The latest Israeli order for the evacuation of central and western areas of Gaza City affects “tens of thousands of people”, while patients and staff were forced to flee three of Gaza’s hospitals in one week, the UN said, Al Jazeera reports.

Between Tuesday and Monday afternoon, 182 Palestinians were killed and 458 injured in Israeli attacks from air, land and sea on the Gaza Strip, the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) also reports in its latest situation update.

OCHA adds that assessments over the last 10 days at sites hosting new waves of displaced people found “critical levels of need across all sectors” and that nine out of every 10 people in Gaza are now estimated to be displaced.

“New waves of displacement are mostly affecting people who have already been displaced multiple times, only to find themselves forced to flee again under shelling,” the UN said.

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