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11 december 2025

Humanitarian Situation Update #347
Gaza Strip

11 December 2025

UNRWA teams repairing water infrastructure in Gaza. Photo by UNRWA

Key Highlights

• Access to water has improved in Gaza owing to repairs to critical infrastructure and a near-doubling of water trucking by the UN and its partners.
• In anticipation of heavy rainfall and a deterioration in weather conditions, partners continue to identify displacement sites at high risk of flooding and prioritize winterization activities.
• Every week, about 15 women in Gaza give birth outside hospitals, without skilled attendants, according to the UN Population Fund.
• More aid must enter the Gaza Strip, especially aid that strengthens the health of pregnant and breastfeeding women, UNICEF Communication Manager stated, highlighting the harmful domino effect of maternal malnutrition on newborns.
• The Shelter Cluster estimates that fewer than 50,000 tents for about 270,000 people have entered Gaza.
• The UN and its humanitarian partners launched a US$4.06 billion Flash Appeal for the Occupied Palestinian Territory, allocating 92 per cent of the required funds for the humanitarian response in the Gaza Strip.

Context Overview

• Over the past week, airstrikes, shelling and gunfire continued to be reported across the Gaza Strip, resulting in casualties, including in areas where the Israeli military remains deployed – covering over 50 per cent of the Strip – as well as near and west of the so-called “Yellow Line,” which remains largely unmarked on the ground. Detonations of residential buildings and bulldozing activities continued to be reported, including near the so-called “Yellow Line.” Access to humanitarian assets, public infrastructure and agricultural land in areas where the Israeli military remains deployed, as well as access to the sea, remain severely restricted or prohibited.
• Between 3 and 9 December, the Site Management Cluster (SMC) reported that more than 16,400 displacement movements were recorded across the Strip, compared with over 20,500 the preceding week. The majority (about 16,000) were from southern to northern Gaza, while the remainder were either reverse movements to the south or from eastern to central Gaza city. Since the ceasefire came into effect on 10 October, over 793,700 displacement movements have been recorded, of which about 658,700 were from southern to northern Gaza. In December, over 90 per cent of displacement movements to the north have consisted of families traveling in light trucks, SMC reports, noting that this trend is driven by overcrowded living conditions in Khan Younis displacement sites and lack of access to adequate shelter materials.
• According to the Ministry of Health (MoH) in Gaza, between 3 and 10 December, 19 Palestinians were killed, 70 were injured and 10 bodies were recovered from under the rubble. This brings the casualty toll among Palestinians since 7 October 2023, as reported by the MoH, to 70,369 fatalities and 171,069 injuries. According to the MoH, the total number includes 223 fatalities who were retroactively added between 28 November and 5 December after their identification details were approved by a ministerial committee. MoH reported that since the ceasefire, 379 Palestinians have been killed, 992 injured and 627 bodies retrieved from under the rubble.
• On 7 and 8 December, the Palestinian Civil Defense (PCD) reported completing the transfer of 146 bodies to the Forensic Medicine Department and other authorities for burial in official cemeteries. These include 48 bodies exhumed from temporary graves at Al Ahli Arab Baptist Hospital (including 25 unidentified), and 98 from Al Shifa Hospital (including 55 unidentified). PCD noted that dozens of bodies remain in temporary graves at Al Shifa, which it plans to retrieve in the coming days. According to the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), many families still lack information on missing relatives. The organization is supporting health and forensic authorities in the dignified management, documentation, and identification of the deceased, so families can obtain answers and closure. Under international humanitarian law, the dead must be handled respectfully and their dignity protected, ICRC emphasized.
• According to the Israeli military, between 3 and 10 December, as of noon, no Israeli soldiers were killed in Gaza. The casualty toll among Israeli soldiers since the beginning of the Israeli ground operation in October 2023 stands at 471 fatalities and 2,989 injuries. According to Israeli forces and official Israeli sources cited in the media, more than 1,671 Israelis and foreign nationals have been killed, the majority on 7 October 2023 and its immediate aftermath. On 3 December, according to official Israeli sources, the body of one Thai hostage was returned from Gaza to Israel, bringing to 27 the overall number of returned hostage bodies since the ceasefire. As of noon on 10 December, the remains of one hostage is still in the Gaza Strip.
• On 8 December 2025, the UN and its humanitarian partners launched a Flash Appeal for $4.06 billion to address the humanitarian needs of 2.97 million out of 3.62 million people identified as requiring assistance in Gaza and the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, in 2026. Nearly 92 per cent of those required funds are for the humanitarian response in Gaza, with just over eight per cent for the West Bank. Bureaucratic impediments, access restrictions, and anti-UN rhetoric collectively constrain humanitarian space and the ability to operate at scale. The Appeal stipulates that genuine efforts to enable humanitarian assistance to and throughout the Occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT) requires full compliance by all parties with international humanitarian law, including the protection of civilians, and critical changes to the operating environment.
• According to the Protection Cluster, the protection environment across Gaza remains extremely severe due to ongoing displacement, insecurity, and worsening winter conditions. Overcrowded shelters and frequent population movements limit access to services and heighten risks of family separation and exploitation. Flooding, heavy rainfall, and dropping temperatures further degrade unsafe living conditions, particularly for women, children, the elderly, and persons with disabilities. Protection partners report rising demand for psychosocial support and an urgent need for winterization supplies, dignity kits, accessibility improvements, and tents for overcrowded or female-headed households to mitigate risks related to weather and gender-based violence. At the same time, operational constraints – including restricted movement, damaged infrastructure and supply shortages – continue to impede service delivery. Despite challenges, partners are working to sustain coverage through mobile teams, community-based mechanisms, and targeted support to the most vulnerable groups, though growing needs continue to exceed available resources.
• The Protection Cluster reported that in November, 100 mobile protection teams, including emergency protection responders and the Protection from Sexual Exploitation and Abuse (PSEA) Network, conducted 46 joint safeguarding monitoring visits across Gaza, reaching 1,276 people with key protection messages, including on PSEA. The monitoring aimed to strengthen safe and dignified distribution practices, reinforce accountability to affected people, and address protection and PSEA risks at distribution points. Successful measures observed included respectful staff conduct, clear communication with beneficiaries, orderly crowd flow, accessibility measures for the elderly and people with mobility impairment, and supportive interactions between staff and affected people. Several gaps persisted, with only 17 per cent of sites having gender-segregated queues and more than half of distribution teams being entirely male.

Humanitarian Access

• While there have been improvements in the volume of supplies brought into Gaza, the ability of aid actors to operate at scale remains constrained due to insecurity, customs clearance challenges, the limited number of partners authorized by Israeli authorities to bring cargo into Gaza, delays and denials of cargo at operational crossings, and limited routes available for transporting humanitarian supplies within Gaza. In the two months following the 10 October ceasefire, according to the UN 2720 Mechanism, the UN and its partners collected about 100,000 metric tons (MT) from Gaza’s crossings, reflecting a 67 per cent increase in the volume of collected supplies compared with the preceding two months when about 59,800 MT of aid were collected by the UN and its partners. Of the total, 81 per cent was food aid, almost nine per cent were shelter supplies, and about nine per cent comprised health, nutrition and water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) supplies. The opening of Zikim crossing on 14 November, which has been operating on an alternating offload-and-uplift schedule with Kissufim crossing, has not yet resulted in a substantive increase in the overall volume of aid entering the Strip through the UN and its partners. Between 14 November and 5 December, the UN and its partners collected over 39,400 MT of aid from the three operational crossings, according to the UN 2720 Mechanism, which is comparable to the 38,200 MT collected in the preceding three weeks when only two crossings (Kerem Shalom and Kissufim) were functioning.
• Humanitarian convoys by the UN and its partners inside Gaza continue to require coordination with Israeli authorities to and from crossings and in or near other areas where Israeli forces remain deployed. Between 3 and 9 December, humanitarian organizations coordinated 53 missions with the Israeli authorities, of which 35 were facilitated, three were cancelled, nine were impeded, and six were denied. Despite improved approval rates for humanitarian missions inside Gaza since the ceasefire, access denials persist for critical infrastructure missions, particularly those involving water and sewage systems and some health facilities. Over the past week, three such missions were denied: one to assess a wastewater treatment facility in northern Gaza, another to visit a wastewater treatment plant in Khan Younis, and a third mission to assess conditions at Al Awda and Indonesian hospitals in northern Gaza. The southern section of Salah ad Din Road remains inaccessible; however, on 8 December, an assessment and clearance mission was successfully facilitated to ensure accessibility for humanitarian cargo transport, in anticipation of a possible reopening.
• Livestock remain a vital source of food security, income, and transportation for many families in the Gaza Strip. According to the Food Security Sector (FSS), for the first time since August 2024 and after more than 15 months, some 3,500 veterinary kits entered Gaza on 5 December via UN coordination. During the first day of the kits’ distribution on 9 December, over 130 herders received essential supplies to support the health of their animals, which will contribute to improved public health and safeguarding their livelihoods. Since 10 October, FSS partners have also supplied more than 1,700 animal herders across the Gaza Strip with fodder to sustain surviving livestock and enable the resumption of local production of milk and dairy products. Humanitarian partners continue to face constraints and challenges imposed by Israeli authorities in bringing into Gaza many agricultural inputs, such as seeds, organic fertilizers and irrigation systems, limiting the ability of partners to rehabilitate local food systems and enhance dietary diversity.
• On 8 December, the World Health Organization (WHO) facilitated the medical evacuation of 25 patients from Gaza, in addition to 92 companions. According to WHO, 260 patients and 800 companions have been evacuated since the ceasefire. More than 18,500 patients, including 4,000 children, require medical evacuation, as the advanced care they need is not available in Gaza. WHO stated that the increase, from 16,00 to 18,500 patients awaiting to leave, is partly because people, previously unable to reach health facilities due to the insecurity, are now able to reach hospitals for medical assessment and consideration for evacuation for health care outside Gaza. WHO continues to call for additional support and the opening of all evacuation routes, particularly to the West Bank, including East Jerusalem.

Shelter and Winterization

• In anticipation of heavy rainfall and a deterioration in weather conditions this week, SMC partners continue to prioritize winterization activities, such as improving drainage, clearing pathways and providing empty flour and rice bags (repurposed as sandbags) to protect sites with existing site management structures from flooding. Most of the high-risk displacement sites lack any site management support or viable on-site flood mitigation measures, making evacuation the last-resort option once rain sets. More than 180,000 people in over 200 flood-prone displacement sites have been prioritized for evacuation, out of nearly 850,000 people at 761 sites considered at highest risk of facing floods, according to a recent flood risk analysis by the SMC.
• Families prioritized for relocation are living in low-lying or debris-filled areas along the coastline without drainage or protective barriers. Along the Khan Younis shoreline, more than 4,000 people live in high-risk coastal zones. Of these, around 1,000 people, those directly in wave-impact lines, are being prioritized for evacuation. The remaining 3,000 people will receive reinforced in-situ shelter assistance and other essential items, while also being advised to evacuate to safer areas. On 10 December, SMC partners supported the evacuation of 200 of the prioritized households to Hamad city, and planning is underway to evacuate 300 additional households. Furthermore, the SMC Cluster is working with the Khan Younis Municipality to operationalize two safer evacuation sites and preparation works are underway. Similar evacuation initiatives are ongoing in Deir Al Balah and Gaza city, where authorities, communities, the UN and partners are coordinating to identify suitable land and to ensure that affected families receive timely information to make informed decisions.
• In parallel, Shelter Cluster partners continue to distribute emergency shelter assistance, including tents, tarpaulins, bedding items, winter clothing and vouchers. Taking into account both UN-coordinated aid and bilateral donations, the cluster estimates that less than 50,000 tents (for about 270,000 people) have entered Gaza, of which nearly 40,000 tents (for 220,000 people) have already been distributed. As of 10 December, 1.28 million people remain in need of urgent shelter assistance, while aid partners continue to face major limitations in bringing into Gaza their supply pipeline. At the current pace, the Shelter Cluster warns that existing efforts cannot meet the scale of need. On 10 December, the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) highlighted: ‘’International aid organisations remain blocked from bringing in relief and nearly 4,000 pallets of shelter materials have been rejected. Gaza urgently needs heavy machinery, tools and shelter items to prevent catastrophic flooding.’’
• Recent rains have aggravated overcrowding concerns and poor living conditions facing more than 74,000 people sheltering in over 100 United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) schools-turned-shelters, including 85 displacement sites managed by UNRWA. Most of these sites are in Khan Younis and the remainder in Deir al Balah. UNRWA teams continue to remove water from flooded yards, clear blocked manholes and drainage collectors, repair damaged tents inside school compounds, and distribute tarpaulins and other materials to help families reinforce their shelter spaces against ongoing winter weather. Between 14 November and 8 December, UNRWA reached more than 82,000 households with winterization items, such as tarpaulins, blankets and winter clothes for children. Ongoing distribution of locally produced shelter materials, including wooden panels and metallic sheets manufactured in collaboration with private workshops, is helping UNRWA meet urgent shelter and education needs despite aid entry restrictions. As of 10 December, UNRWA has shelter supplies for up to 1.3 million people pre-positioned outside Gaza, but Israeli authorities continue to ban the Agency from directly bringing humanitarian aid into Gaza.
• According to the Shelter Cluster, the first winter rains have made it clear that tents alone are not a viable shelter solution for people in Gaza. Since mid-November, heavy rains have destroyed thousands of tents. As emergency structures, tents offer limited protection from heavy rain, flooding, or cold, and rapidly deteriorate under prolonged use. The Shelter Cluster stresses the urgent need to complement emergency shelter assistance with a rapid shift towards transitional shelter solutions. These include repairs to damaged housing, upgraded emergency shelter kits, and the provision of stand-alone transitional units. All transitional shelter solutions require the large-scale entry of materials like timber, steel, tools, and tarpaulins, which are currently entering in insufficient quantities or are blocked from entry by Israeli authorities. The Shelter Cluster calls for unimpeded humanitarian access and the immediate entry of shelter materials at scale as the only viable pathway to respond to emergency shelter needs, enable transitional solutions, and ultimately support a shift toward more durable shelter options for displaced people in Gaza.

Maternal Malnutrition and Health care

• Highlighting the scale of malnutrition among pregnant and breastfeeding women during the war, the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) Communication Manager warned that the “devastating domino effect” of malnutrition will likely result in babies being born with low birth weight for months to come. Recalling a pattern observed as the war progressed, UNICEF noted that "malnourished mothers, giving birth to underweight or premature babies, who die in Gaza’s neonatal intensive care units or survive, only to face malnutrition themselves or potential lifelong medical complications.” In October 2025, 8,300 pregnant and breastfeeding women were admitted for treatment for acute malnutrition. "Low birth weight is generally caused by poor maternal nutrition, increased maternal stress, and limited antenatal care. In Gaza, we witness all three, and the response is not moving fast enough nor at the scale required,” UNICEF stated, warning that low birth weight infants are about 20 times more likely to die than infants of normal weight. Citing MoH data, UNICEF said that in 2022, only five per cent of newborns, or an average of 250 babies per month, had low birth weight (less than 2.5 kilograms). By contrast, in the first half of 2025, 10 per cent of newborns, or an average of 300 babies per month, were born underweight. According to UNICEF, data shows that “the number of babies who died on their first day of life increased 75 per cent – from an average of 27 babies per month in 2022 to 47 babies per month between July and September 2025.”
• UNICEF is replacing destroyed incubators, ventilators and other lifesaving equipment and providing supplements to pregnant and breastfeeding women, among other services. To improve the response, UNICEF Communication Manager noted that “more aid must enter the Gaza Strip, especially aid that strengthens the health of pregnant and breastfeeding women and equips hospitals with everything they need to save lives. This must be supplemented by commercial goods that restock local markets with enough nutritious foods, so the prices continue to fall. And the fear must end. This ceasefire should offer families safety, not more loss. More than 70 children have been killed in the eight weeks since the ceasefire began. The ongoing attacks and the killing of children must stop immediately.”
• Women in Gaza are still giving birth amid ruins. Every week, about 15 women deliver outside hospitals, without skilled attendants or safety and one in three pregnancies is high-risk, according to the UN Population Fund (UNFPA). Only 15 per cent of health facilities offer emergency obstetric care, and neonatal units are operating at up to 170 per cent of their capacity, often requiring newborns to share incubators, UNFPA stated. UNFPA added that about half of maternal and child health medicines are at zero-stock levels, family planning services are scarce, and screening and treatment for breast and cervical cancer have ceased. Since the ceasefire, amid significant challenges, UNFPA and its partners have provided delivery beds and cardiotocography devices, but some life-saving equipment, including five containerized maternity units needed to expand sexual and reproductive health services, remain outside Gaza and denied entry.

