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UNRWA Situation Report #22 on the situation in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, including East Jerusalem (all information valid as of 3-4 November 2023 at 18:00 local time)

UNRWA

5 Nov 2023

All information valid as of 3-4 November 2023 at 18:00 local time

Days 28-29 of Hostilities

Key Points

The Gaza Strip

• In the last 48 hours, five additional UNRWA colleagues were killed. UNRWA also received confirmation of the death of two staff members who were killed on 24 October. In total 79 colleagues have been killed and at least 24 injured since 7 October. Like most Gazans, our staff have also lost relatives, friends, neighbors and are themselves displaced with their families. And yet, they continue to work tirelessly to provide humanitarian assistance.

• On 4 November, one UNRWA school in Jabalia camp, north of Gaza, was directly hit by strikes, which resulted in 15 people killed and 70 injured among the internally displaced persons (IDPs) sheltering in the school.

• On the same day, due to strikes near an UNRWA school in Nuseirat camp in the Middle area, 11 IDPs sheltering in the school were injured.

• The total number of UNRWA installations damaged since 7 October is 48.

• Nearly 1.5 million people have been displaced across the Gaza Strip since 7 October. Nearly half of them (710,000) are sheltering in 149 UNRWA installations across all five governorates of Gaza.

• Over 550,000 IDPs are sheltering in 92 facilities in the Middle, Khan Younis and Rafah areas. Nearly 160,000 IDPs were sheltering in 57 UNRWA schools in the North and Gaza areas as of 12 October 2023, before the evacuation order was issued by the Israeli Authorities. UNRWA is not able to access these shelters to assist or protect the IDPs and as such does not have information on their needs and conditions.

2. Overall situation

The Gaza Strip

• According to the Ministry of Health in Gaza, 9,488 people have been killed since 7 October, of whom 70 per cent are women, children and older persons. Over 24,158 people have been injured. This is in addition to 2,000 people reported missing, presumably under the rubble of destroyed buildings, including 1,250 children.
• On average, a child is killed and two are injured every ten minutes during the war.
• Overall, nearly 1,400 Israelis and foreign nationals have been killed in Israel, according to the Israeli authorities, the vast majority on 7 October (OCHA).
• The health system in Gaza is collapsing due to a lack of fuel, medicines and supplies, damage to health facilities and hospitals and to roads and infrastructure, which makes transporting the injured to the hospitals almost impossible.

The West Bank, including East Jerusalem

• According to OCHA, since 7 October, 136 Palestinians, including 43 children, have been killed by Israeli forces; and eight, including one child, by Israeli settlers.