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UNRWA Situation Report #127 on the situation in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, including East Jerusalem. All information from 2 August- 7 August 2024, is valid as of 7 August 2024 at 22:30

UNRWA

9 Aug 2024

Key Points

The Gaza Strip

• Ongoing strikes by Israeli Security Forces (ISF) continue, with aerial, land and maritime bombardment across the Gaza Strip. These result in civilian casualties, displacement of people and the destruction of residential structures and public infrastructure.
• Additional evacuation orders continued to be issued during the reporting period, with a new evacuation order on 5 August warning people living in parts of Khan Younis and northern Rafah to immediately move to Al Mawasi. According to the "Site Management Working Group", this latest evacuation order affects 41 displacement sites, 19 water and sanitation facilities, 12 schools and two functional medical points.
• According to the UN, up to 1.9 million people (or nine in ten people) across the Gaza Strip are internally displaced, including people who have been repeatedly displaced (some up to 10 times).
• Humanitarian Clusters and Technical Working Groups provided an update on current operations and challenges inside Gaza. Several clusters reported ongoing access challenges preventing clusters from delivering humanitarian aid; critical sectors including WASH, shelter and health urgently require an increase in the volume of humanitarian supplies to maintain operations. For example, the WASH cluster notes that the depletion of chlorine reserves, consumed at double the rate before the war, requires the urgent importation of new chlorine supplies, which is used to purify water critical for safe drinking water.
• UNOSAT published findings that estimate that 63 per cent of structures in the Gaza Strip are assessed as destroyed or damaged (severely, moderately or possibly). Its latest findings showed an increase in damage and destruction of buildings across Gaza compared to its analysis from May. For example, the governorates of North Gaza and Rafah have experienced the highest increase in damage, with around 17,300 new structures damaged. Following the Israeli military operation in Rafah city (that started on 6 May), the total number of buildings assessed as damaged now stands at 13,237 structures, 76 per cent of which (10,100) have been newly assessed as damaged.
• According to WHO and the Health Cluster, following 300 days of war, the health system remains barely functional with 90 hospitals and primary health care centres not functioning. UNRWA remains a major actor in the health sector, providing health services across 10 primary health centres and up to 100 mobile medical points across the Gaza Strip.
• As of 7 August, the total number of UNRWA colleagues killed since 7 October is 205.
• Several challenges stand in the way of collecting much needed humanitarian supplies from the Karem Abu Salem (Kerem Shalom) crossing point in southern Gaza. These include deteriorating law and order, war and insecurity, damaged infrastructure, fuel shortages and access restrictions.
• The latest information on supplies entering Gaza can be found below:

The West Bank, including East Jerusalem

The West Bank, including East Jerusalem update is now once a week.

• According to OCHA, between 7 October 2023 and 5 August 2024, at least 587 Palestinians were killed. Separately, UNICEF[1] reported that 143 children were killed in the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, since 7 October - an average of one child is killed every two days.
• Between 29 July and 4 August there were at least 183 recorded ISF search and arrest operations across the West Bank, including East Jerusalem. At least 140 Palestinians, including Palestine Refugees, were detained by the ISF during this period. During this period, there were 15 recorded Palestinians killed, of which nine were killed by ISF drone strikes.
• Two ISF drone strikes took place on 3 August: one in A'ttil and one in Bal'a, near Tulkarm in the northern West Bank. The strikes hit Palestinian vehicles. Nine Palestinians were killed in the two strikes. On the same morning, the ISF launched a search operation in Tulkarm Camp and Tulkarm city, with bulldozers damaging infrastructure and property.
• A Palestinian child was shot and killed by the ISF on 31 July for allegedly attempting to stab an ISF personnel at Beit E'inun junction, in the southern West Bank. A stabbing attack took place in Holon, south of Tel Aviv, on 4 August, with two Israelis reported killed by a Palestinian alleged assailant. The Palestinian was shot and killed, with another detained.
• On 2 August, at least three Palestinians were reportedly detained by ISF in the vicinity of Al Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem, including Sheikh Ekrima Sabri, a prominent religious figures and previously the Mufti of Jerusalem. He was released later the same day. At least five Palestinians including Sheikh Sabri were issued with temporary banning orders by the ISF preventing them from entering the Al Aqsa compound.