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11 August 2026<\/p>\n
The Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) reports that most of the population across the\u00a0Occupied Palestinian Territory\u00a0lacks sufficient access to water, sanitation and hygiene.<\/p>\n
Over 1.3 million people \u2013 or more than half of the population \u2013 have access to less than 6 litres of water per person per day for drinking and cooking.<\/p>\n
According to humanitarian standards, the minimum amount of water needed in an emergency is 15 litres per day, which includes water for drinking, washing and cooking.<\/p>\n
Another 700,000 people \u2013 or over one third of the population \u2013 have access to less than 9 litres of domestic water per person per day, which compromises their ability to maintain hygiene, clean their homes, and meet their children\u2019s needs.<\/p>\n
Three in every four people rely on collecting water from trucks. Humanitarian partners are taking water to more than 2,500 water collection points every day and over 100 displacement sites across Gaza last month.<\/p>\n
People face overcrowding at water collection points and lack enough containers to transport water back to their homes \u2013 a task that is often left to children.<\/p>\n
Only half of all households have access to basic sanitation, or private facilities that prevent contact with human waste. The other half rely on shared, inadequate or unsafe options, which increase health risks.<\/p>\n
Humanitarian partners collect about 80 per cent of all primary solid waste generated across the Strip.\u00a0Yet more than 900,000 people report being exposed to garbage that accumulates in residential areas.<\/p>\n
Consistent funding, more permits to bring in spare parts, and renewed access to landfills in access-restricted areas remain essential.<\/p>\n
West Bank: Attacks on healthcare surge amid settler violence<\/strong><\/p>\n OCHA reports that settler-related violence continues to affect Palestinian communities across the West Bank.<\/p>\n On Sunday, in Nablus governorate, several Palestinian families, including children, were isolated from their surrounding community after Israeli settlers installed a gate on a nearby road.<\/p>\n These families have been unable to access essential services, including emergency healthcare.<\/p>\n This comes amid a spike in attacks on healthcare across the West Bank. According to data collected by the World Health Organization (WHO), there were 37 attacks on health in July, up from a monthly average of 10 attacks earlier this year.<\/p>\n This year, as of the end of July, WHO has recorded nearly 100 attacks affecting healthcare, mostly against health transport.<\/p>\n In 25 cases, health personnel or patients were arrested; force or searches of personnel, facilities or transport were used in other cases.<\/p>\n The Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ reiterates its call for the protection of civilians, including health\u202fworkers and patients, and for the protection of civilian facilities, including health\u202ffacilities. The Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ also calls for unimpeded access to healthcare. Perpetrators of unlawful attacks must be held to account.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" 11 August 2026 The Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) reports that most of the population across the\u00a0Occupied Palestinian Territory\u00a0lacks sufficient access to water, sanitation and hygiene. Over 1.3 million people \u2013 or more than half of the population \u2013 have access to less than 6 litres of water per person per […]<\/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":[2005,6866,6251],"entity":[1729],"document-language":[6542],"class_list":["post-320112","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-settler-violence","document-subject-west-bank","entity-united-nations-system","document-language-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document\/320112","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":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document\/320112\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":320115,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document\/320112\/revisions\/320115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=320112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"country","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/country?post=320112"},{"taxonomy":"document-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-category?post=320112"},{"taxonomy":"document-source","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-source?post=320112"},{"taxonomy":"committee-meeting","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/committee-meeting?post=320112"},{"taxonomy":"document-subject","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-subject?post=320112"},{"taxonomy":"entity","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/entity?post=320112"},{"taxonomy":"document-language","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-language?post=320112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}