
About 233,000 displaced people had left the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) shelters in the Gaza Strip as of Wednesday afternoon, while about 54,000 people remained in 78 shelters, a UN spokesman said here Thursday.
Stephane Dujarric, the UN spokesman, made the statement at a daily news briefing here, quoting a report from the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA).
"However, the number of displaced people is still very fluid, as people left shelters temporarily to go back to their work and check on their homes to gather personal items," Dujarric said.
The OCHA report came after Israeli and Palestinian negotiators agreed Tuesday to an Egyptian-brokered ceasefire deal to end the 50-day conflict. The first full day of an Israeli-Hamas truce passed peacefully on Wednesday.
During the conflict, Palestinians sought refuge in UN schools in Gaza. In Gaza, life did not return to normal on Wednesday, but thousands of residents did return to their homes, reports said.
More than 2,000 Palestinians were killed and 10,000 injured since July 8 when Israel launched Operation Protective Edge in a bid to stamp out cross-border rocket fire from Hamas-ruled Gaza. On the Israeli side, five civilians and 64 soldiers have been killed.
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