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RAFAH IS 'PRESSURE COOKER OF DESPAIR' AS GAZANS FLEE SOUTH - UN AGENCY

By Gabrielle Tétrault-Farber
February 2, 20245:52 PM GMT+1Updated 10 months ago
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 * More than half of Gaza's people sheltering in the south
 * Israel set to advance towards Rafah
 * UNICEF says nearly all children need mental health aid

GENEVA, Feb 2 (Reuters) - The United Nations humanitarian office on Friday
voiced concern about the hostilities in Khan Younis that have forced more people
to flee to Rafah in the far south of Gaza, describing the border town as a
"pressure cooker of despair".
The comments come as Israel prepares to advance its war on Gaza farther south,
close to the Egyptian border, where most Gazans have sought refuge from the
Israeli offensive.
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"I want to emphasize our deep concern about the escalation of hostilities in
Khan Younis, which has resulted in an increase in the number of internally
displaced people seeking refuge in Rafah in recent days," said Jens Laerke,
spokesperson for the U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs.
More than half of Gaza's 2.3 million people are sheltering in the area, mainly
cold and hungry in makeshift tents and public buildings.
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"Rafah is a pressure cooker of despair, and we fear for what comes next," Laerke
said.
Gaza residents have said Israeli forces pounded areas around hospitals in Khan
Younis, and stepped up attacks close to Rafah.

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"Khan Younis has also come increasingly under attack, and it's been shocking to
hear about the heavy fighting in the vicinity of the hospitals, jeopardising the
safety of medical staff, the wounded and sick, as well as thousands of
internally displaced people seeking refuge there," Laerke said.

"Agencies are indeed struggling to respond under these circumstances."
In separate comments, UNICEF said it estimated that 17,000 children in Gaza were
unaccompanied or have been separated from their families during the conflict,
which began on Oct. 7 in the wake of attacks by Hamas gunmen in southern Israel.
It said that nearly all children in the enclave were thought to require mental
health support.

"They present symptoms like extremely high levels of persistent anxiety, loss of
appetite. They can't sleep, they have emotional outbursts or they panic every
time they hear a bombing," said Jonathan Crickx, UNICEF's chief of communication
for the Occupied Palestinian Territories.
"Before this war, UNICEF was considering already that 500,000 children were
already in need of mental health and psychosocial support in Gaza. Today, we
estimate that almost all children are in need of that support, and that's more
than 1 million children."

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