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Situation Update
Gaza Strip
• Health updates
• On 6 November 2024, WHO and partners successful evacuated 229 patients and companions outside Gaza. Eighty-four patients and 124 companions were transferred to the UAE, while six patients and 15 companions to Romania. Cumulatively, more than 5,230 (33%) out of the over 15,600 cases requested for medical evacuation have been successfully evacuated outside Gaza, between 7 October 2023 and 6 November 2024, with only 321 patients evacuated since Rafah Closure in May 2024.
• The ongoing ground operation in North Gaza has forcefully displaced around 100,000 people between 6 October to 4 November 2024, according to the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA). Access to Indonesian, Kamal Adwan, and Al-Awda Jabalia hospitals is severely restricted, jeopardizing the right to health of around 75,000 – 95,000 people remaining North Gaza.
• Persistent fuel shortages continue to threaten humanitarian interventions, including health care provision, impacting the functionality of hospitals, PHCCs and ambulance services. From 3 November 2024, due to critical fuel shortages, Al-Awda Jabalia Hospital was forced to start running its generators for only three hours per day, disrupting lifesaving surgeries and other healthcare services.
• During a visit to Kamal Adwan Hospital on 3 November, the WHO team observed that only three physicians (two pediatricians and one general physician) and some 30 nurses, remained at the hospital, providing healthcare to around 120 patients. At least 40 casualties were observed in the emergency department, at the time of the mission.
• Between 30 October and 5 November 2024, twelve attacks on health care were verified, including eight in North Gaza. The attacks affected seven ambulances and caused injuries to 21 people inside the health facilities, including 11 staff members and 10 children.
• The Ministry of Health reported that the Indonesian Hospital currently has a total of 17 staff members providing healthcare services to 35 patients present in the facility. However, accessibility remains severely restricted for patients outside the hospital.
• According to Israeli authorities, over 1,200 Israelis and foreign nationals were killed inside Israel, and approximately 5,400 reported injuries. As of 5 November, there have been 368 reported fatalities and 2,394 reported injuries of Israeli soldiers since the start of the ground operation in the Gaza Strip.