Humanitarian Situation Report. August 7 ,2026
Highlights
In the West Bank, demolitions displaced 22 people and affected over 100 others in one week. Since 2024, the monthly average of structures demolished in Area C and East Jerusalem has been at least twice the average recorded over the preceding 15 years.
Demolition proceedings affecting four schools in Area C, including the demolition of three school structures in Masafer Yatta, highlight broader risks to education. Overall, 84 schools serving nearly 13,000 students are subject to demolition orders.
The Israeli military issued orders extending movement restrictions in Jenin, Tulkarm and Nur Shams refugee camps until 20 August and 30 September, while more than 33,000 displaced Palestine refugees remain unable to return to their homes.
In Gaza, the humanitarian situation remains critical, amid intense military activity causing civilian casualties and hitting health and education infrastructure; overall structural damage continues to rise, a new assessment shows.
Since October 2023, partners have conducted 3,199 assessment missions across Gaza to identify and mark explosive hazards, while constantly informing civilians about the risks. Yet, they still lack authorization to move or safely dispose of these hazardous items.
A new nutrition survey finds maternal malnutrition, persistent stunting, and poor-quality diets among children.
Overview
Humanitarian needs across the Occupied Palestinian Territory remained severe. In Gaza, military activities, displacement, and damage to civilian infrastructure continued to deepen humanitarian needs. In the West Bank, operations by Israeli forces, settler attacks, demolitions and movement restrictions continued to drive displacement, undermine livelihoods and restrict access to essential services.
Across the Occupied Palestinian Territory, civilians continued to face heightened protection risks, repeated displacement, damage to civilian infrastructure, and disruptions to essential services, including health care, education and water supply. Humanitarian partners continued to deliver life-saving assistance despite insecurity, movement restrictions and funding constraints, responding to growing needs through food, health, water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH), shelter, protection, education and other essential services.
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Explosive ordnance disposal officers inspecting an agricultural field in Sheikh Ajleen area for potential hazards. Photo by UNMAS
Jewish terrorists have become 'sovereign' in the West Bank, Ynet analyst says
via the Middle East Monitor
Jewish extremists and terrorists have effectively become “the sovereign” in the occupied West Bank, while the Israeli army protects their illegal activities and serves the political interests of the far-right government, a veteran Israeli military analyst has warned.
Writing for Israel’s Ynet news site, Ron Ben-Yishai said that the Israel Defence Forces (IDF), police and Shin Bet internal security agency are no longer capable of enforcing the law against violent settlers.
“The IDF has lost control of the extremists among the settlers and has become a security company for their whims and illegal actions,” Ben-Yishai concluded. He described the situation in which the army protects “Jewish extremists and terrorists” as intolerable.
The extraordinary assessment followed an investigation into a deadly confrontation in the Palestinian village of Tell, near Nablus, last month.
Initial Israeli reports described the incident as a Palestinian “terror attack”. However, Ben-Yishai rejected that account, saying the violence began after dozens of armed Israeli settlers entered the Palestinian village.
Palestinian residents moved to expel the Israeli terror group. During the ensuing struggle, a Palestinian man wrested a rifle from a member of the Havat Gilad settlement security team and opened fire.
Ben-Yishai said that the Palestinian man manage to snatch the weapon “Only after the IDF removed the weapon strap from his back and neck and swung it”.
Israeli reserve soldier Benayahu Mellet and Israeli army officer Major Yuval Ezra were killed. Four Palestinians were also killed in the exchange of fire.
Ben-Yishai stressed that the Palestinians had not arrived armed and that there was no evidence of a planned attack. The violence, he argued, escalated only after the Israeli terror group entered the village despite knowing that the army would probably have refused to approve their excursion.
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Israeli settlers raid the Old City of Hebron under the protection of Israeli security forces in the West Bank, Palestine on May 9, 2026. (Mamoun Wazwaz- Anatolu Agency)
