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UNRWA Situation Report #97 on the situation in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, including East Jerusalem - All information from 28-30 March 2024, is valid as of 30 March 2024 at 22:30

UNRWA

1 Apr 2024

Key Points

The Gaza Strip

• Israeli Security Forces (ISF) continued military operations across the Gaza Strip, resulting in further civilian casualties, displacement and destruction of houses and other civilian infrastructure. Airstrikes and bombardment continued in north Gaza, Khan Younis and Rafah where UNRWA estimates a total of 1.2 million people are now living, the vast majority in formal and informal shelters.
• Access impediments continue to severely compromise the ability of humanitarian actors to reach people in the Gaza Strip. According to OCHA, since 1 March, 30 per cent of humanitarian aid missions to northern Gaza were denied by Israeli authorities. UNRWA is disproportionately impacted, with Israeli authorities continuing to deny UNRWA access to northern Gaza to deliver emergency food assistance.
• There has been no significant change in the volume of humanitarian supplies entering Gaza or improved access to the north. From 1 - 30 March, a daily average of 159 aid trucks have crossed into Gaza per day. The highest number this month was on 28 March, when 264 trucks entered Gaza via the Karem Abu Salem (Kerem Shalom) and Rafah land crossings. This remains well below the operational capacity of both border crossings and the target of 500 trucks per day. UNRWA is the largest humanitarian organization in Gaza. Since 7 October, over 1.8 million people, or 85 per cent of the population, have been provided with flour. In addition, nearly 600,000[1] people have received emergency food parcels and almost 3.6 million patient consultations have been provided at health centres and points. UNRWA continues to provide storage and distribution of other agencies' food commodities.
• As of 30 March, the total number of UNRWA colleagues killed since the beginning of hostilities is 173, an increase of two.
• As of 30 March, up to 1.7 million* people (over 75 per cent of the population) ** have been displaced across the Gaza Strip, the majority multiple times.*** Families are forced to move repeatedly in search of safety. Following intense Israeli bombardments and fighting in Khan Younis and the Middle Area in recent weeks, a significant number of displaced people have moved further south.

*This includes 1 million individuals residing in or near emergency shelters or informal shelters. As of 12 October, approximately 160,000 internally displaced persons (IDPs) were recorded in UNRWA shelters in Northern Gaza and Gaza City governorates. UNRWA currently estimates that the population of Northern Gaza and Gaza City governorates is up to 250,000 people. 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 ISF, and the constant need for safer locations have resulted in people being displaced multiple times.

**UNRWA reported on 15 January in Situation Report 64 that up to 1.9 million IDPs were either residing in 154 UNRWA shelters or near these shelters. Due to the continued escalation of fighting 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 fluid 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.

[1] UNRWA and other UN parcels distributed by UNRWA.