Humanitarian Situation Update #290 | Gaza Strip

Key Highlights

  • The UN Human Rights Office warns that there is an escalating pattern of strikes on tents, residential buildings and crowded hospitals and a methodical destruction of entire neighbourhoods.

  • Humanitarian organizations warn of acute levels of hunger, a sharp decline in dietary diversity, and a higher proportion of children diagnosed with acute malnutrition, while less than 300,000 daily meals are now prepared in community kitchens.

  • About 29 per cent of Gaza’s population have been displaced again in the past month, including over 161,000 people displaced in one week, with no safe place to go.

  • About 81 per cent of the Gaza Strip’s territory now falls within Israeli-militarized zones or has been placed under displacement orders.

  • At night on 21 May, about 90 truckloads of goods were collected by humanitarian organizations from Kerem Shalom crossing for distribution inside Gaza.

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