Reports

Highlights The civilian population in the Gaza Strip are squeezed into smaller and smaller areas, as an estimated 1.3 million people – more than 50 per cent of Gaza’s population, including 609,700 children – seek shelter in…

Health Care Functioning and Access A public health catastrophe is rapidly evolving in Gaza with high levels of violent deaths and injuries, mass displacement, overcrowding, major disruption and dysfunction of the health system, and damage to water…

SITUATION OVERVIEW On 7 October 2023, Palestinian armed groups in Gaza launched “Operation Al-Aqsa Flood”, injuring, killing, and capturing many Israeli forces and civilians. In response, the Israeli authorities declared a state of war and began a…

Highlights • Voice call services were gradually restored to most of Gaza during the evening of 19 January, having been shut down for one week since 12 January. However, internet connectivity remains down across the whole of…

HIGHLIGHTS As the Gaza Strip slides towards famine and the risk of disease mounts, WFP, along with other humanitarian agencies, is calling for the lifting of barriers and restrictions on aid delivery to and within Gaza, and…

Highlights: Children in the Gaza Strip continue to face the 'triple threat’ of conflict, disease, and malnutrition. Their life conditions are further challenged by the cold winter. More than 152,000 cases of diarrhoea have been reported since mid-October…

Statement by Jorge Moreira da Silva, UN Under-Secretary-General and UNOPS Executive Director, following his visit to Gaza. Today, I visited Al-Arish (Egypt) and Gaza with my colleague Sigrid Kaag, new Senior Humanitarian and Reconstruction Coordinator for Gaza. UNOPS…

In 2023, the EU and its Member States retained their position as one of the largest global humanitarian donors. Over the past 12 months the international community has focused on the rising number of people at risk…

Highlights • As of 17 January, telecommunications services in Gaza have remained shut down for the fifth consecutive day, since 12 January. This is the seventh time that communications have stopped working since the onset of conflict…

BACKGROUND Humanitarian needs in Gaza have seen a staggering increase since the escalation of the conflict on 7 October 2023, which has resulted in the cessation of electricity, food, water, and fuel supplies, as well as restricted access…