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UNRWA Situation Report #134 on the situation in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, including East Jerusalem. All information from 3 - 5 September 2024, valid as of 5 September 2024 at 22:30 (local time)

UNRWA

6 Sep 2024

Key Points

The Gaza Strip

• Ongoing strikes by Israeli Security Forces (ISF) continue, with aerial, land and maritime bombardments across the Gaza Strip, resulting in civilian casualties, displacement and the destruction of residential structures and public infrastructure.
• On 3 September ACAPS released a thematic report on the impact of the conflict on mental health and psychosocial support needs in Gaza. The report highlighted that since October 2023, the 2.1 million Palestinians living in Gaza have witnessed or experienced an unprecedented number of violent and traumatic events, including direct violence, repeated displacement, and the loss of loved ones, homes, and belongings. Such experiences have increased anxiety, depression, and other mental health and psychosocial problems. Extensive destruction of the healthcare system prevents even basic treatment of these conditions in the immediate and long term.
• Humanitarian pauses across specific areas of the Gaza Strip have enabled the first round of the emergency polio vaccination campaign. Between 1 - 3 September, nearly 187,000 children were reached, according to World Health Organisation and the Health Cluster. The Polio vaccination campaign will be done in phases, focusing on one zone at a time - starting in the middle area, shifting to the south, and finally to the northern governorates. Vaccination coverage in the first phase exceeded the initial estimated target of 157, 000 children, due to population movement towards central Gaza, and expanded coverage in areas outside the humanitarian pause zone. To ensure no child is missed in this area, polio vaccination will continue at four large health facilities in the middle area of Gaza over the next few days. Vaccine doses have been supplied to these sites to meet additional needs.
• Both Food Security and Nutrition Clusters continue to experience access challenges; in August more than 1 million people did not receive any food rations in southern and central Gaza. Continuous displacement is disrupting access to nutrition sites and distribution cycles, hindering the humanitarian partners' ability to maintain consistent service delivery.
• According to the UN, at least 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 or more).
• 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. According to OCHA, between 1 and 31 August 2024, an average of only 69 humanitarian trucks entered the Gaza Strip per day. This is well below the pre-crisis average of 500 trucks per working day. According to the Food Security Cluster, Nutrition Cluster, Health Cluster and Shelter Cluster, persistent challenges in bringing aid into Gaza are causing significant shortages in critical humanitarian goods such as medicines, food, and nutrition supplies.
• As of 4 September, the total number of UNRWA team members killed since 7 October is 213.
• The latest information on supplies entering Gaza can be accessed through the below link:
  Gaza Supplies and Dispatch Tracking | UNRWA