Access to Water and Sanitation Services

• Since the beginning of the ceasefire, the volume of water trucked by WASH Cluster partners has nearly doubled compared with the preceding two months, with a daily average of about 26,000 cubic metres (m3) of drinking water and more than 9,300 m3 of domestic water distributed, according to the WASH Cluster. Water trucking operations remain one of the most adaptable humanitarian programmes, as they allow for swift adjustments to provide services in new locations as people move and needs are identified, the WASH Cluster noted.
• The Coastal Municipalities Water Utility (CMWU) and WASH partners, including UNRWA, have repaired and carried out upgrades to critical infrastructure, thereby improving people’s access to piped water and reducing reliance on trucking. According to the WASH Cluster, the increased volume of produced domestic and potable water is now serving more than 1.78 million people across Gaza. Among other accomplishments, CMWU, in cooperation with local municipalities and partners, have completed repairs of the Abu Sharkh well in Jabalya, restoring production to 145 m3 per hour for approximately 25,000 residents. Similarly, the Safa wells, serving key neighbourhoods including Az Zaytoun, Ad Daraj, At Tuffah, and parts of Ash Shuja'iyyeh, have been rehabilitated to restore an estimated 500 m³ per hour, benefiting 250,000-–300,000 residents. In addition, CMWU technical teams have upgraded a key desalination unit at the South Gaza seawater plant, increasing production to 18,000 m³ per day, serving over 800,000 residents across southern and central Gaza.
• Notwithstanding these improvements, the WASH Cluster reported that many locations remain uncovered or severely underserved, particularly in North Gaza (including Beit Lahiya), parts of Deir al Balah, and Al Mawasi. To meet existing gaps, the cluster is re-directing water trucking operations to these locations, rehabilitating local wells and installing community-level water tanks to improve collection.
• According to the WASH Cluster, as of 3 December 2025, the wastewater level at Sheikh Radwan lagoon dropped from high to medium risk, with the increased availability of fuel and following the completion of emergency pump repairs and the outlet pipe to the sea by UNICEF and its partners. The lagoon has become heavily polluted with sewage and stagnant water over the past two years due to widespread destruction of wastewater infrastructure in Gaza city. While the lagoon levels are continuously monitored and pumping rates are regularly adjusted to inflow rates, the WASH Cluster cautions that in the event the lagoon overflows, this would pose significant public health risks, including the spread of water-borne diseases.
• Solid waste management remains a challenge, with the two official landfills still inaccessible, the entry of spare parts for waste collection points limited, and access to essential machinery (such as waste collection trucks) severely constrained. According to the UN Development Programme (UNDP), between October 2023 and November 2025, approximately 900,000 tons of waste have been generated and dumped in temporary dumping sites, but the rate of collection remains limited. Since the ceasefire, 2,500 m3 of solid waste has been collected per day, compared with a daily average of 1,300 m3 collected in September 2025, while an estimated 3,300-3,850 m3 of solid waste is generated every day across Gaza. Temporary dumping sites have been largely saturated, with many located in densely populated areas that face serious environmental and public health risks. Of critical concern is the impact of rainfall and flooding, which may spread accumulated waste into surrounding communities, contaminate water sources, or block drainage systems, thereby heightening the risk of waterborne diseases. Without sustained waste collection and safe disposal, public health risks are expected to escalate throughout the winter season, UNDP warns.

Access to Education

• Extensive damage to school infrastructure has forced a reliance on temporary learning spaces (TLS), with efforts ongoing to expand learning services. According to the Education Cluster, the number of TLS grew from 303 in October to 392 in November. Overall, with support from 5,180 teachers, TLS are currently serving about 220,950 students, or about 34 per cent of school-aged children in Gaza, the majority of whom are in Khan Younis and Deir al Balah governorates. One of the key challenges facing partners in further expanding TLS is the large concentration of displaced people in certain areas, such as Al Mawasi area of Khan Younis and northern Remal neighbourhood in Gaza city, with needs far exceeding existing TLS capacity. Moreover, many school buildings continue to serve as shelters for internally displaced people (IDPs), and widespread debris and the potential presence of unexploded ordnance in school yards prevent or significantly delay the use of those compounds for establishing TLS.
• To expand enrolment capacity, education partners continue to support the rehabilitation of classrooms and have prioritized the rehabilitation of 97 out of over 2,000 classrooms estimated to require rehabilitation. Since the ceasefire, 65 classrooms have been fully rehabilitated, including 44 in November. Additionally, partners continue to submit requests to Israeli authorities to bring into Gaza basic learning materials, including pencils, books and other essential items, amid ongoing restrictions on the entry of educational materials and basic learning equipment. In parallel, partners continue to support local initiatives to manufacture chairs and desks using available resources. Wooden pallets are being repurposed to create seating surfaces, while metal pallets – brought in through Member State contributions – are cut and welded in workshops to form desk frames. These efforts have already produced simple but functional desks, providing immediate support to learning spaces. Between early September and 2 December, 460 high performance tents have entered Gaza through UN coordination, some of which have already been installed as classrooms, TLS, or child-friendly spaces.
• Winter weather and flooding could comprise TLS expansion efforts, particularly given that widespread destruction of drainage systems, infiltration basins, and stormwater facilities has significantly reduced the Gaza Strip’s capacity to manage seasonal floods, the Education Cluster cautions. Based on recent geospatial analysis conducted by the Cluster, 13 TLS serving over 7,800 students are situated within flood-prone areas and 24 TLS serving more than 16,000 students are located between 11 and 100 metres of a flood-prone area, placing them at high risk of temporary closure.

Funding

• As of 10 December, Member States disbursed approximately $1.6 billion out of the $4 billion (40 per cent) requested to meet the most critical humanitarian needs of 3 million out of 3.3 million people identified as requiring assistance in Gaza and the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, under the 2025 Flash Appeal for the OPT. Nearly 88 per cent of the requested funds is for the humanitarian response in Gaza, with just over 12 per cent for the West Bank. In November, the oPt Humanitarian Fund managed 128 ongoing projects, totalling $73.5 million, to address urgent needs in the Gaza Strip (89 per cent) and the West Bank (11 per cent). Of these projects, 61 are being implemented by international NGOs, 51 by national NGOs and 16 by UN agencies. Notably, 58 out of the 77 projects implemented by international NGOs or the UN are being implemented in collaboration with national NGOs. For more information, please see OCHA’s Financial Tracking Servicewebpage and the oPt HF webpage.

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11 december 2025

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11 december 2025

Slapen in een kapotte tent terwijl de regen naar binnen stroomt. De nachten in Gaza zijn ijskoud, vooral voor moeders en kinderen die nergens warmte of bescherming kunnen vinden.

Moeders en kinderen in Gaza trotseren noodweer met hevige regenval, overstromingen en kou. Veel kampen zijn deze week volledig onder water gelopen. In oude versleten tenten, met natte dekens en nauwelijks toegang tot voedsel is overleven hun enige doel.

In deze noodsituatie verdienen moeders en kinderen alle steun. Zij hebben die steun nu meer dan ooit nodig. Samen met u redden wij levens.

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11 december 2025

Gaza Humanitarian Response
Situation Report No. 43

10 December 2025
(As of 18:00 on 9 December 2025, unless otherwise noted)

HIGHLIGHTS

• The Bani Suhaila Mekorot water pipeline, which last week supplied an average of 16,200 cubic metres of drinking water per day in Khan Younis, is now damaged and out of service. 
• Three new outpatient malnutrition treatment sites opened in northern Gaza during the first week of December, bringing the total number of operational malnutrition sites to 41 in the north and 182 across the entire Gaza Strip.
• Over the past three days, approximately 20,000 dignity kits and 10,000 menstrual hygiene management kits were prepositioned in northern and southern Gaza to ensure essential support for vulnerable women and girls. In the meantime, the distribution of 146,208 child winter clothing kits is progressing apace.

SITUATION OVERVIEW

Sporadic reports of airstrikes, shelling and gunfire continued across all governorates, with the majority recorded in Gaza city, east of the “Yellow Line”. According to the Gaza Ministry of Health, two people were killed and five injured in the past 24 hours.

On 10 December, OCHA coordinated a body retrieval mission carried out by a Palestinian Civil Defense team in Beit Lahiya, in the North Gaza governorate. The body was reported by a UN mission in the area at the Al Waha Junction near Al Rasheed Road, approximately 1,450 metres south of the “Yellow Line.” The team retrieved the remains and transported them to Al Shifa Hospital in Gaza city. The deceased was reportedly a fisherman.

On 9 December, two bullets reportedly hit the ground floor of UNRWA’s Maghazi Health Center in Deir al Balah, located near the “Yellow Line.”

With a storm anticipated, low temperatures and rains are putting vulnerable groups at particular risk, including newborn children for whom hyperthermia is extremely dangerous.  The UN and partners have targeted efforts to deliver assistance to communities living in flood-prone areas, including by scaling up the distribution of winter clothes for children from 5,000 to 8,000 kits per day. 

In preparation for expected storm, Site Management partners have been proactively distributing the remaining flour sacks to be utilized as sandbags, along with tools and sand wherever feasible. Communication channels have been established with communities through designated site focal points to inform them about the forecasted rainfall, with practical guidance provided to help residents prepare.

According to a flood risk analysis concluded by the Site Management Cluster, 761 displacement sites hosting about 850,000 people, are at the highest risk of flooding. Over 3,500 displacement movements were recorded on 7 and 8 December, likely in anticipation of forecasted heavy rainfall expected to make landfall on 10 December.

Partners have also been accelerating the relocation of displaced households from high-risk shoreline areas. On 10 December, an initial group of 200 families was expected to relocate to a new site identified by municipal authorities in what remains of Hamad city, in eastern Khan Younis. Work continues to enable the relocation of an additional 300 households. Meanwhile, municipalities in Khan Younis are identifying more land, and site preparations are being expedited to facilitate the movement of further vulnerable families in the coming days.

UNITED NATIONS-COORDINATED AID ENTRY^*

On 9 December, at least 2,367 pallets of aid administered by the UN and its partners were offloaded at Gaza’s crossings, based on data retrieved from the UN 2720 Mechanism dashboard at 18:00 on 10 December. About 46 per cent of these pallets contained food supplies, followed by shelter (31 per cent), water, sanitation and hygiene items (13 per cent), nutrition (9 per cent) and health supplies (1 per cent). At least 102 truckloads were offloaded at Kerem Shalom and 50 at the Zikim crossing.

On the same day, UNOPS international monitors deployed at Gaza’s crossings verified the collection of at least 3,736 pallets of aid – 3,514 from Kerem Shalom between 08:33 and 15:15, and 222 from Kissufim between 07:02 and 09:06. These comprised inter alia 2,556 pallets of food assistance, including flour, pasta, rice and canned food, 710 of blankets and tarpaulins, 215 of winter clothes, 165 of infant formula and 55 of medicines.

Overall, between the announcement of the ceasefire on 10 October, and 9 December, at least 153,785 pallets of humanitarian cargo were offloaded, and 135,366 collected from the different crossings. Only 2 per cent of all uplifted aid was intercepted during transit within Gaza, while over 133,400 pallets safely reached warehouses for onward distribution to people in need.

The above data excludes bilateral donations and the commercial sector. 

On 9 December, five out of six humanitarian movements submitted for coordination with the Israeli authorities were facilitated. Denied outright was a planned assessment mission to Ash-Shaaf Maqbara and surrounding areas, in Gaza city, to gauge priority health, WASH, nutrition and protection needs of communities in those locations and provide appropriate support.

HUMANITARIAN RESPONSE

Food Security

• Between 1 and 8 December, Food Security Sector partners reached 52,000 households (approximately 260,000 people) with general food distributions as part of the December monthly assistance cycle. Families are receiving aid via 60 distribution points, including one newly established in the Beit Lahiya area of North Gaza that opened this week.
• The distribution of the 3,500 veterinary kits that entered Gaza on 5 December has commenced (SitRep #41 refers). So far, 133 herders have received one kit and three bags of fodder in Deir Al Balah.

Nutrition

• On 8 December, the Nutrition Cluster collected from the crossings 247 pallets of Ready-to-Use Complementary Food (RUCF), which will meet the nutritional needs of over 5,000 infants and young children for one month. The Cluster equally uplifted 167 pallets of Ready-to-Use Infant Formula (RUIF), sufficient to support more than 3,600 infants who cannot be breastfed for one month. While more RUIF is also expected to enter Gaza, there remains a supply gap in therapeutic milk (F-100). However, given the significant decline in malnutrition cases requiring inpatient treatment and the availability of therapeutic food (RUTF), this shortage is not expected to pose a major challenge.
• On the service delivery side, three new outpatient therapeutic sites for the treatment of malnutrition opened in northern Gaza during the first week of December, bringing the total number of operational sites to 41 in the north and 182 across the entire Gaza Strip. Approximately two-thirds of these sites provide integrated health and nutrition services, while the remaining one-third focuses exclusively on nutrition. Overall, the number of functional malnutrition sites has increased by 42 per cent compared to the month prior to the ceasefire.

Water, Sanitation and Hygiene

• The Bani Suhaila Mekorot water pipeline in Khan Younis is damaged and out of service. Last week, this pipeline supplied an average of 16,200 cubic metres of drinking water per day, with its damage representing a key concern. On 10 December, the team attempted to reach the site through coordination with the Israeli authorities, but access was denied.
• As part of flood preparedness measures, mobile pumps have been prepositioned in high-risk locations, contractors with heavy machinery and equipment are on standby, and mobile pumping units have been deployed in low-lying areas. Stormwater and sewage system unblocking and cleaning continues across Gaza. 
• Cross-sectoral assessments are ongoing at the Nasser, Al Aqsa and Al Shifa hospitals to reinforce water supply and chlorination. The WASH Cluster is providing 30,000 cubic metres of drinking water per day to the Al-Shifa Hospital through the subsidized water program.
• Medical waste management in accordance with Scenario B of the approved medical waste protocol is taking place north of Wadi Gaza at the destroyed Sheikh Ijleen wastewater plant site. Scenario B includes clay coverage of medical waste in a temporary control cell location. The 8,000 sharps boxes from Al-Rantisi Hospital have already been transferred.

Protection

• Child Protection
  • Partners are continuing the distribution of 27,622 winter clothing kits for children aged 0-3 months, 33,438 kits for children up to 12 months of age, and 85,148 kits for children aged 1–2 years. So far, 70 per cent of these kits have already been distributed through child protection and health partners and delivery hospitals. Due to the shortage of funding, partners will only be able to cover 37 per cent of the children in need.
• Gender-Based Violence (GBV) Prevention and Response
  • The GBV Area of Responsibility (AoR) is supporting partners with dignity kits and menstrual hygiene materials (MHM) for women and girls. Over the past three days, approximately 20,000 dignity kits and 10,000 MHM kits have been prepositioned with GBV AoR partners in both northern and southern Gaza to ensure vulnerable women and girls can access essential support through the storm.
  • As part of the closure of the 16 Days of Activism campaign on 10 December, GBV partners conducted a “Men Leading Change” training program in Deir Al-Balah, targeting 15 camp management male staff. The training emphasized the importance of engaging men in promoting sexual and reproductive health knowledge and preventing gender-based violence, fostering their role as partners in the family, and community protection. Other activities included interactive art therapy, recreational sessions, and focused psychosocial support directly targeting women and girls.
  • Over the past three days, a total of 3,400 women and girls benefited from multisectoral GBV response services provided at Women and Girls’ Safe Spaces (WGSSs) across Gaza, including case management, psychosocial support, awareness sessions, and referrals across Gaza.
• Mine Action
  • On 9 December, Mine Action partners conducted five Explosive Hazard Assessments (EHAs) in support of rubble removal efforts in Gaza city and Deir al Balah. Overall, 32 EHAs were conducted in the last week, 80 per cent of which in support of rubble removal efforts.
  • Explosive Ordnance Risk Education activities continue through five partners in Gaza city, Deir al Balah, and Khan Younis.

Fuel

• Between 1 and 10 December, UNOPS collected approximately 1.83 million litres of diesel from Kerem Shalom and distributed nearly 1.57 million litres across northern and southern Gaza to support critical humanitarian operations.

2046.

Yesh Din

10 december 2025

Ziv Stahl, Yesh Din Executive Director at Haaretz Conference. Photo: Alon AradWe are in the midst of a crowdfunding campaign while continuing our day-to-day work. To keep documenting, exposing, and demanding accountability, we need your support.
 Help us fight settler violence. Support Yesh Din today.Last week, together with 12 other human rights organizations, we published the "State of the Occupation" Report, summarizing the 58th year of the occupation and the two years of war in Gaza since October 7, 2023. The report presents a grim picture of widespread human rights violations and breaches of international law in Gaza, the West Bank, and East Jerusalem.

The publication of the report was accompanied by the “Unrestrained Occupation” conference, organized by Haaretz newspaper and partner organizations, with Yesh Din’s Executive Director, Ziv Stahl, among the speakers. Here is what she said:

“In October of last year, there were an average of eight settler violence incidents per day. Yesh Din’s data show that law enforcement is virtually nonexistent - 94% of police investigations were closed without indictments. To understand why there is so much violence and why nothing is being done about it, we have to understand who and what this violence serves. The answer lies not only in the outposts, but also in Jerusalem, more precisely, in the government that, upon its formation, declared its intention to annex the West Bank and apply Israeli sovereignty. The vision of Jewish sovereignty, of course, does not include Palestinians in the space, and its implementation is carried out through a pincer movement with two arms:

The first arm is the government, which has taken control of the levers of power and fundamentally changed the nature of Israel’s rule in the West Bank. Betzalel Smotrich, as a minister within the Defense Ministry, has effectively become the Minister of Annexation. From his office, he is dismantling the legal framework of the occupation by stripping powers from the military and transferring them to civilian loyalists. The Settlement Administration he established accelerated construction and development and the legalization of illegal outposts - all for Jews only. This is supplemented by massive budgets, land allocations, equipment, infrastructure, and legislation that facilitate land grab and dispossession. His coalition partner, Itamar Ben Gvir, has taken control of the police, leads the policy of impunity for violent settlers, and, under the cover of the war, has distributed thousands of weapons to settlers.

