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UNRWA Situation Report #67 on the situation in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, including East Jerusalem (All information from 18-20 January 2024, is valid as of 20 January 2024 at 22:30)

UNRWA

21 Jan 2024

1. Key points

The Gaza Strip

• As of 20 January 2024, the total number of UNRWA colleagues killed since the beginning of hostilities is 151.

• According to OCHA, telecommunication services in Gaza have been down for the past seven days. Signifcant disruption of telecommunication services prevents people in Gaza from accessing lifesaving information or calling for frst responders, and continues to impede humanitarian response.

• As of 20 January, up to 1.7 million* people (over 75 per cent of the population)** have been displaced across the Gaza Strip, some multiple times.*** Families are forced to move repeatedly in search of safety. Following intense Israeli bombardments and fghting in Khan Younis and the Middle Areas in recent days, a signifcant number of displaced people have moved again further south.

*This includes 1 million individuals residing in or near emergency shelters or informal shelters. As of October 12, approximately 160,000 internally displaced persons (IDPs) were recorded in north Gaza and Gaza governorates. The ability of UNRWA to provide humanitarian support and updated data in these areas has been severely restricted. The ongoing hostilities, evacuation orders issued by Israeli Forces, and the constant need for safer locations have resulted in people being displaced multiple times.

**UNRWA has reported in Situation Report 64 that up to 1.9 million IDPs are either residing in 154 UNRWA shelters or near these shelters. Due to the continued escalation of fghting and evacuation orders, some households have moved away from the shelters where they were initially registered.

*** There are instances where the same IDPs are registered in multiple shelters due to the fuid movement of populations; hereafter, estimates are used for these shelters. UNRWA plans to conduct a more accurate count of IDPs in shelters, including informal shelters, as soon as the security situation allows.