Country: occupied Palestinian territory Source: Polish Humanitarian Action - Polska Akcja Humanitarna Please refer to the attached file. We have received with grave concern the news of another evacuation order affecting residents of the central Gaza Strip, given the catastrophic humanitarian situation.The map of areas to be evacuated, published Sunday 20th July, includes, among other things, temporary camps for internally displaced persons, which are inhabited by Palestinians from other areas of the Gaza Strip. Currently, more than 2 million residents reside in only 14% of the Strip - the remaining 86% are either under military action or evacuation orders. Overcrowding poses a huge epidemiological threat and does not allow even basic hygiene standards to be maintained. Subsequent relocations will not solve this problem but will only lead to further shrinkage of living space for the already repeatedly displaced population.Access to food also remains a huge challenge. The World Food Program has reported that half a million residents of the Strip are already starving, with most families eating one meal a day or even every other day. Doctors working in the few active health centers are sounding the alarm about the growing number of cases of acute malnutrition, especially among children and nursing mothers.Current humanitarian supplies do not match the scale of needs on the ground. There is a shortage not only of food, but also of medicine or fuel, which is needed to power hospitals, field kitchens or desalinate water. Thousands of trucks filled with so much-needed products are still waiting at border crossings to enter the Gaza Strip. The death toll is rising every day, approaching the threshold of 60,000 deaths from 7th October 2023 till today. Nearly a third of the victims are children.Polish Humanitarian Action and other aid organizations from around the world are calling for an agreement on a ceasefire to be reached as soon as possible, the opening of humanitarian crossings, and increased protection for civilians, especially those most vulnerable to this crisis: children and young people, women, the sick, the elderly and the disabled.