News Monitor
MSF teams, with the MoH, have quickly opened a field hospital and started receiving patients amid a severe lack of supplies and resources. Field hospitals are not a solution, but a last resort.
Ten months into the war, Gazans are crowded into an ever-shrinking space without adequate sanitation or healthcare and are repeatedly uprooted by evacuation orders that also disrupt the aid centres.
During August alone, the Israeli forces have issued 12 evacuation orders – on average, once every two days – forcing as many as 250,000 people to move yet again.
Ceasefire needed to allow life-saving polio vaccinations to be administered to about 640,000 children under 10 after confirmation of the first case of polio in Gaza in 25 years, with reports of more.
Approximately 213,000 Palestinians have been affected by nine evacuation orders since the beginning of August. In total, 86% of the Gaza Strip has come under evacuation orders since 7 October.
Two rounds of a polio vaccination campaign are expected to be launched at the end of August and September 2024 across the Gaza Strip to prevent the spread of circulating variant type 2 poliovirus.
IHL is very clear on the importance of the protection of civilians and civilian infrastructure. Our Office has documented serious violations by both the Israeli military and Palestinian armed groups.
IHL is very clear on the importance of the protection of civilians and civilian infrastructure. Our Office has documented serious violations by both the Israeli military and Palestinian armed groups.
WHO and UNICEF also expressed concern about any delays in the delivery of the polio vaccine and vital cold chain equipment amid ongoing heavy fighting and insecurity in the enclave.
OHCHR condemns the surging strikes on schools where forcibly displaced Palestinians have sought shelter, conducted with apparent disregard for the high rate of civilian fatalities.
"The life of a child in Gaza, in month ten of this conflict, is not a life. We cannot say it enough – there is no safe place, and everything is running out – food, water, fuel, medicines. Everything."
Strikes on more than 17 schools last month reportedly killed at least 163 Palestinians, suggesting a failure to comply with the principles of distinction when carrying out military operations.
WHO spokesperson said a ceasefire would be “the best” solution, before calling at the very least for the enclave’s roads to be kept clear and for safe access for medical and other relief supplies.