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UNRWA Situation Report #113 on the situation in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, including East Jerusalem - All information from 6-9 June 2024, is valid as of 9 June 2024 at 22:30 (local time)

UNRWA

10 Jun 2024

Day 244-247 of Hostilities
Published 10 June 2024

1. Key points

The Gaza Strip

• Ongoing strikes by Israeli Forces continue, with aerial, land and maritime bombardment across the Gaza Strip. These result in civilian casualties, displacement and the destruction of residential structures and civilian infrastructure. Airstrikes have reportedly been especially intense in central Gaza, particularly in Bureij, Maghazi, and Nuseirat refugee camps and eastern Deir Al Balah. The Israeli Forces' ground offensive continues to expand, particularly in the southern regions of Gaza City and eastern Rafah, deepening the humanitarian crisis and significantly destabilizing humanitarian aid flows.
• 1.7 million people (more than seven out of every 10 people in the Gaza Strip) are currently displaced; families already displaced multiple times are on the move again due to military operations and Israeli evacuation orders.
• As of 9 June, almost all Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) have left Rafah, with fewer than 100,000 people who stayed in the area. All UNRWA shelters in Rafah have been forced to vacate.
• According to OCHA, on 6 June, an UNRWA school sheltering about 6,000 IDPs was struck overnight in Nuseirat refugee camp. The strike reportedly resulted in the killing of around 40 people, including 14 children and nine women, and the injury of 74 others, with some casualties believed to still be under rubble. UNRWA is unable to verify or confirm the above figures.
• According to OCHA, between 1-6 June, out of the 17 coordinated humanitarian assistance missions to northern Gaza, eight (47 per cent) were facilitated by Israeli authorities, three (18 per cent) were denied access, four (23 per cent) were impeded, and two (12 per cent) were cancelled, due to operational or security reasons.
• In addition, out of the 74 coordinated humanitarian assistance missions to areas in southern Gaza, 52 (70 per cent) were facilitated by the Israeli authorities, three (four per cent) were denied, 12 (16 per cent) were impeded, and seven (10 per cent) were cancelled. Many missions classified as impeded experienced extended delays, with some delays reaching up to nine hours at sensitive and insecure locations, placing humanitarian personnel at increased security risks.
• The ongoing Israeli military operation in Rafah is directly impacting the ability of aid agencies to bring critical humanitarian supplies into Gaza as well as the ability to rotate critical humanitarian staff. UNRWA has maintained a presence in Rafah with a focus on continuing missions to Kerem Shalom to retrieve fuel and aid. UNRWA is scaling up operations to significantly increase its capacity to retrieve aid via Kerem Shalom pending Israeli Authority movement approvals and cross-UN support to manage logistics. As UN and UNRWA are only able to access Kerem Shalom to retrieve humanitarian aid, UNRWA is only reporting on trucks entering Kerem Shalom which are being handled/verified by UNRWA and/or UNRWA on behalf of others (e.g. other UN agencies and NGOs).
• As of 9 June, the total number of UNRWA colleagues killed since 7 October is 193.

The West Bank, including East Jerusalem

The West Bank, including East Jerusalem update will shift to once a week, every Monday.

• According to OCHA, between 7 October 2023-3 June 2024, 508 Palestinians, including 124 children, were killed in the West Bank, including East Jerusalem.
• Between 3 and 9 June there were at least 161 recorded Israeli Security Forces (ISF) search and arrest operations across the West Bank, including East Jerusalem. The ISF detained more than 225 Palestinians including Palestine Refugees during this period, representing the highest number of detentions recorded in one week since the beginning of February 2024. Dozens of detentions were recorded in Kafr Malik (Ramallah Governorate) and Beit Ummar (Hebron Governorate) on the morning of 5 June, and in Qalqiliya on the morning of 6 June.
• Between 3 and 9 June, 11 Palestinians were reported killed. Three Palestinians were killed on 6 June in an ISF operation in Jenin Camp and Jenin city in the northern West Bank, during which rockets were launched at a house and an ISF helicopter opened fire. Two Palestinians were killed during an exchange of fire in Nablus, in the vicinity of Balata Camp, on 3 June. Two other Palestinians were killed in Tulkarm (north) on the morning of 4 June, when the ISF opened fire on their vehicle. On 9 June, a child was killed during a search operation in El Fara'a camp, in the northern West Bank.
• Israeli settlers' violence against Palestinians remained high, with an escalation over 7-9 June. Palestinians and their property were attacked in Burqa, in the northern West Bank, with at least two houses subject to arson and several cars burnt. In Masafer Yatta, in the southern West Bank, settlers uprooted olive trees and stole agricultural equipment.