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10 February 2026<\/p>\n
OCHA has received reports that airstrikes, bombing, shelling, navy fire and shooting in Gaza in the past\u00a024 hours \u2013 this includes\u00a0strikes in residential areas, which puts\u00a0civilians in danger and adds to the\u00a0immense hardship they have endured\u00a0over the past\u00a028 months.<\/p>\n
OCHA stresses that civilians are protected under international humanitarian law wherever they are, even if they cross military demarcation lines or are near them \u2013 civilians and civilian infrastructure must always be\u202fprotected and during military operations, constant care must be taken to spare them.<\/p>\n
Today, Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵRWA\u00a0reported<\/a><\/em> that its teams on the ground have reopened the Bureij Health Centre in Deir al Balah, restoring essential services after months of closure. The facility is now providing primary health care, maternal health services, laboratory testing and dental care.<\/p>\n However, health partners say that thousands of patients remain without opportunities for treatment and recovery, as some critical services are still unavailable in Gaza. Their top priority is to scale up local services, including by rehabilitating damaged facilities and expanding critical care. This requires more medical supplies, including items that are not easily approved for entry by Israeli authorities, such as X-ray machines and laboratory equipment.<\/p>\n Shelter partners say that by last week, they had provided more than 5,600 families with emergency shelter, including nearly 5,000 tarpaulins and over 12,000 bedding items, in just over one week. Last month, they provided this type of assistance, including nearly 8,000 tents, to more than 85,000 families. However, they stress that more durable solutions are urgently needed and this requires permission to take in machinery and materials to repair damaged structures.<\/p>\n Also, by last week, protection partners had reached\u00a0nearly 15,000\u00a0people with services including psychosocial support\u202fover a seven-day period.\u00a0Across all governorates,\u00a0the demand for\u00a0such services\u00a0continues to outpace available capacity. Overcrowding in displacement sites, loss or damage of tents, and lack of private spaces,\u00a0continue to undermine\u00a0service delivery and confidentiality.<\/p>\n The Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ and partners stand ready to further scale up\u00a0humanitarian operations. However,\u00a0this\u00a0requires\u00a0the lifting of\u00a0restrictions on\u00a0humanitarian work. Humanitarian partners \u2013 NGOs as well as Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ agencies \u2013 must be allowed to\u00a0operate\u00a0without obstruction and bring in critically needed\u00a0supplies and equipment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" 10 February 2026 OCHA has received reports that airstrikes, bombing, shelling, navy fire and shooting in Gaza in the past\u00a024 hours \u2013 this includes\u00a0strikes in residential areas, which puts\u00a0civilians in danger and adds to the\u00a0immense hardship they have endured\u00a0over the past\u00a028 months. OCHA stresses that civilians are protected under international humanitarian law wherever they […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":299,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"country":[],"document-category":[1329],"document-source":[2169],"committee-meeting":[],"document-subject":[2005,2533,5200,1745],"entity":[1729],"document-language":[6542],"class_list":["post-315788","document","type-document","status-publish","hentry","document-category-press-release","document-source-office-for-the-coordination-of-humanitarian-affairs-ocha","document-subject-gaza-strip","document-subject-health","document-subject-humanitarian-relief","document-subject-refugees-and-displaced-persons","entity-united-nations-system","document-language-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document\/315788","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\/299"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document\/315788\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":315791,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document\/315788\/revisions\/315791"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=315788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"country","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/country?post=315788"},{"taxonomy":"document-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-category?post=315788"},{"taxonomy":"document-source","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-source?post=315788"},{"taxonomy":"committee-meeting","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/committee-meeting?post=315788"},{"taxonomy":"document-subject","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-subject?post=315788"},{"taxonomy":"entity","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/entity?post=315788"},{"taxonomy":"document-language","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-language?post=315788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}