Tuesday, October 17, 2023

16 October 2023?as of?18:00?(Day 9)??


  • Heavy Israeli?¹ó´Ç°ù³¦±ð²õ¡¯?bombardments, from the air,?sea?and land, have continued.?
  • Israeli Air Forces continued?to strike?also in Khan Younis and other southern areas despite?the?directive for people?in Gaza?to move south.??
  • Water?remains?a key issue as people will start dying without water.

  • Concerns over dehydration and waterborne diseases?are?high given the collapse of water and sanitation services, including today¡¯s shutdown of Gaza¡¯s?last functioning seawater desalination plant.?
  • One line of water was opened today?for three hours?only?in the South?of the Gaza Strip, feeding limited water to only half of the population of Khan Yunis (nearly 100,000?people).?This does not solve the urgent water?needs??in?other parts of Khan Yunis, the Middle Area and Rafah. ?Only 14?per cent?of the population in the Strip?benefited?from this three-hour?opening of the water line.
  • 600,000?litres?of fuel are needed in Gaza per day to?operate?water and desalinization plants.?Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµRWA moved (on?16 October) some of its existing -but very limited- fuel supplies that it already had inside Gaza.
  • Fuel reserves at all hospitals across Gaza are expected to last for an?additional?24 hours?only.?The shutdown of backup generators would place the lives of thousands of patients at serious risk.?
  • In nine days of conflict,?according to the Palestinian Ministry of Health,?2,670 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza?(an average of 267 per day, or 11 every hour) and?9,600 are injured.?
  • In Israel,?1,300?people were killed?and at least?4,121?were injured?according to?different sources.?
  • 14?Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµRWA staff members have sadly?been killed since 7 October. These are confirmed reports, but the number is likely to be higher.??

  • 24 confirmed reports?of?Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµRWA installations?across the Gaza Strip?impacted?as a result of?airstrikes?and bombardment. The actual number is likely to be higher.???
  • Estimates that 1 million people have been displaced across the Gaza Strip. Some?600,000?in the Middle Area, Khan Yunis and Rafah, of?those?nearly 400,000?are in Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµRWA installations.???
  • Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµRWA Rafah Logistics?Base?is now hosting?nearly?8,000?people and?the?numbers continue to increase. Tensions there are?very high.??
  • Despite the Israeli Forces¡¯ evacuation order, an?unknown number of?internally displaced?remain in Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµRWA schools in the north.?Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµRWA is no?longer able to?assist?or protect?the?displaced?in?those areas?and does not have information on their needs and conditions.?
  • Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµRWA is running eight?Primary?Health?Clinics in?the middle and southern areas.?
  • Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµRWA is likely to run out of medicines in its health clinics in the coming month.?In some?clinics, supplies are likely to?run out sooner, due to difficulties with transporting supplies from one location to another.
  • Intensive?high?level?advocacy efforts are being made by Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµRWA and the Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ?to allow?critical?humanitarian supplies?into the Gaza Strip.?
  • In the West Bank, significant?access?and movements?restrictions?and increasing?settler violence?continue.?According to OCHA,?58?Palestinians have been killed?and 1,176 injured?since 7?October.?

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