18 March 2026

In Gaza, the Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ and its partners continue to deliver critical assistance, despite shrinking supplies due to increased restrictions since the regional escalation began.

Yesterday, the Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ Office for Project Services successfully collected?more than 400,000?liters?of fuel, while the Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ and partners working in water, sanitation and hygiene collected seven truckloads of supplies from Kerem Shalom, which remains the only operational crossing into Gaza.

While the recent Israeli announcement that Rafah will reopen has not yet been implemented, the Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ stands ready to resume medical evacuations and support people returning to Gaza as soon as these movements are allowed again. The Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ will continue to call for more crossings to open for cargo.

Despite the limited supplies, over the past week, partners leading on shelter delivered to more than 2,200 families ¨C over 11,000 people ¨C across Gaza. These supplies included emergency shelter kits, which include rope, nails, measuring tape, pots, pans and plates.

However, humanitarians say that stocks of tents, bedding items, and other essential supplies are depleting rapidly. Some partners have turned to the local market to buy what they can ¨C clothing, bedding, basic kitchen items ¨C directly from vendors whose own capacity is already stretched thin. This is not a sustainable solution, as both the humanitarian and the commercial sectors are subject to the same bottleneck at Kerem Shalom.

OCHA and its humanitarian partners continue to call for safe, unhindered humanitarian access to ensure that those in need receive the support they urgently need.