Overview Key messages Famine looms in the Gaza Strip, where the entire population of 2.2 million people faces alarming levels of acute food insecurity. Four out of every five people have been...
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oPt Emergency Situation Update 26 (as of 25 March 2024 at 16:00)
Key concerns • Continued dismantling of the health system. While the Nasser Medical Complex in Khan Younes remains non-functional for the fifth week, resumed hostilities in the vicinity of Shifa...
UNRWA Situation Report #96 on the situation in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, including East Jerusalem - All information from 26–27 March 2024, is valid as of 27 March 2024 at 22:30
Key Points The Gaza Strip Israeli Security Forces (ISF) continued military operations across Gaza, particularly in the Al Rimal area of Gaza City near Al Shifa Hospital, and in central Khan Younis...
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Japan supports UNMAS Humanitarian Mine Action Project to Reduce Explosive Risk Faced by Civilians
Palestine (28 March 2024): The Government of Japan has contributed US $1,258,861 to the United Nations Mine Action Service (UNMAS), for the project “Humanitarian Mine Action to Reduce Explosive Risk...
Understanding the Long Roots of Violence in the Occupied Palestinian Territories and Israel
The armed conflict between Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories (OPT) is one of the longest running in modern history. It’s also open to various interpretations, stories and...
A silent threat: Gaza’s struggle with solid waste management
The war in Gaza led to a dire humanitarian condition, profoundly affecting the lives of its 2.2 million people – loss of life, property and desperate need of food, dignified shelter and medical care. ...
The Right to Education is Under Attack in Gaza
“The longer children stay out of school, the more difficult it is to catch up, with lasting consequences.” — UNRWA A total of 162 school buildings in Gaza have been directly hit by the Israeli Army...
Gaza: World court issues fresh measures for Israel as crisis deepens [EN/AR]
The International Court of Justice (ICJ) on Thursday issued new provisional measures for Israel as the humanitarian situation in bombarded and besieged Gaza continues to deteriorate. The world court...
Statement by Ms. Alice Wairimu Nderitu, Special Adviser on the Prevention of Genocide, on the situation in the Middle East
New York, 28 March 2024 – The United Nations Under-Secretary-General and Special Adviser on the Prevention of Genocide, Alice Wairimu Nderitu, acknowledges the Security Council resolution of 25 March...
WFP Palestine Emergency Response External Situation Report #16 (25 March 2024)
HIGHLIGHTS • The latest Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) report findings show that the entire population of Gaza is facing high levels of food insecurity, and half the population –...
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A Disturbing Trend: Over 1000 Attacks on Health Care in the oPt since 07 October 2023
Today marks the grim milestone of over 1000 recorded attacks on health care in the occupied Palestinian territories (oPt), five months into Israel’s assault on Gaza following attacks by...
Occupied Palestinian Territory (oPt) Protection Analysis Update March 2024
In the backdrop of ongoing hostilities in Gaza, protection actors have noted a steady deterioration of the protection situation of Palestinians living in the occupied West Bank, including East...
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Atrocity Alert No. 388: Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territory, South Sudan and Nicaragua
Atrocity Alert is a weekly publication by the Global Centre for the Responsibility to Protect highlighting situations where populations are at risk of, or are enduring, mass atrocity crimes. UN...
In response to Gaza war, RSF opens regional press freedom centre in Beirut
Reporters Without Borders (RSF) is opening a regional press freedom centre in Beirut, Lebanon, to provide journalists and media covering the war in Gaza and the entire region with the equipment,...
Statement by the Executive Director on Impending Famine in Gaza
The threat of famine is looming over Gaza. Hunger and malnutrition, driven wholly by manmade causes and by a lack of humanitarian access, have spread through Gaza at frightening speed, causing...
PRCS’s Al-Amal Hospital is Out of Service [EN/AR]
(Al-Bireh - Gaza: 3/26/2024): The Palestine Red Crescent Society announces that the Society’s Al-Amal Hospital in the city of Khan Yunis has been taken out of service and has stopped working...
In a week, Israeli army executes 13 children in and near Al-Shifa Hospital [EN/AR]
Palestinian Territory - In blatant violation of international law, particularly international humanitarian law, the Israeli army has executed 13 children by direct shooting in Al-Shifa Medical...
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Hostilities in the Gaza Strip and Israel | Flash Update #147 [EN/AR/HE]
Key Highlights Famine is ever closer to becoming a reality in northern Gaza, the World Health Organization reports. Health services in northern Gaza have been largely destroyed and the healthcare...
UNRWA Situation Report #95 on the situation in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, including East Jerusalem - All information from 24–25 March 2024, is valid as of 25 March 2024 at 22:30 [EN/AR]
Key Points The Gaza Strip On 24 March, UNRWA Commissioner-General, Philippe Lazzarini, [1] that Israeli Authorities had informed the UN that they will no longer approve any UNRWA food convoys to...
Verification of damages to schools based on proximity to damaged sites - Gaza, Occupied Palestinian Territory (26 March 2024)
Background • In Gaza, 17 years of blockade combined with recurrent conflict have damaged and destroyed an already fragile education infrastructure: increasing pressure on education facilities,...