UNRWA Report on the Humanitarian Crisis in the Gaza Strip and the occupied West Bank

The occupied West Bank including East Jerusalem

  • In the early hours of 25 January, what remained of the UNRWA headquarters compound in East Jerusalem caught fire. This followed the large-scale demolition of structures inside the compound by Israeli authorities on 20 January, which was widely condemned by the international community.

  • On 27 January, water and electricity supplies were cut to UNRWA facilities inside Shu’fat Camp, which is the only refugee camp within what the State of Israel considers as the municipal boundary of East Jerusalem. With more than 16,000 registered Palestine Refugees residing in the camp, this marks the latest instalment in the implementation of anti-UNRWA laws by Israeli authorities, in breach of rulings by the International Court of Justice.

|    The Gaza Strip

  • Despite the ceasefire, UN partners continue to report significant military activities including killing of civilians in Israeli aerial attacks, shelling, and gunfire across all five governorates of the Gaza Strip, including incidents both far from and in the vicinity of the “Yellow Line”. According to the Ministry of Health (MoH) as reported by OHCHR, 477 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli attacks in Gaza since the ceasefire began in October 2025.

  • According to WFP’s latest Market Monitor (December 2025), while Gazan household consumption patterns improved in December, one in four households are reported to consume only one meal a day.

  • According to UNICEF, for the first time in more than two years, nearly 5,170 recreational kits comprising notebooks, pencils, erasers, and crayons, entered Gaza and will support the learning of more than 375,000 children.

  • According to the MoH, at least nine children have died of hypothermia in Gaza this winter. UNRWA calls for urgent solutions including allowing the entry of batteries, solar panels, and other energy sources that are needed to set up communal heating spaces.

  • By 25 January, UNRWA had vaccinated 2,087 children during the 10-day vaccination campaign carried out in coordination with the Ministry of Health, WHO, and UNICEF. UNRWA is participating through 23 health facilities and 35 medical teams.

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UNRWA health teams, participating in the second joint catch-up immunization campaign in the Gaza Strip. Jan. 2026 UNRAW photo

Olga Cherevko Showed the World What's Happening in Gaza. Israel Won't Let Her Return

"The depth of human suffering that I saw in Gaza City," she says, "is really just beyond my imagination. In any other place, if you have legs or even if you don't have legs and somebody can carry you, you can usually run and find a place that is safer," she says. In Gaza, however, there is nowhere to run. There is no place the war hasn't touched – it's simply everywhere.

Read the article here.

Because they don't want the truth to reach millions...

Middle East Monitor 

An Israeli government representative told the Supreme Court on Monday that opening the Rafah crossing does not necessarily mean journalists will be allowed to enter the Gaza Strip, arguing that their entry still poses a security risk.

The Israeli Supreme Court was hearing a petition filed by the Foreign Press Association in Israel, which is demanding that journalists be allowed into Gaza to report on the situation on the ground.

According to the Israeli newspaper Haaretz, the government representative said allowing entry could expose journalists to security dangers, without giving further details.

Judge Ruth Ronen responded that “simply referring to security risks without defining them is not enough,” adding that there has been a major change in the reality on the ground.

The panel of judges decided to hear the Israeli army’s position in a closed session.

This is the second petition of its kind. The court rejected the first one when the war began.

The Foreign Press Association submitted the current petition a year and four months ago, but the court repeatedly approved Israel’s requests to delay its response.

In early January, the Israeli authorities told the Supreme Court that the ban on foreign journalists entering the Gaza Strip should remain in place, according to a memorandum submitted by the Attorney General’s Office on behalf of the government.

https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20260127-israel-says.../