Eighty five per cent of Palestinians in Gaza have been internally displaced, according to the latest report by the UN’s Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA).

The 1.9 million internally displaced Palestinians include many who have been displaced multiple times, as families are forced to move repeatedly in search of safety, which is guaranteed nowhere in the Strip, says Al Jazeera, citing the report.

Nearly 1.4 million of these internally displaced people are sheltering in 155 UNRWA facilities across all five governorates in the Gaza Strip. All the facilities are “far exceeding their intended capacity”.

Moreover, the Rafah governorate is the main place of refuge for the displaced, with more than one million people squeezed into an extremely overcrowded space after the Israeli army intensified its attacks on Khan Younis and Deir el-Balah.