Over 1 million people in the Gaza Strip live in tents.

Omissions

• The only concrete numerical estimate found (~986,000 people living in tents, 'an indicative scale' per the Norwegian Refugee Council) is slightly below 1 million; the claim of 'over 1 million' is a modest rounding up, within standard rounding tolerance (~1.4%).
• The NRC estimate is a single independent secondary source; no primary figure (OCHA, UNRWA, or shelter-cluster database) with an exact count for the reference period could be retrieved before the search limit.
• The NRC estimate refers to the summer period (likely 2025) and may not exactly match the July 2026 session date.
• The OCHA situation report retrieved (10 July 2026) confirms displaced families continue to live 'in tents and informal sites' but was published one day after the session and provides no count in the available excerpt; the MEP could not have known it.
• Social-media posts (e.g., Medical Aid for Palestinians) citing 1.9 million displaced 'living in tents and temporary shelters' were excluded as non-credible sources and conflate tents with other shelter types.

Sources

• SecondaryReliefWeb — Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) press releaseGaza: Israel's shelter restrictions force nearly a million people to endure summer heat in tents... living in tents, giving an indicative scale of around 986,000 people.
• SecondaryOCHA occupied Palestinian territory — Humanitarian Situation ReportIn Gaza, with most people already displaced, new displacement... displaced families living in tents and informal sites.
• SecondaryUN News — Reviving communities home by home in Gaza“I never expected that I would be living in tents for so long.” Each displacement meant starting over from scratch.