Humanitarian Situation Update #176 | Gaza Strip

Key Highlights

  • The UN Human Rights Office reports that the airstrike on a UN school in An Nuseirat Refugee Camp suggests a failure of the Israeli military to ensure strict compliance with International Humanitarian Law.   

  • Al Aqsa Hospital in Deir al Balah is overwhelmed with patients and one of its two generators went out of service.  

  • All medical evacuations outside of Gaza continue to be suspended since 7 May.  

  • Nine out of 10 children in Gaza are experiencing severe food poverty, UNICEF reports.

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A Palestinian displaced woman in a refugee camp in Rafah city. Photo by WHO

Israel reduces water supply to Bethlehem, Hebron 7 Comments

Rights groups have long accused Israel of imposing “water apartheid” upon Palestinians living in the occupied Palestinian Territories (OPT). This “constitutes a systematic attack on the Palestinian people’s right to water and sanitation, that actively endangers the health of Palestinians and holds the Palestinian economy captive to corporations who exploit this market for commercial profit,” Al-Haq said in a 2022 report.

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Humanitarian Situation Update #175 | West Bank

Key Highlights

  • More than 500 Palestinians and 12 Israelis have been killed in the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, since 7 October.  

  • About 280 olive and fig trees and 580 grape vine trees were vandalized by Israeli settlers in seven communities across the West Bank during the week-long reporting period. 

  • A Palestinian family in the Batn Al Hawa area of Silwan, in East Jerusalem, faces the risk of imminent forced displacement after the Israeli Supreme Court rejected their appeal against eviction.  

  • The DCO checkpoint, one of the main entrances to Ramallah and Al Bireh cities, was re-opened for the first time in eight months.

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This was the home of a family in the Ras al ‘Amud area of East Jerusalem. The family was forced to demolish it following orders by Israeli authorities citing lack of a building permit, which is rarely granted for Palestinians. Photo by OCHA