Al Sultan (north of Rafah) where the UN main offices in Gaza are, Juliette Touma said, “Just over 200 trucks with humanitarian supplies were picked up in the last three weeks as people’s humanitarian needs continue to immensely increase.”

At least 200 people killed

Juliette Touma also gave information about the death toll in the Israeli airstrikes on Sunday that hit tents sheltering displaced Palestinians in Rafah. “According to some medical sources, at least 200 people were killed in the airstrikes. The attack added to the general fear of death. People are seeing so much death around them. A colleague who recently returned from Gaza told me today people are dying inside, everywhere they look there is death, and it is as if people have accepted that death is their fate.”