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UNRWA Situation Report #27 on the situation in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, including East Jerusalem (all information valid as of 9 November 2023 at 18:30 local time)

UNRWA

10 Nov 2023

1. Key points

The Gaza Strip

• In the last 24 hours, UNRWA received confrmation that two additional colleagues were killed. 101 UNRWA colleagues have been killed and at least 27 injured since 7 October. This is the highest number of United Nations aid workers killed in a confict in the history of the United Nations. § Since 4 November, Israel has opened a humanitarian "corridor" along the main North-South Road in the Gaza Strip from 10 am to 2 pm. On 9 November, between 50,000 and 80,000 people - mostly walking - were forced to move from north to south. The UN and NGOs are supporting through presence and providing very basic assistance like water and some food just south of Wadi Gaza. People were forced to walk several kilometers and were exhausted and dehydrated amid unusually high temperatures.

• Two UNRWA schools and one health centre in Khan Younis were indirectly impacted when a strike hit a mosque nearby.

• Almost 1.6 million people have been displaced across the Gaza Strip since 7 October. Two additional shelters were opened in the Middle areas. Nearly 748,000 internally displaced persons (IDPs) are now sheltering in 151 UNRWA installations across all fve governorates of the Gaza Strip, including in the north.

• Over 588,000 IDPs are sheltering in 94 facilities in the Middle, Khan Younis and Rafah areas. Nearly 160,000 IDPs were sheltering in 57 UNRWA schools in the northern 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 does not have information on their needs and conditions.

UNRWA has launched an expanded Flash Appeal for the occupied Palestinian territory. The Agency is requesting US$ 481 million to address the most critical humanitarian needs of people impacted in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank including East Jerusalem, until the end of this year.

The West Bank, including East Jerusalem

• An Israeli Security Forces (ISF) operation took place in Jenin Refugee Camp at 01:00 on 9 November. There were exchanges of fre, and Palestinians reportedly threw pipe bombs at ISF. Heavy damage to camp infrastructure, including streets. ISF closed the entrance of the camp with earth mounds.

• Later in the morning, ISF conducted another operation bulldozing roads in the camp. An Israeli drone fred missiles at a house in the camp. At the time of writing, the Palestinian Ministry of Health reported 13 people killed including a child, and 20 injuries, including with live ammunition. Exchanges of fre continued throughout the day; further fatalities and damages to camp infrastructure are likely. Electricity was also cut.

• When the operation started, all UNRWA services in the camp were running and UNRWA staff were present. There were educational staff and students in the four schools, health workers and patients in the temporary health centre, protection team conducting a monitoring visit, engineers undertaking site visits and sanitation labourers in the streets of the camp.

• As clashes and exchanges of fre took place around the UNRWA schools in the camp, over 900 students sheltered in place for over eight hours and were provided with basic food and water supplies. Other UNRWA staff also remained inside installations in the camp. Students were fnally transported from the schools to a hotel in Jenin city with six buses UNRWA arranged for, at around 18:30 in the afternoon. UNRWA staff were also safely evacuated. Hundreds of camp residents fed to the nearby governmental hospital.

• In the afternoon, ISF conducted an operation in Balata refugee camp, Nablus, and an exchange of fre took place during clashes between Palestinians and ISF. Palestinians reportedly detonated a large explosive device at an ISF vehicle. One Palestine refugee was killed, and 17 others were injured with live ammunition. ISF reportedly damaged the roads, and other public and private infrastructure in the camp.

• The Palestinian Red Crescent reported 61 injuries, including seven from live ammunition