The second arm is on the ground - what official Israel cannot do itself, namely, ethnic cleansing, is accomplished on its behalf by outpost residents using guns, clubs, and machetes. The steep rise in the number and severity of violent incidents is also reflected in the surge in the number of Palestinians killed as a result of settler violence, and in the growing frequency of mass, organized raids inside Palestinian villages and towns. All this happens with the backing of state authorities - the police do not investigate, the army does not prevent violence, and soldiers either guard the attackers, at best, or join them, at worst. Systematic assault, with impunity, on men, women, and children to empty the area of their presence and seize their land. Dozens of Palestinian communities have already been forcibly displaced from their homes.

Trump may have pressed the brakes on formal sovereignty, but Israel has already annexed the West Bank, in practice and in effect, through violence on the ground and structural and legal changes. So at the next incident of settler violence, when we’re told again about that ‘small handful,’ supposedly just fringe youth, let’s remember - and remind others - who and what stands behind them.”

2045.

10 december 2025

ndiana University-Bloomington just became the latest university to retaliate against its students for pro-Palestine speech.

After a Jewish Ph.D. student refused to remove her "Free Palestine" profile picture, her departmental director expelled her from a Zoom meeting and then unilaterally blocked her approved conference funding — all because he disagreed with her political views.

This is censorship, bullying, and an abuse of power that suppresses academic freedom and furthers the climate of anti-Palestinian discrimination on U.S. university campuses.

Join us now in emailing IU-Bloomington to let them know that bullying and censoring pro-Palestine students is unacceptable, and to demand this departmental director step down immediately.

As the Trump regime escalates its crackdown on the Palestine solidarity movement, U.S. university administrators remain all too eager to shut down pro-Palestine protests on their campuses in the name of fighting "antisemitism."

As Jews and allies organizing in solidarity with Palestine, we have a responsibility to speak out against the weaponization of false claims of antisemitism. Email IU-Bloomington now to tell them to stop censoring and punishing pro-Palestine students. 

Jonah Rubin
Sr. Manager of Campus Organizing

2044.

10 december 2025

Americans must choose between defending their democracy or letting Trump drag them back into dark ages

Instead of addressing the “affordability” burdens weighing heavily on Americans, an issue he dismisses as a mere “hoax,” Trump, in a speech he gave in Pennsylvania  yesterday, sought to divert attention from his disastrous economic policies and his failure to deliver on campaign promises by attacking immigrants and inciting hostility against them.

Trump’s speech was not only saturated with hatred—he described several countries as “shitholes”, and has previously labeled some immigrants as “garbage,” “rapists,” and “thugs”—but it also relied on a crude racist rhetoric divorced from facts, evidence, and objectivity. At one point, Trump asked: “Why can’t we have some people from Norway, Sweden, just a few?”

It seems none of Trump’s racist or cowardly advisors bothered to inform him that countries like Norway and Sweden, and Europe more broadly, suffer from aging populations and themselves need immigrants. Without immigrants, America faces the same fate. Immigrants who respect the country's laws are an asset and a source of strength for the United States, not weakness.

For decades, Trump has made racism his path to wealth—beginning with building lower- and middle-income apartment buildings in Brooklyn and Queens, then as a real estate developer in Manhattan. Since announcing his presidential candidacy ten years ago, he has relied on racist and inflammatory rhetoric against minorities as a vehicle to power. And since returning to the presidency earlier this year, Trump has turned racism and incitement among Americans into a formula for masking his failures in governance. This is a familiar tactic of authoritarian regimes in failed or failing states: diverting attention from corruption and incompetence by sowing division.

Trump’s racist attacks on immigrants, particularly Somalis and Latinos at this moment, are extremely dangerous and risk inciting hate crimes against them, especially amid the climate of polarization and division gripping the United States. Evidence of this danger can be seen in the threats received by Congresswoman Ilhan Omar of Minnesota, who is a Somali immigrant. Meanwhile, the abusive practices of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) are not only inhumane but also unlawful, extending even to targeting American citizens based on appearance. In Minnesota, Somali-American citizens now feel compelled to carry proof of citizenship whenever they leave their homes.

America today stands at a critical juncture that will determine the future of its professed values, democracy, and global standing. Successive administrations have often failed these values both domestically and abroad—for example, in supporting Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza, where Biden’s Democratic administration has been no different from Trump’s Republican one. Yet Trump is now steering America down an even more perilous path, reviving racist and brutal policies thought to have been buried decades ago. America once believed it had cleansed itself of such poisons, but Trump is reproducing them with crude brazenness that exposes their true nature.

The choice couldn’t be clearer at this moment: either Americans collectively stand against Trump’s attempts to drag their country back into dark eras and save their democracy, or they allow him to manipulate it and redefine America in his own image, rather than upholding the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution. Every democracy is fragile by nature; it can only be strong through a robust constitution, institutions, and laws—and above all, through a people who believe in it and are willing to fight to preserve it.

In solidarity,

Dr. Osama Abu Irshaid
Executive Director, AMP

2043.

9 december 2025

Yet another governor targets CAIR in a desperate political play

American Muslims for Palestine (AMP) condemns in the strongest terms the executive order that was issued by Florida Governor Ron DeSantis yesterday, designating the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) as a “foreign terrorist organization.” AMP reaffirms its unwavering solidarity with CAIR and stands firmly by its side in the face of this malicious assault.

This is another reckless stunt, devoid of constitutional or legal foundation, yet dangerous in today’s climate of escalation. We are living through a moment when incitement and polarization are deliberately stoked by elected officials at every level of government, officials who appear to have forgotten the solemn oath they swore to uphold the Constitution.

Such a campaign does not merely target minorities through immigration policies, ICE practices, and executive overreach into legislative and judicial powers. It threatens the constitutional rights and civil liberties of all Americans.

This attack on CAIR is part of a larger effort to target, intimidate, and strip American Muslims of their rights and dismantle the civil institutions that safeguard them. It also reflects the complicity of certain elected officials with the Israeli agenda—placing it above American values, national interests, and even the needs of their own constituents. These politicians continue to put Israel first, desperately attempting to launder its image in the United States, an image already deeply tarnished in the eyes of most Americans because of its genocidal war on Gaza and its long-standing role in fueling wars and instability across the Middle East. In doing so, they continue dragging the United States into conflicts that undermine our own national interests.

Credible polling consistently shows that American public opinion stands against Israel’s crimes. A majority of Americans reject the interference of a foreign state, one dependent on U.S. aid and protection, in their country’s internal affairs, trampling on American values, laws, and interests. Yet some elected officials, consumed by hatred and Islamophobia, have chosen to betray the people who elected them, serving instead a foreign power that spies on our nation and endangers its security.

AMP calls on all defenders of justice, freedom, the Constitution, the rule of law, and civil liberties to stand with CAIR against this organized and ferocious campaign. The target is not CAIR alone—it is the very foundation of America’s constitutional, legal, and civil order.

In solidarity,

Dr. Osama Abu Irshaid
Executive Director, AMP

2042.

9 december 2025

Gaza Humanitarian Response
Situation Report No. 42

9 December 2025
(As of 18:00 on 8 December 2025, unless otherwise noted)

HIGHLIGHTS

• A severe winter storm is forecasted this week, with downpours expected to cause widespread flooding. Nearly 850,000 people are sheltering in 761 displacement sites that are particularly vulnerable to flooding.
• Market conditions continue to improve with the prices of basic food and non-food commodities dropping from 3,000 per cent above pre-conflict levels as of July to 132 per cent above pre-conflict averages as of 8 December.
• Dire shortages of essential drugs persist in Gaza. Five medical freezers were delivered to hospitals on 8 December to ensure the safe storage of therapeutic milk and foods for malnourished children.

SITUATION OVERVIEW

Sporadic reports of airstrikes, shelling and gunfire continued across all governorates, including in Jabalya al Balad and east of Jabalya in North Gaza, in Ash Shujaiyeh and At Tuffah east and northeast of Gaza city, off the coast of Khan Younis and in the east and south of the governorate, as well as east and north of Rafah city. Several locations east of the “Yellow Line” were affected. According to the Gaza Ministry of Health, one Palestinian was killed and six injured over the past 24 hours.

The Byron winter storm is forecasted this week, with downpours expected to cause widespread flooding. Past storms have flooded displacement sites, contaminating living areas with sewage and solid waste, and affecting thousands of people. Over 3,500 displacement movements were recorded on 7 and 8 December, likely in anticipation of forecasted heavy rainfall expected to make landfall on 10 December.

A flood risk analysis just concluded by the Site Management Cluster reveals that 761 displacement sites hosting approximately 849,977 individuals are at the highest risk of flooding. To date, flooding has been confirmed at 219 of these sites, directly impacting over 140,000 IDPs.

According to the Ministry of Health in Gaza, 52 per cent of essential drugs are completely out of stock, with severe shortages in primary healthcare (50 per cent), mother and child health (47 per cent), chemotherapy (63 per cent), mental health (35 per cent), emergency and ICU surgery (51 per cent), and kidney transplantation (46 per cent). Life-saving antibiotics and chemotherapy drugs are largely unavailable, putting patients’ lives at risk. Medical disposables are also critically low, with surgical gauze and laparotomy sponges at zero stock, causing delays in surgical procedures. Supplies for open-heart surgery are depleted, and orthopedic items—especially external fixators—are almost entirely unavailable (99 per cent out of stock).

UNITED NATIONS-COORDINATED AID ENTRY^*

On 8 December, at least 3,230 pallets of aid administered by the UN and its partners were offloaded at Gaza’s crossings, based on data retrieved from the UN 2720 Mechanism dashboard at 18:00 on 9 December. About 69 per cent of these pallets contained food supplies, followed by shelter (23 per cent), water, sanitation and hygiene items (5 per cent), and health supplies (3 per cent). At least 128 truckloads were offloaded at Kerem Shalom and 12 at Kissufim.

On the same day, UNOPS international monitors deployed at Gaza’s crossing verified the collection of at least 3,954 pallets of aid – 2,180 from Kerem Shalom between 08:04 and 15:12 and 1,774 from Zikim between 07:58 and 10:14. These comprised inter alia 3,911 pallets of food assistance, including flour, canned vegetables, emergency food rations, and nutrition supplements, 548 of blankets, 62 of tents, 60 of winter clothing and items, 56 of tarpaulins, 117 of jerrycans, 38 of sealing off kits, and 7 pallets of medical items.

Overall, between the announcement of the ceasefire on 10 October, and 8 December, at least 151,373 pallets of humanitarian cargo were offloaded, and 133,347 pallets collected from the different crossings. Only 2 per cent of all uplifted aid was intercepted during transit within Gaza, while over 131,000 pallets safely reached warehouses for onward distribution to people in need.

The above data excludes bilateral donations and the commercial sector.

On 8 December, eight out of 10 humanitarian movements submitted for coordination with the Israeli authorities were facilitated. One movement faced impediments and was only partially accomplished, while a UN reconnaissance mission to the UN Rafah Logistics Base was denied outright.

HUMANITARIAN RESPONSE

Health

• On 8 December, WHO facilitated the evacuation of 25 patients and their 96 companions from Kerem Shalom for medical treatment outside Gaza. About 16,500 patients in Gaza still require urgent medical evacuation.
• On 9 December, WHO reported that a second batch of five medical freezers, along with furniture and medical supplies, had been delivered to five hospitals – including two stabilization centres for the treatment of severe acute malnutrition – to ensure the safe storage of therapeutic milk and foods for malnourished children. Since August, WHO has provided 23 medical freezers to hospitals offering maternity and nutrition services in Gaza. These units help strengthen maternal health services and improve child and newborn care.

Shelter

• Between 7 and 8 December, Shelter Cluster partners reached around 7,400 households with emergency shelter and non-food items in the Gaza Strip. Overall, partners distributed 839 tents in North Gaza, Gaza City, and Khan Younis; 18,997 tarpaulins in Deir al Balah and Khan Younis; 1,252 blankets in Deir al Balah and 782 winter clothing vouchers in North Gaza and Gaza City. During the same period, a total of 3,995 tents reportedly entered Gaza through both the Shelter Cluster framework and bilateral donations.
• Two months after the ceasefire, insufficient quantities of shelter supplies have entered the Strip. UN and INGO partners have only been able to bring in 14,600 tents for 85,000 people, which increases to 48,600 tents when considering also bilateral donations, while 1.3 million people remain in need of urgent shelter assistance for the winter. Most INGOs remain blocked from bringing in relief and nearly 4,000 pallets of shelter materials have been rejected.

Nutrition

• A recent Post-Distribution Monitoring (PDM) survey was conducted among 756 households that received digital cash assistance during the month of November, having been targeted because their children were being treated for malnutrition. Survey results show significant improvements in household food consumption, with a fourfold rise in fruit intake (41 per cent up from 10 per cent), doubling of dairy products to( 65 per cent up from 30 per cent), tenfold increase in meat to (10 per cent up from 1 per cent), and incremental increase in eggs to (1 per cent up from 0 per cent). These findings highlight that cash assistance is enabling families to diversify their diets and improve nutritional intake, which is critical for child health and recovery from malnutrition.
• From 3 to 7 December, Nutrition partners strengthened their cash assistance efforts, providing additional rounds of multi-purpose cash assistance to vulnerable families through cluster referrals. This included support for 1,764 families with children screened and treated for Severe Acute Malnutrition (SAM), 1,962 families with children screened and treated for Moderate Acute Malnutrition (MAM), and 377 families comprising pregnant and breastfeeding women.

Protection

• On 8 December, 289 people were reached with protection services such as individual and group mental health and psychosocial support (MHPSS) and protection first aid, winter clothing and blankets distribution, legal and health guidance, protection risk awareness sessions, training for community protection committees, volunteer engagement, and referrals, delivered with strong links to Shelter and Health partners.
• Protection risks remain high due to overcrowding, disorganized site layouts, limited privacy, and access restrictions, with growing psychosocial distress and critical winterization gaps remaining.
• Child Protection
  • On 8 December, Child Protection (CP) partners reached over 1,100 children and caregivers through MHPSS, case management, recreational activities, awareness sessions and winter clothing distributions.
  • Partners continue to receive 40 to 50 complex child protection cases daily, including children without parental care, child survivors of Gender-Based Violence, children experiencing physical violence, children with disabilities, and children with severe psychosocial distress. These cases are managed through tailored, individualized responses based on each child’s needs.
  • On 8 December, about 50 children were referred to cash for child protection, health, education and shelter services across the Strip.
• Mine Action
  • On 8 December, four Explosive Hazards Assessment (EHAs) were completed by two partners in Deir al Balah and Gaza city, in support of rubble removal activities.
  • Explosive Ordnance Risk Education (EORE) activities continue through five partners in Deir al Balah, Khan Younis, and Gaza city.

Education

• The number of operational Temporary Learning Spaces (TLS) increased from 303 in October to 392 as of 8 December. Enrollment also grew significantly, with almost 221,000 students (55 per of them girls) attending classes with support from 5,180 teachers (73 per cent women). Despite this progress, only about 34 per cent of Gaza’s school-aged population is enrolled in these TLSs for the 2025-2026 academic year, highlighting the continued gap in access to education.
• Flooding in the Gaza Strip due to heavy rain during the winter season is expected to further affect TLSs. So far 38 TLS were affected by flash floods.

Multi-Purpose Cash Assistance (MPCA)

• Market conditions continue to improve. Prices of basic food and non-food commodities dropped to 132 per cent above pre-war levels from 3,000 per cent above pre-war levels in July. Leveraging these improvements, humanitarian organizations are increasing MPCA with 1.2 million people expected to be reached with US$380 per family by the end of the year. The cash out commission rate is also decreasing, down to 12 per cent as of 8 December.

Emergency Telecommunications

• As of 8 December, the Emergency Telecommunications Cluster (ETC) continues to explore avenues for replacing damaged satellite devices reported by UN agencies. Delays in device replacement are compromising staff safety and security during field missions.
• The ETC is working on installing the Very High Frequency (VHF) repeater at the Khan Yunis Training Centre following its relocation from Deir Al Balah. Additionally, installation activities are underway to improve VHF coverage in southern Gaza.

2041.

9 december 2025

As the year draws to a close, our Board would like to offer a few reflections and express their gratitude to our beautiful community, whose steadfast support enables us to carry out our mission.

Messages from our Board of Directors

It is the honor of a lifetime for me to serve on the Board of Directors of Eyewitness Palestine!

Here in the United States, we often struggle to find meaningful ways to impact American complicity in the violence of the Zionist project called Israel - apartheid, displacement, settler brutality, genocide. The entire world has recognized Israel’s rogue status, but, in the US, not only does our government support this ongoing Nakba, but our tax dollars are funding massive violations of international law.

After two plus years of a genocide witnessed by ordinary citizens on alternative media, there has been a sea change in the public opinion of Americans. No longer do people believe the lies and propaganda of the mainstream media, corporations, and the government. But our politicians refuse to join, choosing war crimes over humanity, corporate and state sponsorship over morality. We know that the only way to alter this dynamic is to build a massive resistance that will challenge their ability to continue maintain their power .

That is why Eyewitness Palestine is a critical member of the Palestine solidarity movement. Every delegation, every webinar, all the mutual aid that EP raises, contributes mightily to the growth of advocacy for Palestine and the end of the corrupt politics that bankrupts our souls.

Eyewitness Palestine is a powerful engine for the change that we all want to see. EP represents one meaningful and practical way to stand up for Palestine. As we end another year of unspeakable horrors, please consider a donation of any kind to help EP continue its mission of justice, dignity, and freedom. Thank you.

