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UN agency working round the clock to provide shelter for thousands of Gazans 

UN agency working round the clock to provide shelter for thousands of Gazans 

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Amid ongoing Israeli reprisals in the Occupied Palestinian Territory following Hamas’s massive attack against Israel at the weekend, more than 73,000 people in Gaza have now sought shelter in UN schools there. 

That’s the latest from the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA), which expects the number of new arrivals to increase, while the violence continues to escalate. 

With more, here’s UNWRA’s chief of communications Tamara Alrifai, whose been speaking to UN News’s Daniel Johnson from Amman. 

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Daniel Johnson, UN News - Geneva
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5'36"
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© UNRWA/Mohammed Hinnawi