Saturday, October 7, 2023

General area updates:

  • At 06:30 on the morning of 7 October 2023, Hamas launched ¡°Operation Al-Aqsa Flood¡± with more than 5,000 rockets reportedly fired towards Israel from multiple locations in Gaza, as well as ground operation into Israel.
  • In response to this attack, Israeli authorities declared that the country is in a state of war and called up military reservists. At 12:00 noon, the Israeli Forces launched operation ¡®Iron Sword¡¯ with strikes on the Gaza strip by air, land and sea.
  • As of 21:00, the Ministry of Health in Gaza reported 232 killed and 1,697 injuries. Two boys, both Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµRWA students at Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµRWA schools in Khan Younis and Beit Hanoun, are confirmed to be among those killed.
  • According to different sources, between 150-200 Israelis have been reportedly killed.
  • By 18:00, at least 20,363 Internally Displaced People were sheltering in 44 Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµRWA schools in all areas in the Gaza Strip, except Khan Younis. Of those, 28 are Designated Emergency Shelters and 16 are not.
  • Three Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµRWA schools were affected by collateral damages caused by Israeli Armed Forces (IAF) airstrikes.

??Health services provision

  • All Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµRWA 22 Health Centres are closed.
  • Emergency health-care services are available exclusively through the toll-free hotline (1-800-444-666).
  • Primary health-care services are planned to resume with a limited number of staff as of tomorrow, 8 October.

Sanitation services provision?

  • All solid waste collection and transfer to landfills put on hold.
  • The operation of water wells was stopped around 09:30am on 7 October.
  • Water wells operations are planned to resume tomorrow in Jabalia, Khan Younis and Rafah.

Relief and Social Services?

  • Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµRWA food distribution is on hold as of today until further notice, disrupting the third food distribution cycle. ?All 14 Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµRWA Food Distribution Centres are closed. A total of 112,759 families (541,640 individuals) are yet to receive food assistance.
  • Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµRWA Relief and Social Services Helplines will be operational as of tomorrow, Sunday 8 October.

?General Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµRWA operations?

  • All staff movement is restricted.
  • Food and non-food items are prepositioned in the sub-stores across the five areas in Gaza and the main warehouses.
  • Information to be shared with communities on Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµRWA services. Social media content put out already on the emergency health-care services through the toll-free hotline.

Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµRWA Installations?

  • Shrapnel was found in one school?in Jabalia camp in the northern area.
  • Two schools, one in Jabalia camp?(northern area) and one in the city of Gaza, were affected by collateral damage due to Israeli Air Force airstrikes.