-Harry Soloway

I thought I knew what to expect on that first delegation in May 2008 given the efforts IFPB (now Eyewitness Palestine) had made in giving the delegation a 2 day preparatory workshop. But I was not prepared for the visceral response I had as I witnessed first hand the clear segregation and abuses Palestinians were subjected to on a daily basis. The memories have stayed with me, going through Qalandia checkpoint, walking through the souk in Hebron, all but empty of stalls, listening to Iyad Burnat’s family share their experiences protesting against the segregation wall, visiting with a refugee family - four generations - in Dheshieh refugee camp. I fell in love, and became committed to the Palestinian fight for justice.

I returned home in June and began to arrange speaking engagements with churches and social justice groups to share what I had witnessed. I realized how much we here in the US needed to learn about Palestine and the occupation, and how valuable and transformative our delegations are. Since June 2008, there have been many heartbreaking moments. When I was offered the opportunity to join the EP board, I was thrilled because it’s given me the chance to work closely with the incredible EP team, to encourage and support more folks to go on delegations.  When friends ask why I continue to engage with justice for Palestine, I tell them how important it is to “go and see and come and tell.”  Thank you for your support, which fuels this important work!  

-Paula Roderick

I had the profound good fortune of joining an Eyewitness Palestine delegation of mental health professionals in April of 2025. Traveling with Eyewitness Palestine means you are not a tourist. You are welcomed with extraordinary warmth, and you leave not simply as a visitor, but as an informed, committed partner in the struggle for justice and liberation.

The experience was more than life-changing. It was inspiring, grounding, and deeply uplifting. It strengthened both my understanding and my resolve, and it reminded me of the power of human connection in the face of immense structural violence.

In this time of growing global demands for justice, we find ourselves watching the majority of elected officials bow to the corporate and political interests that continue to fuel the ongoing genocide and ethnic cleansing. It forces us to ask: How can this continue while the whole world is watching?

The answer, in part, lies in the reality that many stand to gain—politically, financially, or professionally—from the perpetuation of this violence. After spending countless hours advocating in Washington, D.C., and in other political spaces, I am no longer surprised to discover that the offices of our elected representatives too often have less accurate, on-the-ground information than we do. Those of us who maintain direct relationships with partners in the region—those of us who speak daily with people living this struggle in Palestine—carry a deeper, more urgent understanding of what is happening.

This is precisely what Eyewitness Palestine offers: the chance to go beyond the headlines and into the land itself, into the homes, workplaces, and communities of the people who live this reality every day. It is not a passive learning experience; it is a journey of relationship-building, of witnessing, and of standing in solidarity.

Your donation in any amount will help further this critical work - for justice, for humanity, for those in Palestine and the diaspora who are relying upon us to stay the course. Thank you.

-Cheryl Qamar

I first became aware of Eyewitness Palestine in 2015, when a friend told me he was going on a delegation to the West Bank. Being Lebanese, I knew many Palestinians but did not really know much about the situation there. I joined my friend on the delegation, and it changed my life and my perceptions forever.

I saw first-hand the tremendous injustices visited upon Palestinians in their homes and their communities. The horrors of home demolition, detention and imprisonment even of young children, the physical and psychological violence visited upon them day after day, month after month, year after year, decade after decade.

I also saw, to my amazement, the grace and warmth and fortitude of Palestinian people who regularly experience humiliation and indignities at the hands of the IDF and Israeli settlers. The trip inspired me to a lifelong commitment to work on behalf of Palestinian freedom.

Upon returning from the delegation, I joined the board of Eyewitness Palestine and have been involved in the movement ever since. Because views in the US are so skewed toward Israel – in our government, in the media, and in every discourse – the work of Eyewitness Palestine is more important than ever. Our organization takes delegates to Palestine and gives them a first-hand view of the truth of what is happening. Then these delegates return to America committed to telling these truths about the Occupation and its impact on Palestinian people. So many delegates, upon their return, say “the trip changed my life.”

That is why it is so important to support Eyewitness Palestine. As a board member and as someone who is dedicated to the the movement for Palestinian liberation, I am asking you to support Eyewitness Palestine in whatever way you can. Thank you.

-Tom Hier

2040.

9 december 2025

There’s no doubt that 2025 has been a challenging year.

October marked two years of Israel’s ongoing genocide of the Palestinian people. Despite the so-called ceasefire agreement going into effect on October 11, Israel has continued to attack Gaza nearly every day since, while blocking life-saving aid from entering. In the West Bank, settler attacks are on the rise. All the while, Israel continues to bomb Lebanon with complete impunity.

I’m writing to you today because I know a better world is possible, Nico. A world where our tax dollars fund healthcare, housing, and education—programs that make our communities stronger—instead of fueling a genocide with billions of dollars in weapons and military funding.

How do I know a better world is possible? Because of people like you, who are unrelenting in your compassion and commitment to justice and the liberation of the Palestinian people, and all people.

We have a long road ahead of us, but these past two years have shown that our movement is growing by leaps and bounds.

As I reflect on this past year, I am eternally grateful for steadfast supporters like you, who day after day power our critical advocacy work. Thank you.

In the year ahead, we need your help to keep shifting the narrative, providing vital resources like our Congress Scorecard and Not My Tax Dollars map, and supporting organizers who are fighting to move dollars away from genocide through local divestment campaigns.

2039.

BDS

9 december 2025

These past two years have brought overwhelming grief. But alongside that pain, something else has grown — a deeper determination, a clarity of purpose, and a refusal to give up on our people’s struggle for freedom, justice and equality.

Since the announcement of the so-called "ceasefire", our focus has remained unwavering: to push for a real end to Israel’s genocide and to protect our people’s decades-long struggle for justice and liberation from all threats including the latest illegal colonial plan of Trump and Netanyahu.

Watch Omar Barghouti, co-founder of the BDS movement and recipient of Gandhi Peace Award, reflecting on the dangers facing our struggle and how we can collectively rise to meet them.

Share this video with your friends and networks so our reach grows stronger.

2038.

AVAAZ

9 december 2025

Eén verpleegkundige uit Gaza is zojuist vrijgelaten uit Israëlische detentie -- maar dr. Abu Safiya en zo’n 90 andere hulpverleners worden nog steeds vastgehouden. Mogelijk worden zij gemarteld terwijl jij dit leest. Sluit je aan bij meer dan 520.000 anderen wereldwijd en laat je horen voor hun vrijlating.

2037.

8 december 2025

A full week of powerful webinars is on the way, created to inform, inspire action, and advance our mission. When you register, you’re helping sustain the work that makes these important conversations possible. It takes a few minutes to register and we have a really great offer on ALL 5 webinars available within the links!

Threads of Resistance Webinar Series: December 15 – 19, 2025

End the year on an inspiring note and join us this December for “Threads of Resistance,” a powerful week-long series of online events uplifting voices across the global movement for Palestinian liberation. Throughout the week, we’ll feature artists, organizers, public figures, spiritual leaders, and past Eyewitness Palestine delegates who have witnessed the occupation on the ground firsthand. What unifies our speakers is their commitment to standing firmly in truth, even when doing so comes at personal cost.

Each session offers unique perspectives, bringing together stories, experiences, and acts of resistance that span communities and continents. We invite you to be part of these conversations, to learn, to reflect, and to engage in meaningful dialogue with us.

Donations raised will go towards sustaining Eyewitness Palestine’s work throughout the year, including our virtual and in-person delegations, webinars, and mutual aid projects.

REGISTER FOR THE FOLLOWING UPCOMING EVENTS BY CLICKING ON THIS LINK:

December 15th, 8pm EST: "Blacklisted": This session spotlights individuals who are not new to speaking out against the occupation, and who have been fired, silenced, de-platformed, shadow banned or publicly targeted for speaking the truth. Hear firsthand accounts from people who have endured retaliation for standing in solidarity with Palestinians and learn how censorship shapes movement work globally. Together, we will explore the consequences of suppression, and imagine collective strategies to resist attempts to fracture, intimidate, or silence the movement. 

December 16th , 12pm EST - “Breaking Borders: Globalizing Palestine": Join us for a conversation with activists, organizers, and artists from around the world. This session explores how global struggles for liberation intersect with Palestine, and how international solidarity continues to break through borders, policing, and political pressure.

December 17th , 8pm EST - “Palestine Through My Eyes” : In this session, past delegates will share their firsthand experiences from the ground in Palestine. Hear personal reflections, stories, and insights from those who have witnessed the violence of the occupation as well as the strength, creativity, and beauty of the Palestinian people, across the West Bank.

December 18th , 12pm EST - “Artists for Palestine” : Hear from artists across disciplines who use their creative platforms to uplift Palestinian voices, challenge injustice, and inspire global solidarity. This session highlights how art can be employed as a tool for resistance, storytelling, and collective liberation.

December 19th , 12pm EST - “Religious Voices for Palestine” : Religious and spiritual leaders from various traditions come together to discuss solidarity with Palestine through a spiritual and ethical lens. Explore how faith communities interpret justice, liberation, and moral responsibility in the context of Palestine.

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A Week of Major Legal Actions: HRF Targets War Criminals From Spain to Canada

Brussels, 08 December 2025

In the past 14 days, the Hind Rajab Foundation (HRF) has advanced several major legal actions across Europe and North America, strengthening the global push to hold Israeli perpetrators accountable.

Most recently, HRF filed a criminal complaint in Spain seeking the arrest of an Israeli soldier involved in the large-scale destruction of Beit Hanoun, supported by verified video and photographic evidence.

We have also joined partners in Canada to invoke universal jurisdiction against former Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and former Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni, urging their arrest during their planned visit to Toronto for their roles in the 2008–09 Gaza massacre.

Meanwhile, in the Netherlands, HRF has called on the Dutch Bar Association (NOvA) to adopt new safeguards ensuring that legal professionals do not facilitate international crimes through corporate or financial structures. This resolution was adopted on the 2nd of December.

Beyond these public actions, HRF has filed three additional cases in recent days that cannot yet be disclosed for strategic reasons — including one major case targeting an entire Israeli battalion implicated in systematic war crimes.

Taken together, these developments mark a rapid expansion of HRF’s international legal work, as impunity fragments and accountability takes root, jurisdiction by jurisdiction.

More info below

HRF Seeks Arrest of Israeli Soldier in Spain Over the Destruction of Beit Hanoun

03 December 2025 – HRF initiates legal action in Spain against a soldier accused of taking part in the destruction of Beit Hanoun in northern Gaza.

HRF and Partners Seek Arrest of Olmert and Livni in Canada Over 2008-09 Crimes

03 December 2025 – HRF files complaint urging Canada to arrest former Israeli leaders Ehud Olmert and Tzipi Livni for alleged war crimes in Gaza during 2008–2009 war.

The Dutch Debate on Complicity and the Responsibility of Lawyers

24th November 2025– As Israel commits genocide in Gaza, Haroon Raza urges the Dutch Bar to examine lawyers’ roles in enabling atrocity crimes.

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Casualties, Property Damage and Displacement

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Support War Refusers

I would like to tell you about our work to create a support infrastructure for anti-occupation and war resistance. We were able to grow and develop effective Israeli resistance initiatives that helped to push for a ceasefire. We are now in a critical moment where we can use the ceasefire to bring the occupation closer to an end. We need your help to do it by providing training for activists.

Immediately after October 7th, we tried to encourage the Israeli anti-occupation movement to resist the predictable invasion of Gaza, but we did not succeed. The movement was in shock and mourning members who were murdered that day. It caught us all unprepared and unready. This experience sent us on a mission to understand how we can support the movement to respond faster, be more adaptable and have the power not to stop war after it happens but prevent it. We discovered that many successful movements around the world were supported by organisations that provide infrastructure to support, mentor and train activists and new initiatives. We started to develop this infrastructure.

Support War Refusers

What we do is like a desert greenhouse for cultivating organized anti-occupation resistance, especially focusing on refusal. Its goal: to transform individual grassroots initiatives into a coordinated anti-war movement from within. It provides the support system that new initiatives need to emerge, mentorship to advise and guidance and training to provide knowledge and skills to activists.

We are one of the leading forces of the growing Israeli resistance against the genocide and one of the forces that helped to force a ceasefire. We supported and provided mentorships to initiatives and activists who protest and execute direct action that interfere with the genocidal machine. The most successful, and it is our speciality, was the reservist’s refusal wave which started and was supported by us. I will discuss it further in the next newsletter.
 Support War RefusersUntil today, we have mostly focused on developing and supporting new resistance initiatives. Now we are starting to provide training for activists. Activism is not random actions and hoping for good, but calculated strategic action plans to undermine the power of the regime. We provide activists the knowledge and tools that they need to take action to break the foundation of the Israeli occupation. Training also helps to bring new people and power into movements; this is why training is so urgent to the movement now. With the ceasefire agreement, the movement entered a new phase. The movement has here the opportunity to use the momentum to keep the ceasefire and push for the end of the occupation. We need to create new initiatives that fit the phase and bring new activists from the hostage protests to the anti-occupation movement. That is what training can do, bring new people and create new initiatives.

In order to do that, we need your help. With our $50,000 goal, we will be able to strengthen the anti-occupation movement by training activists. Your gift, even the smallest amount, can make a difference. We do not have millionaires who support us, but normal people, like you, who want peace and justice from the river to the sea. Support the Israeli resistance today to bring the occupation one step closer to an end.

In solidarity,

Mattan Helman
Refuser Solidarity Network

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Gaza Humanitarian Response
Situation Report No. 40

6 December 2025
(As of 18:00 on 5 December 2025, unless otherwise noted)

HIGHLIGHTS

• Health service delivery in northern Gaza surged after the ceasefire, with the number of active health partners more than doubling, and consultations increasing more than tenfold, from 5,000 to 55,000 as of mid-November.
• On 4 December, the WASH Cluster distributed 35,607 dignity and 2,208 hygiene kits in the North Gaza governorate, reaching approximately 45,000 people.
• Three hundred essential cleaning supply kits were distributed to 93 learning spaces in Khan Younis, Deir al Balah and Gaza city to help mitigate the spread of communicable diseases.

SITUATION OVERVIEW

Reports of airstrikes, shelling and gunfire continued across all governorates, with all incidents recorded east of the “Yellow Line”. On 5 December, OCHA helped the Palestinian Civil Defence coordinate the attempted rescue of an injured person in North Gaza’s Beit Lahiya area. The mission, initially requested at 17:00, could only proceed five hours later, when the Israeli forces approved the deployment, exclusively on foot, of a Civil Defence team to the incident location. Upon arrival, however, the team found the individual had already died. The incident reportedly occurred when a family comprised of a father, mother, and son went to their damaged home in Beit Lahiya to retrieve winter clothes; they were impacted by a shell near the “Yellow Line”, with the father – who was also a Civil Defence worker - succumbing to his injuries.

The Site Management Cluster (SMC) currently records 942 active displacement sites, hosting nearly 1.5 million people. The vast majority, 783, are makeshift or scattered sites, accommodating more than 1.1 million people. Site Management partners are operational in 356 of these sites, about 38 per cent of the total, undertaking winterization and flood mitigation measures as possible, despite the extremely limited supply of construction materials that entered the Strip over the past two years. This leaves most of the population sheltering in displacement sites without dedicated Site Management support. The Cluster has started collecting data on these sites to assess flooding risks and needs; so far, 170 sites hosting over 191,000 people have been contacted. Of these, 141 reported flooding during recent rainfall, directly affecting 65,745 people. This information is currently being reviewed and will be shared with relevant partners to help inform potential support and targeted interventions.

In Gaza City, the garbage mountain of solid waste at Faras Market has now reached 13 metres with an arrival rate of one truck every three to five minutes. New spontaneous dump sites are also appearing, all of which include medical waste mixing.

Only half of drinking water samples and 4 per cent of domestic samples meet standards and just 21 per cent of drinking water in health facilities is chlorinated. All partners operating wells, desalination units, or trucking have been requested to test water quality and inform communities.

According to WASH Cluster surveillance, Acute Respiratory Infections (ARI) and Acute Watery Diarrhea (AWD) remain the most frequently reported conditions, accounting for an average morbidity of 60% and 39%, respectively. A rise in AWD morbidity has been observed among individuals aged ≥5 years, while a decline in ARI cases is noted.

UNITED NATIONS-COORDINATED AID ENTRY^*

On 5 and 6 December, all Gaza’s crossings were closed for offloading.

Collection of humanitarian cargo from the platforms into Gaza, however, proceeded. While no comprehensive information is available yet, at least 401 pallets of menstrual health management kits and 1,058 pallets of dignity kits, diapers, jerrycans and winter clothes were uplifted from Kerem Shalom for onward distribution to people in needed.

The above data excludes bilateral donations and the commercial sector. 

Overall, out of 14 humanitarian movements submitted for coordination with the Israeli authorities on 5 and 6 December, seven were facilitated, three faced impediments and were only partially accomplished, two were denied outright, and two were cancelled by the organizers. Out of six aid cargo collection missions, four were facilitated by the Israeli forces, one was impeded, and one was cancelled due to lack of humanitarian cargo left for uplifting at Zikim. An attempt to undertake a reconnaissance mission of Salah ad-Deen Road on 5 December was only allowed for the first two kilometers; a new coordination request to cover the remaining section was denied on 6 December. 

