Reports

Highlights • The first fatality from COVID-19 in the oPt recorded in the West Bank on 25 March. • Further social and movement restrictions introduced in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. • The Humanitarian Country Team (HCT) Response…

Prepared by the Humanitarian Country Team SUMMARY The COVID-19 Response Plan for the occupied Palestinian territory (oPt) presents the joint strategy of the humanitarian community, including UNRWA, to respond to the public health needs and immediate humanitarian consequences…

This morning, Thursday, 26 March 2020, at around 7:30 am, officials from Israel’s Civil Administration in the West Bank arrived with a military jeep escort, a bulldozer and two flatbed trucks with cranes at the Palestinian…

While the coronavirus continues to spread rapidly in Europe, the Middle East registered its first cases in early March. As of today, 59 cases of the novel coronavirus were recorded in the occupied Palestinian territory (Gaza…

Qatar Charity has distributed 395 gas heaters to the families of orphans and needy families in the various governorates of the West Bank, while the bread distribution project is underway in the Gaza Strip. The aid comes…

March 7th, 2020 ― Doha: Qatar Red Crescent Society (QRCS) has completed a project to provide food and winterization aid for 2,815 poor Palestinian families (or over 14,000 persons), under its “Benevolence Is Mercy” Warm Winter…

Qatar Charity (QC), through its office in the Gaza Strip, has distributed blankets and nylon roof covers to 639 poor families from all over Gaza, in cooperation with the Ministry of Social Development. Some 523 families were…

Rizq and his family have been living in a shelter made of metal sheets since their home was destroyed in the 2014 conflict in Gaza. This winter, as temperatures plummet below five degrees Celsius, Rizq’s family…

(Jerusalem - 11/2/2020): PRCS distributed today relief items to families affected by the latest bad weather episode which hit Nabi Samwil, a Palestinian village close to Jerusalem but isolated from the city by the Annexation Wall. The…

A. Situation analysis Description of the disaster Extreme weather conditions have hit the West Bank and Gaza Strip starting on Saturday 18/1/2020 including heavy rain floods, winds, and low-temperature cold wave. The heavy rain generated floods in several…