{"id":289635,"date":"2023-10-16T08:37:24","date_gmt":"2023-10-16T12:37:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/?post_type=document&#038;p=289635"},"modified":"2023-10-16T08:41:02","modified_gmt":"2023-10-16T12:41:02","slug":"unrwa-situation-report-6-on-the-gaza-strip-the-west-bank","status":"publish","type":"document","link":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/document\/unrwa-situation-report-6-on-the-gaza-strip-the-west-bank\/","title":{"rendered":"Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵRWA Situation Report #6 on the Gaza Strip &amp; the West Bank"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.unrwa.org\/ar\/resources\/reports\/%D8%AA%D9%82%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%B1-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%A3%D9%88%D9%86%D8%B1%D9%88%D8%A7-%D8%B1%D9%82%D9%85-6-%D8%AD%D9%88%D9%84-%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%88%D8%B6%D8%B9-%D9%81%D9%8A-%D9%82%D8%B7%D8%A7%D8%B9-%D8%BA%D8%B2%D8%A9-%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B6%D9%81%D8%A9-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%BA%D8%B1%D8%A8%D9%8A%D8%A9\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Arabic\/\u0627\u0644\u0639\u0631\u0628\u064a\u0629<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Monday, October 16, 2023<\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">15 October 2023\u00a0as of\u00a020:00\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Heavy Israeli Forces\u2019 bombardments of the Gaza Strip have continued, from the air, sea and land.<\/li>\n<li>Civilians continue to flee to the southern areas following the Israeli Authorities\u2019 warning to evacuate northern areas.<\/li>\n<li>Advocacy continues at the highest levels for humanitarian access for pre-positioned critical supplies to cross into Gaza through Rafah, including food, water, medical supplies, fuel and non-food items.<\/li>\n<li>Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵRWA continues to advocate for international humanitarian law and the protection of civilians to be respected.<\/li>\n<li>According to Palestinian Ministry of Health and open sources, in nine days,\u00a0<b><strong>2,329 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza<\/strong><\/b>\u00a0(an average of 259 per day, or 11 every hour).\u202fThe number of people killed in Israel has reached 1,300 and at least 3,621 wounded.<\/li>\n<li>The above numbers are for background only. Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵRWA has not been able to verify.<\/li>\n<li><b><strong>14 Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵRWA staff members have been killed<\/strong><\/b>. These are confirmed reports, but the number is likely higher.<\/li>\n<li><b><strong>23 confirmed reports<\/strong><\/b>\u00a0of\u00a0<b><strong>Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵRWA installations<\/strong><\/b>\u00a0across the Gaza Strip have been impacted as a result of airstrikes but the total number is likely to be higher.<\/li>\n<li>Over one million people \u2013 almost half the total population of Gaza &#8211; have been displaced. Some\u00a0<b><strong>600,000 Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) are\u00a0<\/strong><\/b>in the Middle Area, Khan Yunis and Rafah, of those, nearly\u00a0<b><strong>400,000\u00a0<\/strong><\/b>are in Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵRWA facilities &#8211; much exceeding our capacity to assist in any meaningful way, including with space in our shelters, food, water or psychological support.<\/li>\n<li><span data-ccp-charstyle=\"normaltextrun\" data-ccp-charstyle-defn=\"{&quot;ObjectId&quot;:&quot;c6e20f7a-84f2-4961-a063-eb3d58a303a0|12&quot;,&quot;ClassId&quot;:1073872969,&quot;Properties&quot;:[469775450,&quot;normaltextrun&quot;,201340122,&quot;1&quot;,134233614,&quot;true&quot;,469778129,&quot;normaltextrun&quot;,335572020,&quot;1&quot;,469778324,&quot;Default Paragraph Font&quot;]}\">Despite the\u00a0Israeli Forces\u2019\u00a0evacuation order, an\u00a0<\/span><b><strong><span data-contrast=\"auto\">unknown number of IDPs\u00a0remain in Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵRWA schools in\u00a0Gaza\u00a0city and\u00a0the North. Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵRWA is no longer able to\u00a0assist\u00a0or protect\u00a0them<\/span><\/strong><\/b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">.\u00a0Over\u00a0160,000 IDPs were sheltering in\u00a057\u00a0Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵRWA premises,\u00a0including\u2014but not only\u2014Designated Emergency Shelters\u00a0in\u00a0these areas\u00a0at the time of the Israeli evacuation order.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li>The number of killed is increasing. There are not enough body-bags for the dead in Gaza.<\/li>\n<li>Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵRWA in Gaza found some water in local shops, but rations are still down to one litre of water per person per day for the Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵRWA teams in the Rafah logistics base (to cover drinking and all other needs).<\/li>\n<li>People across Gaza have severely limited access to clean drinking water. As a last resort, people are consuming brackish water from agricultural wells, triggering serious concerns over the spread of waterborne diseases.<\/li>\n<li>For the fifth consecutive day, Gaza has had no electricity, pushing vital services, including health, water and sanitation to the brink of collapse, and worsening food insecurity.