According to the United Nations, more than 142,000 Gazans have been displaced in the week after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government broke the ceasefire in the Palestinian territory on March 18. They were forced to flee, in confusion and destitution, subjected to evacuation orders issued by the Israeli army. Gaza's population is exhausted by 16 months of brutal warfare, between October 2023 and January 19, when the ceasefire came into force.

"Palestinians in general have nowhere safe to go and there's not even a pretense of a safe place in Gaza anymore," warned Gavin Kelleher of the Norwegian Refugee Council, speaking from Gaza at a joint press conference, held remotely with other humanitarian organizations on Wednesday, March 26.

The Israeli authorities have continued to deny foreign media outlets access to the enclave. Families have already been displaced twice in the space of a week, said Kelleher. Tents are in desperately short supply. Families are crammed into the corridors of already overcrowded schools transformed into shelters. Others have sought refuge near the last remnants of collapsed apartment buildings, trying, at all costs, to "put absolutely anything between themselves and the sky at night."

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