New York, July 22 -- On July 20, displacement orders were issued by Israeli forces in parts of Deir Al-Balah, an area that was considered the last remotely safe area in Gaza, and contains one of the few remaining water desalination plants.
According to OCHA, an estimated 50,000 to 80,000 people, who have already been displaced multiple times, were forced to move again and are being squeezed into an ever-shrinking space.
These orders affect Doctors Without Borders/Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) staff living in Deir Al-Balah, and 36 of our colleagues at MSF's Al-Mawasi clinic had to abruptly leave a busy health facility that was treating an influx of patients from Gaza Humanitarian Foundation distribution sites so they could evacuate their ...