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.