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19 June 2026<\/p>\n
The Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator, Tom Fletcher, yesterday\u00a0told<\/a>\u00a0the Security Council that civilians in\u00a0Gaza\u00a0cannot wait for a more convenient diplomatic moment to receive the basics for survival.<\/p>\n He warned that \u201cGaza is being held together by humanitarian workarounds and Palestinian perseverance.\u201d He also said that Palestinians in Gaza remain deprived of the basics that all families need: safety, shelter, clean water, health care, education.<\/p>\n Fletcher paid tribute to humanitarian workers who have made\u00a0progress since the announcement of a ceasefire eight months ago and called on Member States to ensure protection of civilians, humanitarian access, and timely funding.<\/p>\n Palestinians are being squeezed into an ever-shrinking strip of land, and their lives are shaped by the indignity of the constantly shifting \u2018yellow\u2019 and \u2018orange\u2019 lines that define where they can seek refuge, he noted.<\/p>\n Speaking about\u00a0the West Bank,\u00a0including East Jerusalem,\u00a0Fletcher cautioned that there is an intensification of discriminatory policies and practices directed against Palestinians.<\/p>\n OCHA said today that on the public health front in Gaza, partners have seen a further increase in diseases related to ectoparasites \u2013 which live on people\u2019s skin \u2013 and rodents in recent weeks, as temperatures climb and sanitation services remain inadequate. In the second week of June, partners trained nearly 100 people in multiple displacement sites on how to better detect and report disease.<\/p>\n At the same time, partners are exhausting stocks of pesticides and rodenticides that they brought into Gaza last month. Procurement of new supplies is underway. However, the lack of key chemicals for indoor spraying leaves shelters exposed. These and other items require approval from Israeli authorities to take into Gaza.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" 19 June 2026 The Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator, Tom Fletcher, yesterday\u00a0told\u00a0the Security Council that civilians in\u00a0Gaza\u00a0cannot wait for a more convenient diplomatic moment to receive the basics for survival. He warned that \u201cGaza is being held together by humanitarian workarounds and Palestinian perseverance.\u201d He also said that Palestinians in Gaza […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":299,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"country":[],"document-category":[2477],"document-source":[2169],"committee-meeting":[],"document-subject":[2005,5200,1745],"entity":[1729],"document-language":[6542],"class_list":["post-318980","document","type-document","status-publish","hentry","document-category-news-item","document-source-office-for-the-coordination-of-humanitarian-affairs-ocha","document-subject-gaza-strip","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\/318980","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":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document\/318980\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":318989,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document\/318980\/revisions\/318989"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=318980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"country","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/country?post=318980"},{"taxonomy":"document-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-category?post=318980"},{"taxonomy":"document-source","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-source?post=318980"},{"taxonomy":"committee-meeting","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/committee-meeting?post=318980"},{"taxonomy":"document-subject","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-subject?post=318980"},{"taxonomy":"entity","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/entity?post=318980"},{"taxonomy":"document-language","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-language?post=318980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}