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After Israel’s offensive in Gaza expanded into the central section of the coastal strip, there is even less room for Palestinian internally displaced persons, the UN Palestinian relief agency UNRWA said on Tuesday. “Rafah in the south is now bursting at the seams,” Thomas White, the director of the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA), wrote in a post on X. “More people in less space … No respite. Time for a humanitarian ceasefire,” White wrote. Israel’s ground offensive in the Gaza Strip, which began two months ago, was initially focused on the northern…

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