HUMANITARIAN RESPONSE

Health

• Health service delivery in the Gaza city and the North Gaza governorates has increased since the announcement of the ceasefire, with the number of active health partners nearly doubling from 16 to 30, and consultations increasing more than tenfold, from 5,000 before the ceasefire to 55,000 as of mid-November.
• On 4 December, the Health Cluster conducted a mission to the North Gaza Governorate to assess health service points (HSP) requirements. Initial findings confirm a critical need for a primary health care centre and a field hospital in underserved areas, while the reactivation of the Kamal Adwan and Indonesian hospitals remains uncertain due to repeated mission denials and military operations in the area. The Health Cluster has identified three locations for the establishment of these HSPs and will work with partners to address community needs in the assessed areas.
• Between 3 and 5 December, WHO delivered 10 anesthesia machines to partner hospitals and supported a new field hospital set up in Gaza city with essential emergency department equipment, including beds, monitors, and emergency trolleys.
• Between 24 and 30 November, one new case of Guillain-Barré Syndrome (GBS) was reported in Gaza, bringing the total suspected cases registered since 1 June to 142, including 21 deaths. GBS is a rare autoimmune disorder where the body’s immune system attacks its own nerves, causing weakness, pain, and sometimes paralysis. In Gaza, the abnormal surge in cases is driven by overcrowding because of destruction and displacement and the collapse of water and sanitation systems, which increase the risk of infections that can trigger the syndrome.

WASH

• On 4 December, the Cluster distributed 35,607 dignity kits and 2,208 hygiene kits in the North Gaza governorate, reaching about 45,000 people.
• Cluster partners installed 15 tap stands in the Al Satar area of Khan Younis, began repairs on Al Zarka well in Jabalya, continued water network repairs in Al Yarmouk and Shatia in Gaza city, and signed a new contract to repair two water wells, carry out maintenance and emergency repairs of 15 water networks, and ad-hoc flood mitigation activities.
• A 3000Kva electric generator has been installed in Beit Lahia Central water well which now has the capacity to provide 220 cubic meters of water per hour and serve 30,000 people in Beit Lahia city.
• As part of winterization efforts, cluster partners are cleaning inlet grills at both the Sheikh Radwan stormwater pond and Al-Samer sewage pump station in Gaza city. At Sheikh Radwan, water levels have dropped to 1.4 metres, partially reducing the risk of flooding; operating hours have been decreased to match inflow and maintain a steady water level.

Protection

• Child Protection
  • On 4 December, Child Protection (CP) partners distributed 2,000 clothing kits to children in need and supported 100 families of children with protection concerns with essential shelter items to help them cope with current conditions.
  • In the north, partners organized an orientation session for 35 frontline staff to strengthen their skills in child participation ahead of upcoming activities.

• Gender-Based Violence Prevention and Response
  • On 4 December, GBV partners provided psychosocial support to 150 people through individual consultations. In addition, awareness sessions on GBV, sexual exploitation and abuse prevention, sexual violence, and legal rights reached approximately 350 participants across the Strip, while specialized mental health support continued across Women and Girls Safe Spaces (WGSS).
  • On the same day, legal assistance, provided through individual consultations and group sessions, reached more than 60 people across the Strip, covering topics such as marriage, divorce, custody, guardianship, inheritance, and civil documentation.
  • On 5 December, a total of 400 women and girls received dignity kits and menstrual hygiene management (MHM) items through Women and Girls’ Safe Spaces (WGSSs) across the Strip, and an additional 3,000 dignity kits and MHM items were distributed to partners in northern Gaza to continue supporting vulnerable women and girls.

Education

• On 4 December, partners distributed 300 essential cleaning supply kits to 93 learning spaces in Khan Younis, Deir al Balah, and Gaza city. These aim to promote better hygiene practices within the learning spaces and help reduce the risk of communicable disease outbreaks, particularly critical during the winter season.
• On the same day, four High-Performance Tents (HPTs), each measuring 48 square meters, were installed in two schools east of Gaza city to expand in-person learning spaces and accommodate increased student enrollment.

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Gaza Humanitarian Response
Situation Report No. 38

4 December 2025
(As of 18:00 on 3 December 2025, unless otherwise noted)

HIGHLIGHTS

• In the last 10 days, six health service points have become newly functional across the Strip. Over sixty per cent of all health facilities, however, remain non-operational.
• During the month of November, at least 50 new Temporary Learning Spaces (TLS) were established across the Strip. Over 370 TLSs are currently functional in Gaza, providing in-person learning for approximately 215,000 children or 32 per cent of all school-aged population in Gaza.
• In five days, Shelter partners reached 4,400 families with critical shelter items across all Gaza governorates.

SITUATION OVERVIEW

On 3 December, reports of airstrikes, shelling, and gunfire continued in North Gaza’s Beit Lahiya area, east of Gaza city, east of Deir al Balah, east and southeast of Khan Younis, as well as north and north-east of Rafah city. According to the Gaza Ministry of Health, six people were killed and 16 injured.

The Israeli Defence Forces reported that four soldiers were injured in an attack by militants emerging from a tunnel in Rafah. As a result of the clashes in the area, all UN operations along Philadelphi Corridor were temporarily halted.

On 4 December, Israeli authorities confirmed that the remains transferred to them the evening before (SitRep #37) belonged to the last deceased Thai hostage. Presently, the body of one Israeli hostage is still believed to remain in the Gaza Strip.

Site Management Cluster partners are undertaking efforts to relocate approximately 4,000 people living along the Khan Younis shoreline in areas at risk of risk flooding and unstable sand cliffs. One thousand people have been prioritized for relocation, and 3,000 to receive in-situ shelter support. The cluster is working with the Khan Younis municipality to operationalize two safer relocation sites, while similar discussions are ongoing with the Deir al Balah and Gaza city municipalities to identify suitable land.

UNITED NATIONS-COORDINATED AID ENTRY^*

On 3 December, at least 4,860 pallets of aid administered by the UN and its partners were offloaded at Gaza’s crossings, based on data retrieved from the UN 2720 Mechanism dashboard at 19:00 on 4 December. About 70 per cent of these pallets contained food supplies, followed by water, sanitation and hygiene items (12 per cent), shelter supplies (11 per cent), nutrition supplies (5 per cent), and health supplies (2 per cent). At least 178 truckloads were offloaded at Kerem Shalom and 31 at Kissufim.

On the same day, UNOPS international monitors deployed at Gaza’s crossing verified the collection of at least 5,450 pallets of aid – 4,909 from Kerem Shalom between 08:30 and 15:45 and 541 from Zikim between 07:58 and 09:30. These comprised inter alia 3,118 pallets of food assistance, including flour, canned chickpeas and lentils, 1,687 pallets of dignity kits and 44 of hygiene kits, 153 of tents, 280 of blankets and winter clothes, 54 of sleeping mats, as well as 50 of mobility devices.

Overall, between the announcement of the ceasefire on 10 October, and 3 December, at least 137,902 pallets of humanitarian cargo were offloaded, and 119,191 pallets were collected from the different crossings. Only 2 per cent of all uplifted aid was intercepted during transit within Gaza, while over 117,000 pallets safely reached warehouses for onward distribution to people in need.

All the above data excludes bilateral donations and the commercial sector. 

As of 4 December, the Kerem Shalom, Zikim and Kissufim crossings remained operational, with humanitarian cargo offloading and uplifting alternating days between Zikim and Kissufim.

Since the ceasefire, UNOPS has collected 182 trucks of fuel into Gaza, corresponding to approximately 7 million litres of diesel and around 105,000 litres of petrol.

HUMANITARIAN RESPONSE

Health

• Between 24 November and 3 December, six additional health service points became operational across the Strip: one field hospital, one primary health care centre (PHC), and two medical points in Gaza City, one medical point in Khan Younis, as well as one PHC in Rafah. The total number of functioning health facilities has risen by approximately 17 per cent since the October ceasefire. More than 60 per cent of all health service points, however, remain non-operational across the Strip. 
• On 3 December, the Health Cluster facilitated the referral and transfer of the first patient to the Emirati Field Hospital in Rafah, which until recently had been inaccessible following the 2024 Rafah incursion. Presently, this is the only functioning medical facility serving the Rafah area.

Shelter

• Between 30 November and 3 December, Shelter partners reached 4,400 families across the Strip with critical shelter and NFI assistance. Supplies distributed included 552 clothing vouchers, 354 tents and 145 tarpaulins in North Gaza and Gaza city governorates, benefiting 1,302 households; 1,291 tarpaulins, 983 clothing kits, 556 blankets, 266 kitchen sets, and 87 tens in Deir al Balah and Khan Younis, to support 2,164 households in total, and 3,906 tarpaulins to 1,302 families in Rafah.

WASH

• WASH Cluster partners are rehabilitating five wells in the Beit Lahiya area of North Gaza, one of which will provide drinking water through the installation of a desalination plant. Repairs have also begun on three wells in Gaza city and a 10-metre damaged section has been replaced at Al Shati Camp. In Khan Younis, the Al Rahma water reservoir is now 50 per cent operational, while maintenance on a well in the governorate has been completed, and pumping is expected to start next week.
• Water production by the Southern Gaza Desalination Plant has increased following the addition of a high-pressure pump.
• Cluster partners are repairing water networks in Gaza city. Communal water tanks and bladders have been delivered for shelters and camps in Khan Younis, while two displacement sites in Deir Al Balah have been connected to municipal water networks.
• Partners are supporting winterization works, including clearing stormwater networks and manholes in streets adjacent to Nuseirat camp, in Deir al Balah.
• The repair of two sewage trucks for the Coastal Municipalities Water Utility (CMWU) operating in Deir al Balah was undertaken. Sewage system manholes are being assembled from rubble blocks due to the lack of cement or pre-cast concrete manholes.

Protection

• Between 30 November and 3 December, Protection Cluster partners collectively reached over 12,000 people through protection services, including psychosocial support, relief assistance, targeted support for people with disabilities, and community-based interventions.
• During the same reporting period, jointly with the Prevention of Sexual Exploitation and Abuse (PSEA) Network, mobile protection teams conducted 46 safeguarding visits at distribution points to ensure assistance was safe, accountable, and protection sensitive. Additionally, 13 people with disabilities were integrated into the Mobile Teams after completing training on Protection and Safeguarding monitoring at distribution sites.

• Gender-Based Violence Prevention and Response
  • Between 1 and 3 December, Gender-Based Violence (GBV) partners reached approximately 2,500 women and girls across the Strip with case management, cash for protection, awareness-raising, and targeted psychosocial support to address GBV.
  • During the same period, 1,000 dignity kits and menstrual hygiene management (MHM) items, were distributed via partners, particularly in northern Gaza and Khan Younis, based on assessed needs.
  • Additional small grants and resources were provided to partners to scale up services in Gaza city (including Beach camp area), Khan Younis, and Maghazi camp, in Deir al Balah.

• Mine Action
  • On 4 December, 2 Explosive Hazards Assessment (EHAs) were completed in Deir al Balah and Gaza city, bringing the total EHAs to 52 completed over the past week, most of them in support of rubble removal activities.
  • Explosive Ordnance Risk Education activities continue through five partners in Deir al Balah, Khan Younis, and Gaza city.
  • Mine action partners are working to expand their operational capacity; however, the lack of dedicated vehicles to access assessment sites remains a significant constraint.

Education

• During the month of November, at least 50 new Temporary Learning Spaces (TLSs) were established across the Strip, bringing the total of TLSs to more than 370 sites across the Strip that now provide in-person learning opportunities to approximately 215,000 school-aged children - up from 154,000 in October. Despite this progress, coverage remains limited to about 32 per cent of the school-aged population, highlighting the urgent need for additional resources to sustain the scale-up of TLSs and to ensure the dignified relocation of displaced populations currently sheltering in school buildings.

Nutrition

• On 1 December, the Nutrition Cluster visited a Stabilization Centre for the treatment of Severe Acute Malnutrition with medical complications and an Outpatient Therapeutic Program (OTP) site in Gaza city where they observed some improvements. While progress was noted in the malnutrition detection rate and supply availability at the OTP site, critical gaps persist at the Stabilization Centre including staffing, water shortages, and support for vulnerable children requiring specialized care or evacuation.

Site Management Cluster

• Site management interventions remain limited due to shortages of materials, access, and safety constraints, with partners covering only 30 per cent of known displacement sites. Over 1 million people in sites lack basic site management support, including drainage, planning, and community structures. The cluster continues to prioritize winterization works such as drainage pathways, and basic flood protection where possible.

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Your Activist Scoop

READ ABOUT THE SOMERVILLE WIN 

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$27 million in divestment victories.

Defend anti-Zionist students.

Plug in locally.

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5 december 2025

Rita Baroud is een Palestijnse journalist en Safe Haven Fellow aan het NIAS. Ze komt uit Gaza en leeft momenteel in ballingschap in Amsterdam. De komende tijd zal ze voor The Rights Forum een reeks essays schrijven, waarin ze onder meer reflecteert op hoe Europa omgaat met de genocide, en met haar als overlevende.

In haar krachtige eerste stuk beschrijft ze de dubbele moraal in het Westen. Hier zijn begrippen als vrijheid en gerechtigheid geen universele principes of rechten, betoogt Baroud, maar privileges. De vraag is steeds: voor wie?

Journalist Rita Baroud

'In Europa heb ik geleerd dat pijn wordt afgemeten aan geografie,' schrijft Baroud. 'In Parijs, in Amsterdam, in Brussel, in Berlijn hoor ik dezelfde verhaallijn, anders ingekleed: "We leven mee met de slachtoffers… maar de situatie is gecompliceerd."'

'In Oekraïne was de situatie niet gecompliceerd. In Rwanda was de situatie niet gecompliceerd. Toen al die mensen op één avond werden vermoord in een Frans café was de situatie niet gecompliceerd. Het wordt pas gecompliceerd nu het slachtoffer Palestijns is.'

'Het Westen wil een Palestijn die vriendelijk is, poëtisch, zacht, esthetisch dramatisch – maar onschadelijk voor de ethische orde. Het Westen heeft geen plaats voor de Palestijn die zonder omwegen wijst op de medeplichtigheid. Het wil verzet zonder verzet. Een lichaam zonder beschuldiging. Een verhaal zonder aanklacht.'

Mishandeling Palestijnse gevangenen op ‘bevel van hogerhand’

Onder veiligheidsminister Ben-Gvir worden Palestijnse gevangenen nóg slechter behandeld. Het Israëlische gevangenissysteem heeft ‘het ondenkbare genormaliseerd en het onmenselijke gelegaliseerd’, schrijft de Palestijnse journalist Rajaa Natour in een nieuw stuk op onze website.

Natour sprak over de verslechterende gevangenisomstandigheden met advocaat Ben Marmarelli. Hij biedt juridische bijstand aan Palestijnse ‘veiligheidsgevangenen', die lange straffen uitzitten in zwaarbewaakte gevangenissen.

De Israëlische minister van Nationale Veiligheid Itamar Ben-Gvir in december 2024. © UPI via Alamy

Marmarelli vertelde onder meer over de wijdverbreide verkrachting van Palestijnse gevangenen, onder wie zijn cliënt, door gevangenisbewakers. Nu is dat geen breaking news: verkrachting van Palestijnse gevangenen in Israëlische gevangenissen is oud nieuws.

Nieuw is wel dat de onthullingen nu in de schijnwerpers staan – en wel om twee redenen. Ten eerste doorbreken Palestijnse slachtoffers de barrière van stilte en schaamte en durven ze te vertellen over marteling en verkrachting.

Ten tweede verzamelen mensenrechtenorganisaties zoals het Palestijnse Centrum voor de Rechten van de Mens (PCHR) getuigenissen, documenteren ze dit seksuele geweld nauwgezet en presenteren ze het als een integraal onderdeel van de aanhoudende genocide in Gaza.

Documentaire | Het grotere plaatje

Eind juli verschijnen wereldwijd foto's in de media van uitgemergelde kinderen in Gaza. De beelden maken grote indruk, ook op de politiek. Eén foto springt eruit: Mohammed Al-Motowaq van anderhalf jaar, het jongetje oogt meer dood dan levend.

Al snel volgt kritiek: Mohammed is ziek, hij zou geen honger lijden. Premier Netanyahu spreekt van 'fake news'. Leon de Winter noemt de beelden 'manipulatief en kwaadaardig'. BILD beschuldigt een Palestijnse fotograaf van enscenering. En NU.nl verwijdert de foto.

Hoe ontstaat deze beeldvorming? Medialogica maakte een goede documentaire over het onderwerp, die nu op NPO Start te zien is. Het werd een verhaal over het zwartmaken van foto's en fotografen, en een kort geding tegen de NOS.

Nederland niet naar Songfestival wegens deelname Israël

Nederland gaat volgend jaar niet meedoen aan het Eurovisie Songfestival. Dat maakte omroep AVROTROS gisteren bekend, nadat duidelijk was geworden dat Israël niet wordt uitgesloten door EBU, de organisator van het Songfestival.

De Europese publieke omroepen kwamen gisteren bijeen bij de EBU in Genève om te praten over de toekomst van het Songfestival. Daar pleitten AVROTROS en publieke omroepen uit Ierland, IJsland, Spanje en Slovenië voor het uitsluiten van Israël vanwege de oorlog in Gaza.

Een protestbord bij een demonstratie in Londen: 'Koop geen genocide. Boycot Israël. Geen wapens, geen handel, geen Europees Kampioenschap, geen Olympische Spelen en geen Eurovisie.' [c] Avpics/Alamy

Andere landen, waaronder Duitsland en de organisator van de volgende editie Oostenrijk, waren fel tegen een boycot van Israël. Het kwam uiteindelijk niet tot een stemming, waardoor de deelname van Israël alsnog door kan gaan.

Naast Nederland hebben ook de Spaanse, Ierse en Sloveense publieke omroepen laten weten niet mee te doen aan het Songfestival volgend jaar. IJsland en België nemen op een later moment een besluit over deelname.

