Reports

Highlights Cessation of hostilities is urgently needed. Numbers of displaced people is getting close to 200,000. Large destruction of productive assets of farmers, breeders and fishers. Food assistance and livestock feeding require urgent funds. Key figure Figures are rapidly increasing due to…

On 7 July UNRWA declared an emergency in all five areas of the Gaza Strip in response to escalating violence between Israel and Hamas. Since then, civilian displacement and fatalities have risen sharply. The total number…

Crisis Overview Operation Protective Edge, launched by Israel against Hamas on 8 July, is now in its third week. In addition to maritime and air strikes, a ground incursion was launched on 18 July and is now…

One Palestinian child has been killed every hour over the last two days. The shocking number of children being killed, injured, or displaced in Gaza demands an unequivocal international response to stop the bloodshed, Save the…

July 23, 2014. Gaza’s sole power plant suffered a direct hit in ongoing hostilities in the Strip yesterday and today. One of the offices at the plant and two of the plant’s turbines were damaged. The…

Yesterday marked two weeks since UNRWA declared an emergency in all five areas of the Gaza Strip in response to escalating violence between Israel and Hamas. Since then, civilian displacement and fatalities have risen sharply. The…

Highlights According to preliminary information, at least 697 Palestinians, including at least 518 civilians, are reported to have been killed. This includes 170 children and 86 women, Intense overcrowding in shelters raises increasing concerns, as mass displacement continues:…

Highlights On 24 July, WFP reached over 160,000 conflictaffected people in Gaza with emergency food assistance, an increase of 50,000 people in just two days. This is in addition to the 285,000 people WFP reaches regularly with…

Highlights Cessation of hostilities is urgently needed. Numbers of displaced people is getting close to 200,000. Loos of productive assets of farmers, breeders and fishers are huge. Food assistance and livestock feeding require urgent funds. Key figure More than 167,000 people are…

Note: This article was originally published on July 23 and updated on July 29 to reflect the latest figures of those displaced inside Gaza and Mercy Corps' ongoing response. Mercy Corps's emergency response in Gaza continues to…