Humanitarian Situation Update #174 | Gaza Strip

Key Highlights

  • Treatment of more than 3,000 children suffering from acute malnutrition is at risk of interruption if nutrition supplies are not distributed, UNICEF warns.

  • No bakeries are currently functional in Rafah and public health concerns are beyond crisis levels in Khan Younis and Deir al Balah, according to the World Food Programme.

  • The Emergency Committee for North Gaza municipalities declared Jabalya town, Jabalya Refugee Camp, Beit Lahya and Beit Hanoun as “disaster zones.”

  • Humanitarian space continues to further shrink, report UNRWA and the Protection Cluster.

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Youssef (13) carrying bread for his family in Al Mawasi. Photo by UNICEF