Nederlanse pleitbezorgers van Palestina geëerd door Palestijnse missie

Op zaterdag 29 november, de Internationale Dag van Solidariteit met het Palestijnse Volk, was The Rights Forum te gast bij de Palestijnse missie in Den Haag. Samen met PAX, Amnesty International, Save the Children en Oxfam Novib werden wij bedankt voor onze inzet voor de rechten van het Palestijnse volk.

De Palestijnse missie schreef op Facebook dat deze dag bedoeld is om 'alle onbekende helden van internationale solidariteit met Palestina' te eren. Ambassadeur Ammar Hijazi benadrukte dat echte solidariteit betekent dat het Palestijnse volk wordt gezien, gehoord en niet wordt uitgewist.

In dit kader eerde hij de organisaties voor hun onvermoeibare inzet voor rechtvaardigheid, vrede en vrijheid voor Palestijnen. Gerard Jonkman (The Rights Forum) en Pim Kraan (Save the Children) namen de erkenning namens de coalitie in ontvangst.

Namens 40.000 Nederlanders: sluit de genocide geldkraan!

Deze week boden wij samen met De Goede Zaak en SOMO onze petitie Sluit de genocide geldkraan namens ruim 40 duizend Nederlanders aan bij de Tweede Kamer. Bij de overhandiging waren Kamerleden Sarah Dobbe (SP), Stephan van Baarle (DENK), Mpanzu Bamenga (D66) en Ines Kostić (PvdD) aanwezig.

Wij bedanken iedereen die de petitie heeft ondertekend en helpen verspreiden. Met jullie steun hebben we opnieuw een krachtig signaal afgegeven aan de Tweede Kamer en de Nederlandse politiek: de geldkraan voor het genocidale Israëlische regime moet nú gesloten worden. Uit onze agenda
zaterdag 6 december t/m zaterdag 13 december
DEMONSTRATIES EN WAKES
 UTRECHT DOORDEWEEKSE DAGEN 08.30 - 09.30 (donderdagen vanaf 08.00) | Dagelijks stilteprotest voor Palestina, tegen genocide en bezetting (Neude, langs het fietspad)

 GRONINGEN ZA 6 DEC 13.00 | Tweewekelijkse wake van Vrouwen in het Zwart (Waagplein)

 MAASTRICHT ZA 6 DEC 16.00 | Maandelijkse wake van Vrouwen in het Zwart (Markt, bij het standbeeld van J.P. Minckelers, aan de kant van de Boschstraat)

 HAARLEM ZO 7 DEC 14.00 | Wekelijks protest tegen de onderdrukking van de Palestijnen (Grote Markt)

 LEIDEN ZO 7 DEC 13.00 | Demonstratiemars en menselijke keten voor Palestina (Beestenmarkt)

 DEN HAAG DO 11 DEC 12.00 | Sit-in van Rijksambtenaren bij het ministerie van Buitenlandse Zaken, Rijnstraat 8

 STATIONS IN NEDERLAND DO 11 DEC 18.00 | Wekelijkse lawaaidemonstratie op stations in heel Nederland: Stations Stations Alkmaar (17.30) Almere Centrum, Amersfoort, Amsterdam CS, Arnhem, Assen, Ede/Wageningen, Enschede, Groningen, Hengelo, Hilversum (17.30), Leiden, Lelystad (17.30), Maastricht, Nijmegen, Purmerend (17.00), Sassenheim (17.00 uur), Tiel, Tilburg, Utrecht, Zaandam (17.00), Zutphen

Let op: The Rights Forum probeert de verschillende acties in Nederland zo goed mogelijk bij te houden, maar dat is niet altijd goed mogelijk. Houd de sociale media-pagina's van de plaatselijke solidariteitsorganisaties in de gaten voor de meest actuele informatie.


CULTURELE EN ANDERE EVENEMENTEN
 AMSTERDAM ZO 7 DEC 11.00 | A Day in Palestine: een dag vol kunst, eten, gesprekken, film en muziek (Tolhuistuin - Zonzij, IJpromenade 2)

 AMSTERDAM ZO 7 DEC 13.00 | Dekolonisatie Conferentie van LinksBoven (IIRE, Lombokstraat 40)

 ENSCHEDE ZO 7 DEC 13.00 | Programma van Amnesty in het kader van de dag voor de rechten van de mens in samenwerking met Concordia en Vrouwen voor Vrede. Het programma omvat o.a. een vertoning van korte film Close Your Eyes Hind, en een nagesprek met Regisseur Amir Zaza en directeur van The Rights Forum Gerard Jonkman (Concordia, Oude Markt 15)

 AMSTERDAM WO 10 DEC 20.00 | Lezing: Why does Europe continue to support Israel? (Pakhuis de Zwijger)

 UTRECHT VR 12 DEC 14.00 | SIVMO-PAX Lezing 2025 met de Palestijnse fotograaf Mohammed Zaanoun (Kantoor PAX, Sint Jacobsstraat 12)

 LIVESTREAM ZA 13 DEC 34.00 | The Rights Forum in Conversation with Ilan Pappé and Mariam Barghouti. Het evenement is uitverkocht, maar is te volgen via livestream. Meld je hier aan.


 Onze agenda wordt doorlopend aangevuld. Bekijk de hele agenda

2025.

5 december 2025

Humanitarian Situation Update #346
West Bank

4 December 2025

“My tractor was everything to my work and my family’s income.” Iyad, a Palestinian farmer from Burqa, Nablus, standing next to his tractor, set on fire by settlers in early December 2025. Photo by OCHA

Key Highlights

• Half of the 227 Palestinians killed by Israeli forces or settlers between 1 January and 1 December in the West Bank were in Jenin and Nablus governorates. 
• Operations by Israeli forces trigger new displacement, movement restrictions, school closures, and service disruption in communities already affected by recurrent militarized operations since early 2025.
• Over 95,000 Palestinians were affected by expanded operations by Israeli forces in the northern West Bank this week, particularly in Jenin and Tubas governorates.
• OCHA documented 1,680 attacks by Israeli settlers in more than 270 communities across the West Bank so far in 2025 - an average of five incidents per day.
• The olive harvest continues to be marked by widespread settler violence, with 178 attacks documented in October and November in 88 communities.

Humanitarian Developments

• Between 25 November and 1 December, Israeli forces killed four Palestinians, including one child, bringing the total number of Palestinians killed by Israeli forces or settlers in 2025 to 227. Nearly half of all fatalities this year were recorded in the Jenin and Nablus governorates. During the same reporting period, Israeli forces and settlers injured 212 Palestinians across the West Bank, including East Jerusalem. Over 75 per cent of all injuries (163) occurred during the Israeli forces’ operation in Tubas governorate, including 107 people injured by live ammunition and 56 due to physical assault or tear-gas inhalation (see more information below). Also, this week, in Hebron city, a 17-year-old Palestinian boy injured an Israeli female soldier in a car-ramming attack, after which Israeli forces shot and killed him. The following are details of the incidents that resulted in fatalities:

  • On 26 November 2025, Israeli forces shot and killed a Palestinian man during a raid by Israeli forces into homes and shops in Qabatiya town, in Jenin governorate. According to local sources, Palestinians threw stones at Israeli forces, and the forces fired live ammunition. The Israeli military stated that they opened fire at the man after he threw an improvised explosive device (IED) at them, and they destroyed other IEDs found in his car. 

  • On 27 November, Israeli forces killed and withheld the bodies of two unarmed Palestinian men whom they shot at close range in Jenin city during a raid concentrated in the eastern side of Jenin refugee camp, particularly Jabal Abu Dhair neighbourhood. The incident was caught on film by a TV channel. The Israeli military stated that they are investigating the incident. In a statement on 28 November, the spokesperson for the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights said the Office was “appalled at the brazen killing” of the two Palestinians, describing it as “an apparent summary execution.” OHCHR stressed that impunity for Israeli forces’ “unlawful use of force, and ever-growing Israeli settler violence, must end,” urging independent, prompt and effective investigations and accountability.

  • On 1 December, a Palestinian carried out a car ramming attack at one of the checkpoints on Road 35 near Farsh al Hawa leading to Hebron city, injuring an Israeli female soldier. Israeli forces sealed the entrances to Hebron city, deployed flying checkpoints, and conducted raids across the city, including in the yards of four hospitals, in search of the assailant. On 2 December, Israeli forces announced that they had killed the assailant in Hebron city. He was later identified to be a Palestinian boy from Hebron city, and his body has been withheld by Israeli authorities.

• On 2 December (outside the reporting period), Israeli forces shot and killed a Palestinian man near Umm Safa village, in Ramallah governorate, after he stabbed and injured two soldiers when he was stopped for inspection at a flying checkpoint on Road 465. Israeli forces subsequently closed nearby checkpoints and road gates in western Ramallah governorate. Additionally, the forces broke into Beit Rima village, the hometown of the man, and searched his family’s house.

• Between 25 November and 1 December, OCHA documented the demolition of 11 Palestinian-owned structures for lacking Israeli-issued building permits, which are almost impossible for Palestinians to obtain. Six of the structures were in four communities in Area C of the West Bank, while five were in Beit Hanina and Sur Bahir in East Jerusalem. Among the demolished structures in Area C were an under construction, three-storey residential building in Al Khader village, in Bethlehem governorate, and a 1,200-square-metre cow farm in Jinsafut village in Qalqiliya governorate. In total, five people, including a child, were displaced in one incident in East Jerusalem, and 48 people, including 20 children, were otherwise affected.

• On 1 December, Israeli forces raided and sealed the offices of the Union of Agricultural Work Committees (UAWC) in Al Bireh and Hebron cities, posting military closure orders on the gates of both premises. During the raids, Israeli forces vandalized office contents, confiscated all electronic devices and documents, and detained employees, keeping them blindfolded and handcuffed, including several women who were released after a few hours. In Al Bireh city, Palestinians threw stones at the forces, who fired rubber bullets and tear-gas canisters, injuring four Palestinians. UAWC is a Palestinian non-governmental organisation that has supported farmers and rural communities across the West Bank since the late 1980s. The UN Human Rights Office (OHCHR) in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT) said the raid “comes amidst an escalating Israeli targeting of Palestinian civil society and human rights defenders, most recently in the context of the olive harvest season.”

Operations by Israeli Forces in the Northern West Bank

• Israeli forces continue to carry out large-scale operations across the northern West Bank, particularly in parts of Jenin and Tubas governorates, imposing curfews, taking over residential buildings and converting them into military posts, and significantly restricting movement and Palestinians’ access to essential services. On 28 November, Save the Children reported that these operations forced it to “halt its remedial education classes and child protection work, including mental health support, in these areas, with no indication of when programmes might be able to resume,” affecting over 700 children.
• Between 25 November and 1 December, expanded operations triggered new displacement, movement restrictions and school closures, and disrupted access to basic services, affecting over 95,000 Palestinians and compounding the humanitarian impact on communities already affected by recurrent militarized operations since early 2025. In some cases, families have remained displaced. For example, at least 11 families comprising about 55 people have remained displaced since 7 November after their homes were converted into military posts in Ya’bad town (pop ~16,000), in Jenin governorate, where Israeli forces continued to carry out extensive raids, primarily in the southwestern area of the town.

• On 26 November, Israeli forces carried out a large-scale, four-day operation across Tubas city and the towns of Tammun, Aqqaba, Tayasir, and Wadi al-Fara’, with a combined population of over 58,000 Palestinians. The operation involved the use of drones, aircraft, bulldozers and wide-ranging movement restrictions, resulted in the injury of 163 Palestinians, and caused extensive damage to homes and infrastructure, displacement, and prolonged disruption of access to essential services. On 28 November, Israeli forces withdrew from Tammun, where some homes that were converted into military posts sustained extensive damage and a 1,700-metre road was destroyed. As a result, the main water network between eastern Tammun and the communities of Khirbet ‘Atuf and Khirbet as Ras al Ahmar was destroyed, causing a three-day water cut that affected nearly 17,000 people and greenhouses. On the same day, the operation expanded into Al Far’a refugee camp, where Israeli forces raided or occupied at least 10 residential structures, forcing at least 20 families to leave their homes, imposed a curfew, as well as detained and interrogated dozens of Palestinians before withdrawing.

• On 27 November, Israeli forces shot and injured two Palestinian children (aged 14 and 16 years) with live ammunition in Jenin refugee camp, shortly after the Palestinian DCL coordinated a two-hour window for 12 displaced families to briefly return and collect belongings from their homes, which they have been unable to access for nearly ten months. According to UNRWA, nearly 32,000 Palestinians, including more than 12,000 children, continue to be displaced from three refugee camps in the northern West Bank.

• Since 30 November, in Salfit governorate, Israeli forces have carried out extensive operations in multiple villages, with movement restrictions still in place as of the time of reporting. In Az Zawiya village, Israeli forces blocked the main entrance with an earth mound, affecting roughly 7,000 Palestinians, searched homes, confiscated security cameras, and arrested more than 30 people. An elderly man was physically assaulted and injured by Israeli forces. Five schools were forced to close, affecting about 1,300 students. In nearby Mas-ha village, Israeli forces closed the only access road with military jeeps and carried out multiple home raids, detaining residents for several hours. In parallel, road gates leading to Deir Ballut and Rafat villages were closed.
• On 1 December, a day after withdrawing from Tammun town following a four-day operation (see above), Israeli forces launched another large-scale, three-day operation in Tubas city and the surrounding towns and villages, including Aqqaba, and imposed an open-ended curfew. During the operation, Israeli forces closed five main roads with earth mounds, including three in Tubas city and two in Aqqaba, and several secondary roads, severely restricting movement for about 30,000 Palestinians. In both towns, Israeli forces converted at least eight residential buildings, each consisting of multiple homes, into military posts, forcibly displacing at least 11 families.
• On the afternoon of 2 December, Israeli forces launched a three-day operation in the southern outskirts of Jenin city, imposing an open-ended curfew that initially affected Qabatiya town (~28,000 people) and was expanded on 3 December to Misliya village (~3,300 people). According to Qabatiya municipality, Israeli forces searched over 20 houses, intermittently occupied rooftops and turned them into observation points, and forcibly evacuated at least two families from their homes, converting them into military posts and field interrogation centres for the duration of the operation. In Misliya village, where the curfew was announced less than an hour before taking effect, one school was abruptly evacuated. The Palestinian DCL reported that ambulance movements were permitted without prior coordination in both communities.

Israeli Settler Attacks

• With the olive harvest season nearing completion, the 2025 season has been marked by widespread settler violence, severe access restrictions, and low yields. Between 1 October and 30 November 2025, OCHA documented 178 olive-harvest-related settler attacks resulting in casualties, property damage or both. These incidents included attacks on farmers inside or on their way to olive groves, theft of crops and harvesting equipment, and vandalism of olive and other trees and saplings. While lower than the 213 attacks recorded during the corresponding period in 2024, this figure remains significantly above pre-2023 levels, when annual totals for the same period were roughly in the range of 30 to 60 attacks. The geographic scope of attacks has expanded, with 88 Palestinian towns and villages affected so far this year, the highest number recorded since 2020, more than double the number of communities affected in 2022, and four times the number of communities affected in 2020. Damage to olive trees and saplings has similarly reached its highest level in six years, with over 6,000 trees and saplings vandalized in 2025, nearly double the trees and saplings vandalized in 2024 and three times the levels documented in 2020 (see chart).

• Between 25 November and 1 December, OCHA documented 35 Israeli settler attacks against Palestinians that resulted in casualties, property damage or both in the West Bank, including East Jerusalem. The attacks led to the injury of 29 Palestinians, including 20 by Israeli settlers and nine by Israeli forces. More than 150 Palestinian-owned (mainly olive) trees and saplings were vandalized. The number of settler attacks during this past week has been consistent with the weekly average of approximately 35 attacks recorded since the beginning of 2025. OCHA documented 1,680 attacks by Israeli settlers in more than 270 communities across the West Bank so far in 2025 - an average of five incidents per day.

• Settler attacks, threats, and harassment continued across several governorates this week, predominantly affecting communities located near old or newly established settlement outposts. Incidents involved repeated assaults, raids, and damage to agricultural and water infrastructure, including in communities where some families had been displaced following settler violence. Key incidents resulting in casualties and property damage included the following:

  • In Bethlehem governorate, residents of Khallet al Louza village, with a population of about 700 people, have faced sustained attacks by Israeli settlers since September 2023, following the establishment of a settlement outpost on the village’s land. The situation further intensified after additional outpost structures, including new caravans, were installed in August 2024. OCHA has documented 21 settler attacks in the village since the establishment and subsequent expansion of these outposts, compared with only three attacks recorded between January 2017 and August 2023. This week, on 29 November, 10 Palestinians, including one woman, were injured when settlers attacked a family after the landowner asked a settler grazing sheep inside his land to leave. Settlers called in additional settlers from a nearby settlement outpost and began throwing stones at the house, injuring nine people and damaging a vehicle and two surveillance cameras. During the attack, settlers opened live fire, injuring one person. A PRCS team treated six people on-site and transported four others, including the gunshot casualty, to hospital.

  • Also in Bethlehem governorate, Israeli settlers attacked Palestinian farmers ploughing their land on 27 November in Arab ar Rashaydeh Bedouin community, injuring nine people, including four children. When the farmers refused settler demands to leave, clashes ensued. Israeli forces intervened by firing tear-gas canisters, one of which landed in the yard of a kindergarten, causing cases of tear-gas inhalation among children. In total, nine people were injured and received medical treatment by a PRCS team. On 14 September, four families comprising 31 people, including 23 children, were forcibly displaced from this community following repeated settler raids and threats to burn their homes and belongings.

