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Highlights
- Since the collapse of the ceasefire in Gaza on the night between 17 and 18 March 2025, intense military activities and hostilities have continued to escalate, resulting in hundreds of civilians killed and injured, further damage and destruction to civilian infrastructure, and new waves of forced displacement.
- Humanitarian aid and supplies have not entered the Gaza Strip for almost seven weeks now (since 2 March 2025), when the Israeli Authorities imposed a siege. This is three times longer than the siege the Israeli Authorities imposed in October 2023 when the war started. As a result, critical humanitarian supplies, including food, fuel medical aid and vaccines for children, are rapidly depleting.
- This is “likely the worst humanitarian crisis” the Gaza Strip is facing in the 18 months since the war started in October 2023.
- Stéphane Dujarric (Spokesperson of the UN Secretary-General) stated that “under international humanitarian law, if the whole or part of the population of an occupied territory is inadequately supplied, the occupying Power shall agree to relief schemes on behalf of the said population, and shall facilitate them by all the means at its disposal.”