Reports

Humanitarian aid is a lifeline but cannot singlehandedly end suffering, warns Islamic Relief. Islamic Relief is highlighting the plight of Palestinians who are being pushed to the edge by the Covid-19 pandemic, adding to the pressures created…

Jerusalem – The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) welcomed a €400,000 contribution from Spain to provide much-needed food assistance to more than 34,000 vulnerable Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, most of them women and children. The…

HIGHLIGHTS • Unprecedented surge in COVID-19; active cases double in the oPt, triple in Gaza. • Cumulative total of COVID-19 cases surpasses 100,000, with some 80,000 recoveries. • Another 178 people die, including 62 in Gaza. SITUATION OVERVIEW The reporting period…

Chad On 24 November, rising water levels forced close to 4,000 people (3,546 from Barkalam, Liwa subprefecture; 355 from Yarom, Ngouboua subprefecture) to flee their homes. They are staying in the Djourougafi and Ngolio displacement sites in…

The Gaza Protection Consortium The ‘My Choice’ programme, implemented by the Gaza Protection Consortium (GPC) and the World Food Programme (WFP), will distribute multi-purpose cash assistance (MPCA) to 1,499 poor refugee households and up to 1,144 poor…

338,981 people assisted In October 2020 US$3.7 m cash-based transfers made 364 mt of food distributed US$28.1 m six months (Nov 2020 – April 2021) net funding requirements Operational Updates In October, WFP provided food assistance through Cash Based Transfers (CBT)…

HIGHLIGHTS Active COVID-19 cases continue to rise; 103 more people die. Gaza accounts for 39 per cent of active cases and recorded another 19 fatalities. 121,000 Palestinians lost their jobs in the second quarter of 2020, according to the…

Introduction The decades-long situation in Palestine* has led to a deteriorating humanitarian crisis. Palestinians in the West Bank live in an increasingly coercive environment. As Israeli settlement activity increases, Palestinians are prevented from developing adequate housing and…

Madame President, Members of the Security Council, Allow me first to extend my deepest condolences for their profound loss to the family of former Palestinian Chief Negotiator and Secretary General of the PLO, Dr. Saeb Erekat, to the…

Covid-19 crisis: monthly incomes in Gaza have fallen by almost 90 per cent, research finds The monthly income of workers in Gaza has fallen by almost 90 percent since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic and tens…