Attachments
Highlights
The Gaza Strip
- Severe storm conditions have resulted in reported deaths, flooding incidents that affected nearly 55,000 households, and the evacuation of 370 families from shoreline sites. The Site Management Cluster warns that the overall impact is likely significantly higher, particularly in high-risk, unmanaged sites, with hundreds of thousands of people living in low-lying, coastal, or debris-filled areas exposed to flooding.
- According to the Shelter Cluster, since 10 December, 17 buildings are estimated to have collapsed and more than 42,000 tents or makeshift shelters are estimated to have sustained full or partial damage, particularly in 320 displacement sites and 43 areas, affecting at least 235,000 people.
- Responding to the recent Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) analysis for Gaza that recognises the relatively improved food security and nutrition situation in Gaza, the UNRWA Commissioner-General noted that gains remain fragile and warned that “while Gaza Governorate is no longer classified as being in famine, 1.6 million people still face high levels of acute food insecurity.”
- The Israeli military remains deployed in over 50 per cent of the Gaza Strip, beyond the so-called “Yellow Line” which remains largely unmarked on the ground and where access to humanitarian facilities and assets, public infrastructure and agricultural land remain severely restricted or prohibited. Airstrikes, shelling, and gunfire continued to be reported across the Gaza Strip, with most incidents occurring in the vicinity of the “Yellow Line,” resulting in casualties. Concerningly, UNRWA teams reported that the “Yellow Line” was moved westwards over the past week in different parts of the Gaza Strip, limiting access to key UNRWA installations.
- According to the NGO Access Snapshot compiled based on reports from 45 international and Palestinian NGOs, nearly US$ 50 million in life-saving aid is being blocked from Gaza. This does not include UNRWA’s food parcels, flour, and shelter supplies prepositioned outside Gaza.
The West Bank including East Jerusalem
- With widespread destruction having occurred under the auspices of the Israeli forces’ operation ‘Iron Wall’ in the northern West Bank since January 2025, on 18 December the Israeli Supreme Court froze the implementation of a demolition order issued by Israeli forces against 25 buildings inside Nur Shams Camp, which was due to commence the same day.