News Monitor
The new orders have obstructed agencies from providing necessities such as health services, clean water, food and nutrition services, taking away the remaining lifelines for the civilian population.
The price of vegetables in northern Gaza has reached exorbitant levels, according to new analysis by Christian Aid, amid warnings that there is a high risk of famine across the territory.
More than 80 per cent of required food aid does not make it into Gaza. Fifteen aid organizations demand international pressure for an immediate ceasefire and arms embargo.
Economic crisis worsens in occupied Palestinian territory amid ongoing Gaza conflict - UNCTAD report
The new report highlights the staggering scale of economic devastation and unprecedented decline in economic activity, far surpassing the impact of all previous military confrontations in 2008, 2012, 2014 and 2021.
At least one quarter or 22,500 of those injured in Gaza by 23 July are estimated to have life-changing injuries that require rehabilitation services now and for years to come, according to WHO.
The first graders join 625,000 children who have already been denied an entire school year, and with the conflict still ongoing, face the high risk of a second year without education.
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 â on average, once every two days â 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.