Geneva - Saba:
"Some 90% of homes in the Gaza Strip have been destroyed, hundreds of thousands of people have nowhere to go, and Palestinians returning to their areas in the Gaza Strip have found themselves in the face of piles of rubble," the International Organization for Migration (IOM) said on Friday.
The "Palestinians in Gaza live in miserable conditions, with access to basic needs and services almost non-existent," IOM added in a statement, following a visit to Gaza by its head Amy Pope and the Humanitarian Coordinator for the occupied Palestinian territory, Muhannad Hadi.
The statement said the Organization, in cooperation with the United Nations and its humanitarian partners, is working to increase emergency shelter assistance.
According to the statement, IOM has sent shelter, water, sanitation, hygiene and non-food items assistance since January 19 to support the population in Gaza.
The statement included remarks by the IOM's director, who said: "The scale of the destruction in Gaza is staggering. Families who have lost everything are facing the cold without protection, infrastructure or services, and without any certainty about what tomorrow will bring."
Bob indicated that she spoke with "parents struggling to keep their children alive, building temporary shelters using whatever they can find, and that these people have nowhere else to go."
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