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UNRWA Situation Report #71 on the situation in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, including East Jerusalem (all information from 28-29 January 2024, is valid as of 29 January 2024 at 22:30)

UNRWA

30 Jan 2024

Key points

The Gaza Strip

• Intense fghting in/around Khan Younis(southwest of Gaza) over the last eight daysis causing loss of life and damage to civilian infrastructure, including UNRWA's largest shelter in the southern area, the Khan Younis Training Centre (KYTC).

• As of 29 January 2024, the total number of UNRWA colleagues killed since the beginning of hostilities has increased by one and is now 152.

• As of 29 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 further south.

• According to OCHA, on 29 January, the Israeli military ordered several neighborhoods in Gaza City to evacuate towards the south. This area consisted of approximately 59 shelters with an estimated 88,000 IDPs who are being forcibly displaced again.

• On 29 January, there was a resumption of aid trucks accessing Gaza via the Kerem Shalom crossing following days of disruption due to Israeli protesters.

*This includes one 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.