<\/li>\n<li>Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵRWA has sent an\u00a0<b><strong>advance team<\/strong><\/b>\u00a0to Egypt to prepare for the possible opening of a humanitarian corridor to bring humanitarian aid supplies into the Strip.<\/li>\n<li>As of 15 October, eight\u00a0<b><strong>Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵRWA health centres<\/strong><\/b>\u00a0were operational across Gaza providing primary health-care services, with estimated supplies of less than one month.<\/li>\n<li>According to the health cluster, there are a total of 3,500 hospital beds in Gaza. Evacuation orders apply to 23 hospitals in Gaza and north Gaza, with capacity of 2,000 beds.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b><strong>The West Bank (including East Jerusalem)<\/strong><\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>As of Sunday, the Palestinian Ministry of Health reported 54 people killed in the West Bank, including East Jerusalem and more than 1,100 injured, since Saturday 7 October. This number is the highest recorded number of Palestinians killed in a single one week since 2017. \u202fMost of those were killed on Friday, 13 October when Palestinian factions called for a day of protests.<\/li>\n<li>Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵRWA continues to run its operations in the West Bank, including schools and health centres, and waste collection in refugee camps.<\/li>\n<li>Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵRWA staff continue to face severe access and movement restrictions, due to closures, checkpoints and road blockages by the Israeli Forces.<\/li>\n<li>Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵRWA staff are unable to travel to their place of work, unless it is in the immediate vicinity.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b><strong><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Other:\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/strong><\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li data-aria-level=\"1\" data-aria-posinset=\"1\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-leveltext=\"\uf0b7\" data-list-defn-props=\"{&quot;335552541&quot;:1,&quot;335559684&quot;:-2,&quot;335559685&quot;:720,&quot;335559991&quot;:360,&quot;469769226&quot;:&quot;Symbol&quot;,&quot;469769242&quot;:[8226],&quot;469777803&quot;:&quot;left&quot;,&quot;469777804&quot;:&quot;\uf0b7&quot;,&quot;469777815&quot;:&quot;multilevel&quot;}\" data-listid=\"26\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">The Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵRWA Commissioner-General gave a press conference in East Jerusalem. His remarks are available <a href=\"https:\/\/www.unrwa.org\/newsroom\/official-statements\/unrwa-commissioner-general-philippe-lazzarini%E2%80%AF-remarks%E2%80%AF-situation-gaza-strip\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Arabic\/\u0627\u0644\u0639\u0631\u0628\u064a\u0629 Monday, October 16, 2023 15 October 2023\u00a0as of\u00a020:00\u00a0 Heavy Israeli Forces\u2019 bombardments of the Gaza Strip have continued, from the air, sea and land. Civilians continue to flee to the southern areas following the Israeli Authorities\u2019 warning to evacuate northern areas. Advocacy continues at the highest levels for humanitarian access for pre-positioned critical <a href=\"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/document\/unrwa-situation-report-6-on-the-gaza-strip-the-west-bank\/\"> [&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":285,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"country":[],"document-category":[2929],"document-source":[1817],"committee-meeting":[],"document-subject":[1769,1945,1829,2033,2057,2005,2533,5200,2309,1745,2097,6245,2273,6251],"entity":[1729],"document-language":[],"class_list":["post-289635","document","type-document","status-publish","hentry","document-category-situation-report","document-source-united-nations-relief-and-works-agency-for-palestine-refugees-in-the-near-east-unrwa","document-subject-armed-conflict","document-subject-assistance","document-subject-casualties","document-subject-children","document-subject-food","document-subject-gaza-strip","document-subject-health","document-subject-humanitarian-relief","document-subject-protection","document-subject-refugees-and-displaced-persons","document-subject-social-issues","document-subject-violence","document-subject-water","document-subject-west-bank","entity-united-nations-system"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document\/289635","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/document"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/285"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document\/289635\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":289636,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document\/289635\/revisions\/289636"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=289635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"country","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/country?post=289635"},{"taxonomy":"document-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-category?post=289635"},{"taxonomy":"document-source","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-source?post=289635"},{"taxonomy":"committee-meeting","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/committee-meeting?post=289635"},{"taxonomy":"document-subject","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-subject?post=289635"},{"taxonomy":"entity","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/entity?post=289635"},{"taxonomy":"document-language","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-language?post=289635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}