  • In Jericho governorate, in Ein ad Duyuk al Fauqa village, settler attacks intensified over the past two months, reportedly by settlers believed to be from a settlement outpost established in August 2024, near three outposts established in the area since 2012. Residents report near-daily raids and harassment by settlers from this outpost, heightening insecurity. Settlers from this outpost are also believed to have perpetrated attacks against the nearby Bedouin community of Al Mu’arajjat East, whose residents were fully displaced following two major settler attacks in October 2024 and July 2025. This week, on 27 November, settlers broke into Ein ad Duyuk al Fauqa on quad bikes, moved among the shelters, and harassed residents. On 30 November, settlers raided a house hosting four foreign activists present to support the community in the context of recurrent settler attacks; settlers broke down the door, physically assaulted and injured the activists, and stoned the house, smashing windows and solar panels. All four were transported to hospital.

  • In Ramallah governorate, in Rantis village, settler attacks have sharply increased following the establishment of a new settlement outpost in September 2024, contributing to the displacement of two herding families in 2024 and 2025 and sustained restrictions on access to agricultural and grazing land. Since the establishment of the settlement outpost in September 2024, OCHA has documented 17 settler attacks in Rantis, compared with only one incident recorded between 2017 and the period prior to the outpost’s installation. This week, at least three settler attacks were documented in the community. On 25 November, settlers broke into privately owned farmland, destroyed about 20 olive saplings, damaged two water tanks, and cut a metal fence. On 26 November, settlers physically assaulted a Palestinian farmer while he was working his land, beating him with a stick and injuring his hand before chasing him out and preventing his return. On 28 November, settlers raided the area again, destroying dozens of olive saplings, vandalizing stone fencing, and damaging the agricultural water network.

  • Also in Ramallah governorate, on 30 November, Israeli settlers damaged critical water infrastructure in Ein Samiya, where a Bedouin community was fully displaced due to settler violence in May 2024. Settlers raided Ein Samiya spring area and damaged the connection cables linking the well to the main monitoring and supply system, which serves some 100,000 Palestinians in 20 villages. While the Jerusalem Water Undertaking (JWU) managed to maintain the water flow without interruption, it reported repeated daily settler incursions targeting the facility, posing serious risks to the continuity and security of the water supply. So far in 2025, OCHA has documented at least 10 attacks in which settlers infiltrated the spring area in Ein Samiya, damaged surveillance cameras, stole equipment belonging to the JWU, and assaulted maintenance staff who arrived to carry out repairs.

• For key figures and additional breakdowns of casualties, displacement and settler violence between January 2005 and October 2025, please refer to the OCHA West Bank September 2025 Snapshot.

Funding

• As of 4 December, Member States disbursed approximately $1.6 billion out of the $4 billion (40 per cent) requested to meet the most critical humanitarian needs of 3 million out of 3.3 million people identified as requiring assistance in Gaza and the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, under the 2025 Flash Appeal for the Occupied Palestinian Territory. Nearly 88 per cent of the requested funds is for the humanitarian response in Gaza, with just over 12 per cent for the West Bank. In November, the oPt Humanitarian Fund managed 128 ongoing projects, totalling $73.5 million, to address urgent needs in the Gaza Strip (89 per cent) and the West Bank (11 per cent). Of these projects, 61 are being implemented by international NGOs, 51 by national NGOs and 16 by UN agencies. Notably, 58 out of the 77 projects implemented by international NGOs or the UN are being implemented in collaboration with national NGOs. For more information, please see OCHA’s Financial Tracking Service webpage and the oPt HF webpage.

2024.

JASMIJN VAN DE GOEDE ZAAK

5 december 2025

Dinsdag overhandigden we ruim 40.000 handtekeningen tegen handel die bijdraagt aan Israëls genocide op de Palestijnen. Dankjewel voor jouw steun!

Ondanks het staakt-het-vuren gaat de genocide in Gaza gewoon door. [1] Ook neemt het geweld van kolonisten tegen Palestijnen toe. Geen enkel land ter wereld investeert meer in Israël dan Nederland.[1] We dragen daarmee actief bij aan genocide en illegale bezettingen.

Om dit te stoppen zijn we in juli een petitie gestart met SOMO en The Rights Forum. [2] Namens ruim 40.000 (!) mensen hebben we deze aan de Tweede Kamer aangeboden. Nu zijn zij aan zet. 

Vóór de verkiezingen zijn er veel moties voor sterkere maatregelen tegen de genocide gesneuveld, omdat er nét geen meerderheid voor was. Maar met de nieuwe Tweede Kamer is een andere koers mogelijk.

Nederland mag niet stil blijven. Het Genocideverdrag verplicht ons om genocide te voorkomen en te stoppen, door alles te doen waartoe we in staat zijn. Met het onderzoek van SOMO [3], waar onze petitie op is gebaseerd, wordt duidelijk dat Nederland genoeg kan doen én zou moeten doen.

Als we de geldstromen van Nederland naar Israël kunnen minderen, wordt het voor Israël moeilijker om de economie van genocide en bezetting draaiende te houden. Daarom moet Nederland alle handel die bijdraagt aan genocide stoppen! 

Wij blijven niet stil. Dankjewel voor je steun.

Strijdbare groet, 

Jasmijn van DeGoedeZaak

[1] NOS: nieuwe luchtaanvallen op Gaza  

[2] Petitie: Sluit de Genocide Geldkraan

[3] Onderzoek van SOMO over investeerders in Israël.

2023.

4 december 2025

Humanitarian Situation Update #345
Gaza Strip

04 December 2025

An aid worker with patients requiring medical evacuation for advanced treatment not available in Gaza. Photo by the World Health Organization.

Key Highlights

• Forty-two health facilities, including four hospitals, have opened or resumed operations since the ceasefire in Gaza, while 61 per cent of all health service points remain non-functional, the Health Cluster reports.
• Amid limited rehabilitation services and shortages of assistive devices, persons with disabilities face heightened protection risks during winter, particularly in overcrowded sites and unsuitable shelters, according to the Protection Cluster.
• UNICEF reports that two-thirds of children under five consumed two or fewer food groups in October, while winter conditions, overcrowding and rising disease risks are worsening vulnerabilities among children.
• Most of the debris in Gaza could be cleared within seven years, UNDP estimates, provided there is stable access, uninterrupted operations, and sufficient funding.

Context Overview

• Over the past week, airstrikes, shelling and gunfire continued to be reported across the Gaza Strip, with the majority of incidents occurring in the vicinity of the so-called “Yellow Line,” resulting in casualties. In areas where the Israeli military remains deployed, comprising over 50 per cent of the Gaza Strip, daily detonations of residential buildings continue to be reported and access to humanitarian assets, public infrastructure and agricultural land remains restricted or altogether barred. Access to the sea remains prohibited.

• Over the past week, shifts in the yellow cement blocks marking the so-called “Yellow Line” have prompted new waves of displacement, particularly from At Tuffah and Ash Shuja’iyyeh neighbourhoods in eastern Gaza city to Ad Daraj, An Naser and other parts of central Gaza city. According to the Protection Cluster, coupled with winter weather, these compounding factors have disrupted service delivery, decreased community participation in planned protection activities, and heightened protection risks and psychological distress, particularly among vulnerable groups including children, persons with disabilities, older persons, and female-headed households. Between 26 November and 2 December, the Site Management Cluster (SMC) reported that more than 20,500 displacement movements were recorded across the Strip, including more than 5,000 movements from eastern to central Gaza city. This is compared with over 17,000 movements in the preceding week. While in the first month following the ceasefire, displacement movements were mainly associated with returns to places of origin, displacement over the past month have been primarily related to heavy rainfall and flooding. Since the ceasefire came into effect on 10 October, over 774,000 displacement movements have been recorded, of which about 639,000 were from southern to northern Gaza.

• On 29 November, the United Nations Secretary-General marked the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People by highlighting the horrific suffering in Gaza after two years of hostilities and the glimmer of hope that the recent ceasefire offers. The UN Chief emphasized that “all parties must work in good faith towards solutions that restore and uphold international law […] Lifesaving humanitarian aid must be allowed to enter Gaza at scale, and the international community must continue to stand firmly with UNRWA – an irreplaceable lifeline for millions of Palestinians, including Palestine refugees.”

• On 1 December, the World Health Organization (WHO) facilitated the medical evacuation of 18 patients from Gaza, in addition to 54 companions. According to WHO, since October 2023, 10,620 patients have been evacuated along with 12,074 companions. This includes 235 patients and 708 companions who have been evacuated since the ceasefire. More than 16,500 patients, including 4,000 children, still require medical evacuation, as the advanced care they need is not available in the Strip. WHO continues to call for additional support and the opening of all evacuation routes, particularly to the West Bank, including East Jerusalem.

• According to the MoH in Gaza, between 26 November and 3 December, 11 Palestinians were killed, 16 were injured and 20 bodies were recovered from under the rubble. This brings the casualty toll among Palestinians since 7 October 2023, as reported by the MoH, to 70,117 fatalities and 170,999 injuries. According to the MoH, the total number includes 299 fatalities who were retroactively added between 21 and 28 November after their identification details were approved by a ministerial committee. MoH reported that since the ceasefire, 360 Palestinians were killed, 922 were injured and 617 bodies were retrieved from under the rubble.

• According to the Israeli military, between 26 November and 3 December, as of noon, no Israeli soldiers were killed in Gaza. The casualty toll among Israeli soldiers since the beginning of the Israeli ground operation in October 2023 stands at 471 fatalities and 2,984 injuries. According to Israeli forces and official Israeli sources cited in the media, more than 1,671 Israelis and foreign nationals have been killed, the majority on 7 October 2023 and its immediate aftermath. As of noon on 3 December, it is estimated that the bodies of two deceased hostages remain in the Gaza Strip.

• Coordination with Israeli authorities continues to be required for humanitarian convoy movements by the UN and its partners in Gaza, to crossings as well as in or near other areas where Israeli forces remain deployed. Between 26 November and 2 December, humanitarian organizations coordinated 54 missions with the Israeli authorities, of which 38 were facilitated, seven were cancelled, five were impeded and four were denied. At present, three crossings remain open. Kerem Shalom is used for both cargo and staff movements, including medical evacuations, while Zikim and Kissufim are used exclusively for cargo. Zikim and Kissufim operate on an alternating schedule: when one is open for cargo offloading, the other is open for cargo uplifting. Kerem Shalom is currently the only crossing where both processes can occur on the same day. The Philadelphi Corridor remains the sole route available for movements to Kerem Shalom crossing, as the southern section of Salah Al Din Road remains inaccessible.

• The rubble generated by the destruction in Gaza is accumulated in large debris fields, blocking roads and key access routes and limiting the movement of people, goods and emergency services. The Debris Management Working Group reports that Gaza faces an immense recovery challenge, with over 80 per cent of buildings damaged or destroyed. Debris also poses significant health and environmental hazards, often contaminated with explosives, asbestos, industrial by-products, and medical waste. According to UNDP, clearing debris is hindered by several factors, including contamination with explosives and hazardous materials, restricted access to priority sites, inconsistent fuel supplies, and the need for permits from Israeli authorities to bring in specialized equipment. UNDP emphasizes that if these challenges are removed, through stable operating conditions, unimpeded access and adequate funding, most of the rubble could be cleared within seven years.

Access to Emergency Food Assistance and Nutrition Services

• Towards the end of November, Food Security Sector (FSS) partners further expanded food assistance across the Gaza Strip, delivering more than 1.5 million hot meals per day through 213 community kitchens, including over 340,000 meals in North Gaza and Gaza city and 1.2 million in Deir al Balah and Khan Younis. As part of the November assistance cycle, nearly 1.4 million people (273,000 households) were assisted with general food distributions through 59 sites, and since 16 November the ration size has been increased to two food parcels and one 25-kilogram flour bag per family. Bread production has also improved, since the 1 December, with 19 UN-supported bakeries producing 180,000 two-kilogram bundles daily, complemented by about 370,000 loaves from one FSS partner.

• While market activity is slowly resuming, dietary diversity remains poor, with essential protein sources still largely unavailable or unaffordable. Limited cooking gas continues to constrain the operations of some community kitchens and bakeries. According to the Global Price Watch – October 2025, released on 30 November by the Famine Early Warning Systems Network (FEWS NET), food prices fell sharply in October but remained well above the levels prior to October 2023. In early November, with the ceasefire entering its fifth week, families struggled financially due to a lack of cash, and many could not afford basic food items despite the drop in prices.

• On 28 November, the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) stated: “With more than two-thirds of young children continuing to consume two or fewer food groups [in October], combined with limited access to health services, inadequate water and sanitation, and sub-optimal feeding practices, the entire under-five population of 320,000 children is at risk of acute malnutrition.” Despite increased access to services, major gaps persist, with winter conditions, overcrowding and elevated disease risks further heightening the vulnerability of children. Partners report that winterization supplies are being depleted faster than they can be replenished, underscoring the need for sustained, unhindered humanitarian access.

• While caseloads remain among the highest recorded and nearly five times higher than during the February 2025 ceasefire, acute malnutrition admissions have declined since August, reflecting progress in treating and preventing acute malnutrition among children in Gaza, according to UNICEF. In October, Nutrition Cluster partners screened more than 102,000 children aged 6-59 months, reflecting improved access in Khan Younis and Deir al Balah, but there were still limited services in Gaza city at that time, with only 6,000 children screened in the city. Of those screened, nearly 9,300 children under five years were identified with acute malnutrition, including more than 7,300 children with moderate acute malnutrition (MAM) and about 1,900 with severe acute malnutrition (SAM) who were admitted for treatment. Since the ceasefire, the number of acute malnutrition treatment points in Gaza city has increased from seven to 26, allowing improved access to life-saving services for children suffering from acute malnutrition, according to UNICEF. 

• Needs among pregnant and breastfeeding women (PBW) remain substantial. In October, partners screened nearly 45,000 PBW for acute malnutrition, of whom over 8,000 were enrolled in programmes for the management of acute malnutrition, according to the Nutrition Cluster. During the same period, UNICEF reported that it distributed fortified high-energy biscuits to more than 13,000 PBW, multiple micronutrient supplements to more than 5,900 PBW, iron and folic acid to more than 6,700 PWB, and vitamin A supplements to over 15,000 children aged 6-59 months. These services help curb a nutritional decline among mothers and young children who continue to face displacement, food shortages and limited access to care.

Access to Health Care

• Health facilities and services have expanded to improve health-care delivery across the Gaza Strip, where 61 per cent of health service points remain non-functional, placing significant strain on the health system. According to the Health Cluster, since the ceasefire and as of 3 December, 42 health service points have become operational, all partially, including four hospitals, one field hospital, 16 primary health-care centres (PHC), and 21 medical points. These include both newly established and reopened facilities. Among the new facilities is a 150-bed, field hospital which opened on 19 November in Gaza city and is operated by International Medical Corps, providing outpatient services including prenatal care, non-communicable disease care, mental health support and physiotherapy. The inpatient capacity plan is to set up 200 surgical and non-surgical beds. The Paediatric Intensive Care Unit at Al Shifa Hospital, with a capacity of seven beds, was also inaugurated following the completion of renovation works, according to the MoH.

• According to Medical Aid for Palestinians (MAP), functional hospitals remain overwhelmed with critically injured and malnourished patients, as the entry of medical supplies has not increased in any meaningful way. For example, testimonies collected by MAP indicate that Nasser, Al Shifa and Patient’s Friends Benevolent Society (PFBS) hospitals are facing severe shortages of essential drugs and supplies, including IV fluids, anaesthesia medications, and gauze, which are fundamental to keeping emergency and surgical services operational. According to MAP, one of the most critical shortages is a lifesaving medication for more than 1,100 patients who rely on kidney dialysis to survive amid severe shortages of dialysis beds. Orthopaedic teams at Nasser and Al Shifa report being forced to re-use items such as external fixators for amputees, which can significantly increase the risk of infection and hinder recovery from limb loss. Diagnostic capacity has similarly been compromised, with only one functioning CT machine at Al-Ahli Hospital in northern Gaza, forcing clinicians to ration imaging to the most critical cases and disrupting MAP’s own diagnostic referral pathways.

• The MoH in the Gaza Strip warned this week that severe challenges are threatening the continuity of specialized eye-care services, as extensive damage to diagnostic and surgical equipment has greatly limited surgical capacity and increased waiting times, while critically low stocks of essential ophthalmic medications have gravely affected thousands of patients. MoH highlighted that 4,000 glaucoma patients are now at high risk of permanent vision loss due to the lack of necessary treatment and limited surgical options. MoH urgently called for the immediate entry of specialized medication and diagnostic equipment to prevent further deterioration of eye-care services.

• According to the UN Population Fund (UNFPA), access to sexual and reproductive health (SRH) services remains limited as health facilities in Gaza continue to be overstretched and under-resourced. Recovery is impossible without predictable access to medicines, consumables, fuel, and medical equipment, UNFPA emphasizes. Only 14 hospitals and 64 PHCs and medical points currently provide SRH and emergency obstetric care services, all partially. In parallel, the lack of adequate shelter, heating, and sanitation is creating severe health risks, particularly for pregnant women and newborns. UNFPA estimates that 40,000 displaced pregnant women are enduring overcrowded, unsanitary conditions that heighten their vulnerability and further restrict access to timely, life-saving care.

• UNFPA and partners are scaling up SRH services across Gaza to help meet these urgent needs. In November, eight medical points and PHCs providing SRH services reopened, with renovation work underway to re-open seven additional PHCs and the maternity department at Al Khair Hospital. To expand service delivery capacity, during November, UNFPA distributed 17 high-performance tents to health partners, equipped more than 90 midwives with midwifery kits, and provided postpartum kits to more than 4,200 new mothers. During the same period, UNFPA delivered reproductive health kits to health facilities for the treatment of sexually transmitted infections, management of postpartum haemorrhage, and emergency deliveries, among others. This has enabled 8,000 SRH services, including 500 safe deliveries, alongside the distribution of more than 450,000 units of essential maternal health medicines, consumables, and contraceptives.

Persons with Disabilities

• The number of persons with disabilities in the Gaza Strip has grown significantly due to conflict-related injuries. In 2022, prior to the escalation of hostilities, MoH registered over 55,000 persons with disabilities in the Gaza Strip. In September 2025, the World Health Organization (WHO) estimated that nearly 42,000 additional people in the Gaza Strip have sustained potentially life-changing injuries that require ongoing rehabilitation and care, or about 25 per cent of the reported injuries between October 2023 and September 2025. According to WHO, a quarter of them are children. On 3 December, MoH in Gaza reported that there are at least 6,000 amputation cases in Gaza since October 2023. According to the Protection Cluster, while persons with disabilities in Gaza already faced major barriers accessing basic services before October 2023, the destruction of the health system, the loss of health workers, and the widespread damage to infrastructure have sharply increased these barriers and reduced access to essential care.

• In a positive development, on 2 December, the Palestine Red Crescent Society (PRCS) announced the opening of its Rehabilitation Hospital in Khan Younis, with an initial capacity of 100 beds, to meet the growing need of injured persons and other patients for specialized rehabilitation services. Hamad Hospital also recently reported that it has provided more than 100 people with prosthetic limbs since March 2025. Since the ceasefire and as of 3 December, Protection and Disability partners, through the Protection Cluster and the Disability Working Group, reached 140 people with prosthetics and orthotics for disability rehabilitation, 167 people with assistive devices and physiotherapy, 500 people with adult hygiene kits, and 45 people with specialized rehabilitation referrals. At least 38,000 people, including persons with disabilities, were reached with mental health and psycho-social support services and over 6,200 additional people, including persons with disabilities, were reached with intersectoral referrals for multi-purpose cash assistance, shelter tents and blankets, winterization assistance, and food security support. The response remains far from sufficient in meeting the scale of needs, the Protection Cluster notes, amid significant gaps in rehabilitation services and the entry of prosthetics and other specialized materials.

• With most people currently living in sub-standard, overcrowded shelters, most shelters and latrines are inaccessible to persons with disabilities, according to the Protection Cluster. This severely limits access for people with mobility challenges, increasing dependence on caregivers, reducing wellbeing, and exposing them to potential risks of abuse. According to the Protection Cluster and the Disability Working Group, the situation is further compounded by extensive damage to roads and explosive hazards, which severely hinder movement and accessibility, further depriving persons with mobility impairments of adequate access to essential services.

• To effectively deliver medical, psychosocial, case management, and community-based services to persons with disabilities, the Protection Cluster underscores the criticality of embedding disability inclusion and universal (accessible) design in multisector programming efforts, including future reconstruction planning. The Cluster further highlights that the entry of appropriate materials to establish safe spaces must be fully facilitated, noting that partners have faced challenges in bringing in needed items, such as assistive devices, including materials required to repair existing devices. The lack of access to essential assistive devices significantly reduces the coping capacity of people with functional impairments, leading to heightened physical vulnerability and risks of health complications, loss of independence, psychological distress, social isolation, and diminished dignity, further marginalizing already at-risk people, the Protection Cluster warns.

Funding

• As of 4 December, Member States disbursed approximately $1.6 billion out of the $4 billion (40 per cent) requested to meet the most critical humanitarian needs of 3 million out of 3.3 million people identified as requiring assistance in Gaza and the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, under the 2025 Flash Appeal for the Occupied Palestinian Territory. Nearly 88 per cent of the requested funds is for the humanitarian response in Gaza, with just over 12 per cent for the West Bank. In November, the oPt Humanitarian Fund managed 128 ongoing projects, totalling $73.5 million, to address urgent needs in the Gaza Strip (89 per cent) and the West Bank (11 per cent). Of these projects, 61 are being implemented by international NGOs, 51 by national NGOs and 16 by UN agencies. Notably, 58 out of the 77 projects implemented by international NGOs or the UN are being implemented in collaboration with national NGOs. For more information, , please see OCHA’s Financial Tracking Service webpage and the oPt HF webpage.

2022.

4 december 2025

Gaza Humanitarian Response
Situation Report No. 37

3 December 2025
(As of 18:00 on 2 December 2025, unless otherwise noted)

HIGHLIGHTS

• During the month of November, Food Security Sector partners reached 65 per cent of Gaza’s population with monthly general food assistance.
• As part of ongoing winterization efforts, Child Protection partners distributed 6,000 child winter clothing kits on 1 December.
• Throughout November, Mine Action partners conducted 132 Explosive Hazard Assessments and reached nearly 116,000 people, almost half of them children, through Explosive Ordnance Risk Education sessions.

SITUATION OVERVIEW

On 3 December, the Israeli authorities announced that the Rafah crossing would open in the coming days “exclusively for the exit of residents” from the Gaza Strip to Egypt. The Israeli statement indicated that exit would be facilitated “through coordination with Egypt, following security approval by Israel and under the supervision of the European Union mission”, similarly to the mechanism operational in January 2025.

On the afternoon of 3 December, a casket containing the apparent remains of one of the last two deceased hostages from Israel still believed to remain in Gaza was handed over to the Israeli authorities. As of 19:00 local time, the identity of the deceased had not been ascertained yet.

Over the past 48 hours, reports of airstrikes, shelling, and gunfire continued across the Gaza Strip.  On 1 December, OCHA helped to coordinate the rescue of injured people in the At-Tuffah neighbourhood of Gaza city, following a distress call received from the area by Civil Defence teams.

UNITED NATIONS-COORDINATED AID ENTRY^*

On 2 December, at least 4,362 pallets of aid administered by the UN and its partners were offloaded at Gaza’s crossings, based on data retrieved from the UN 2720 Mechanism dashboard at 18:00 on 3 December. About 68 per cent of these pallets contained food supplies, followed by shelter (19 per cent), water, sanitation and hygiene items (11 per cent), and health supplies (3 per cent). At least 133 truckloads were offloaded at Kerem Shalom and 26 at Zikim.

On the same day, UNOPS international monitors present at Kerem Shalom between 07:30 and 14:18 verified the collection of at least 3,026 pallets of aid. These comprised inter alia 1,753 pallets of food supplies, including flour, canned corn, fresh fruit and vegetables, 507 pallets of hygiene and dignity kits, 395 pallets of tarpaulins and ropes, 62 of tents, 166 of clothes and blankets, 100 of water tanks, as well as animal fodder.

Overall, between the announcement of the ceasefire on 10 October, and 2 December, at least 132,547 pallets of humanitarian cargo were offloaded, and 117,050 pallets were collected from the different crossings. Only 2 per cent of all uplifted aid was intercepted during transit within Gaza, while over 115,000 pallets safely reached warehouses for onward distribution to people in need

All the above data excludes bilateral donations and the commercial sector. 

As of 3 December, the Kerem Shalom, Zikim and Kissufim crossings remained operational, with humanitarian cargo offloading and uplifting alternating days between Zikim and Kissufim.

HUMANITARIAN RESPONSE

Food Security

• During the month of November, partners distributed monthly food parcels to more than 273,000 families (1,365,000 people), representing 65 per cent of all 2.1 million people requiring monthly food assistance in Gaza.

Shelter

• On 1 December, Shelter partners distributed shelter items to 1,950 households across the Strip. This includes 628 bedding kits, 82 tents and 70 kitchen sets distributed to 780 families, as well as 366 tarpaulins to 122 families in Khan Younis; 168 tents, 237 winter clothing vouchers and 145 tarpaulins to 483 families in North Gaza and Gaza city; and 1,695 tarpaulins to 565 families in Rafah.

Protection

• On 1 December, in a single day, approximately 1,117 people were reached with individual psychosocial support, legal consultations, and group awareness activities: 100 received protection awareness sessions, 203 adults accessed mental health and psychosocial support services, 5 cases required adult case management, 45 people received legal aid, and over 800 people received dignity kits, clothing, blankets, and food parcels.

• Child Protection
  • On 1 December, Child Protection partners continued large-scale winterization efforts across the Strip, distributing 6,000 winter clothing kits to help children cope with the harsh weather conditions. 
  • On the same day, partners set up 30 activity tents across the Strip to ensure safe spaces where children can access psychosocial support and structured activities. 
  • As part of strengthening meaningful child engagement, partners delivered training on child participation for 40 frontline staff from child protection service providers, equipping them with the skills needed to lead child consultations on children’s vision for the future of Gaza.

• Mine Action
  • Throughout November, Mine Action partners conducted 132 Explosive Hazard Assessments (EHAs) across priority humanitarian locations, including warehouses, distribution sites, major transport corridors, and key infrastructure. Findings were categorized as low, medium, or high risk, with hazardous areas marked, mapped, and reported through the Mine Action information management system. Partners also supported 17 inter-agency missions, providing technical expertise on Explosive Ordnance (EO) threats and conducted 6,861 Explosive Ordnance Risk Education (EORE) sessions to sensitize the population on EO risks, reaching 115,917 people, nearly half of them children, across all five Gaza governorates. Additionally, a Training of Trainers session on EORE was delivered to seven humanitarian partners to enhance their capacity and strengthen community outreach efforts. Overall, during the month, five EO incidents were reported, leading to 17 causalities – 6 killed and 11 injured - in Deir al Balah and Gaza city.
  • Between 2 and 3 December, another 11 EHAs were conducted, mostly in support of rubble removal efforts, while EORE activities reached at least a further 2,326 people, nearly 30 percent of whom were children, in Deir al Balah, Khan Younis and Gaza city.

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2020.

3 december 2025

We did it!!

More than 700 other people gave in the last 48 hours, and as of this writing, we’ve raised $39,278 to fund our organizing for a free Palestine and a just future for us all.

That’s well above our original $20,000 goal, and means we were able to secure the maximum amount of Giving Tuesday matching funds to fuel our work in 2026.

If you haven’t had the chance to give yet, it’s not too late. Your donation will still be doubled by our matching funders through December 31, 2025.

This money will help us expand our divestment and cultural boycott campaigns to transform public opinion into political power, provide more political education connecting Palestine to other critical justice struggles, and bring more leaders together to coordinate strategy across movements as we fight fascism in the U.S. and genocide in Palestine side by side.

AJP supporters like you are making all of this work stronger.

From the bottom of my heart—thank you for being in this fight with us.

In solidarity,

sophie lipman
Development Director
Adalah Justice Project

2019.

3 december 2025

Record-breaking crowds gather for Palestine in Chicago

On Saturday, November 29th, we wrapped up our most energetic and inspiring convention yet with a record-breaking 5,000+ people in attendance at the Tinley Park Convention Center near Chicago, IL!

With more than 60 speakers, 40 sessions, a buzzing bazaar, and multiple tracks, this year's convention has been hailed by attendees as one of the best they've ever experienced.

This year's theme revolved around the genocide in Gaza. Our approach to addressing the catastrophe that has unfolded over the last two years was to develop a framework to move beyond survival. Historically, when empires and world powers counted the Palestinians out, the Palestinian people found a way to maintain continuity and ensure their growth as a nation and people, beyond survival.

On Thursday, the convention was inaugurated by groundbreaking sessions on political prisoners, lessons learned from the Gaza genocide, and a screening of Watermelon Pictures’ The Encampments, which shed light on the incredible student movement that swept US college campuses in the spring of 2024.

On Friday, important discussions on the Israel lobby and the 2026 election featuring former congressmen Dr. Jamaal Bowman and Cori Bush electrified the crowd, and inspiring talks from Dr. Hatem Bazian, Dr. Osama Abu Irshaid, and Dr. Manal Fakhoury grounded us in what matters most: a deep commitment to the just and noble cause of Palestine. Sessions also included panels on divesting from Israeli bonds and the role of social media during genocide. We capped the night with a panel on Gaza and with the captivatingly heartbreaking film The Voice of Hind Rajab, which portrayed the last moments of the life of the little girl in Gaza whose murder by Israeli soldiers shocked the conscience of the world.

On Saturday, the “Gaza is The World” session featuring Dr. Norman Finkelstein and the following panels was the capstone of our discussions on Gaza and its future, which emphasized the communal and global commitment to Gaza and its people. The grand finale at the convention was the Night of Sumud, headlined by Palestinian artist Maher Alatilli.

From our campus activism track to our youth program, the youth and students were front and center throughout the entire convention. Children as young as 1 to students finishing their final year in college were the largest contingent of attendees at our convention this year, marking a turning point in our work for Palestine in America.

The AMP Annual Convention, with all its different facets and programs, has become a flagship event for AMP, making it our largest national educational event, bringing together thousands of people from all over the world.

We look forward to seeing you next November at the 19th Palestine Convention! As a matter of fact, we have a special early bird registration offer just for you: a $25 flat rate for all ticket levels, valid until December 7th. Click here to claim your special offer.

In solidarity,

American Muslims For Palestine (AMP)
18th Palestine Convention Team

2018.

3 december 2025

In our latest episode, Lana discloses how she confronts both the violence of occupation and the added threat of gender-based violence rooted in patriarchy. This week we invite you to listen to Lana’s testimony, share her story with a friend, and continue speaking out for the freedom of all prisoners.

With gratitude,
Sarah

2017.

3 december 2025

Gaza Humanitarian Response
Situation Report No. 36

2 December 2025
(As of 18:00 on 1 December 2025, unless otherwise noted)

HIGHLIGHTS

• As of 29 November, Food Security Sector partners supported more than 264,000 families (1,320,000 people) with general food parcel distributions as part of the November monthly assistance cycle, representing 63 per cent of their monthly target.
• On 30 November, Education Cluster partners installed six high-performance tents of 72 square metres each at two learning spaces in Gaza city to expand access to in-person learning.
• On 1 December, 18 patients were medically evacuated from the Gaza Strip to Jordan and Türkiye, bringing the total number of patients evacuated abroad to 10,620 since October 2023 and to 235 since the ongoing ceasefire.

SITUATION OVERVIEW

Between 28 and 29 November, a Site Management partner conducted a comprehensive winter risk assessment across all 86 Designated Emergency Shelters (DESs) in the Gaza Strip to identify urgent needs ahead of the cold and rainy season. The analysis revealed a critical shortage of tarpaulins to be used as sealing-off kits, with most DESs lacking window and door shutters, many spaces remaining open, and Temporary Learning Spaces (TLSs) experiencing leaks during rainfall. To ensure adequate protection against rain and cold, an estimated 15,663 tarpaulins are required, covering all rooms, TLSs, and family tents within the DESs. This allocation is based on three tarpaulins per room, two per family tent, and three per TLS, aiming to safeguard displaced families and students from harsh weather conditions.

UNITED NATIONS-COORDINATED AID ENTRY^*

On 1 December, at least 3,662 pallets of aid administered by the UN and its partners were offloaded at Gaza’s crossings, based on data retrieved from the UN 2720 Mechanism dashboardat 17:00 on 2 December. About 41 per cent of these pallets contained food supplies, followed by water, sanitation and hygiene items (32 per cent), shelter (22 per cent) and nutrition supplies (5 per cent). At least 130 truckloads were offloaded at Kerem Shalom and 6 at Kissufim crossing.

On 1 December, United Nations Office for Project Services (UNOPS) international monitors deployed at Gaza’s crossings verified the collection of at least 4,610 pallets of aid – 3,518 from Kerem Shalom between 10:27 and 14:59 and 1,092 from Zikim between 08:08 and 12:15. These comprised 3,031 pallets of food supplies, including flour, canned food, lentils, beans, and fortified biscuits, 665 pallets of tarpaulins, 105 pallets of tents, 276 pallets of blankets, 111 pallets of winter clothes, 407 pallets of hygiene kits, and 15 pallets of stretchers.

Overall, between 10 October, when the ceasefire was announced, and 1 December, at least 127,697 pallets of humanitarian cargo were offloaded, and 110,792 pallets were collected from the different crossings. Of the collected cargo, 1,951 pallets (2 per cent) were intercepted during transit within Gaza.

All the above data excludes bilateral donations and the commercial sector.

As of 2 December, the Kerem Shalom, Zikim and Kissufim crossings remained operational, with humanitarian cargo offloading and uplifting alternating days between Zikim and Kissufim.

Between 25 and 30 November, UNOPS collected 19 trucks with 834,490 litres of diesel, and distributed 850,135 litres of diesel to partners - 610,199 litres in the south and 239,936 litres in the north - to support critical WASH, health, food, logistics, rubble removal, education, nutrition, site management, and protection operations.

HUMANITARIAN RESPONSE

Health

• On 1 December, 18 patients were medically evacuated from the Gaza Strip to Jordan and Türkiye, accompanied by 54 companions. This brings the total number of patients evacuated abroad to 10,620, including 5,608 children, since October 2023, while more than 16,000 patients in critical need of treatment unavailable in Gaza remain blocked in the Strip. Meanwhile, a planned field assessment for establishing a primary health care facility at Kamal Adwan Hospital, in northern Gaza, was denied on the same day.

Food Security

• Between 1 and 29 November, partners distributed monthly food parcels to more than 264,000 families (1,320,000 people) through 59 distribution points across the Strip, including two in northern Gaza and 19 in Gaza city. This represents 63 per cent of all 2.1 million people requiring monthly food assistance in Gaza. Transportation and road conditions have been noted as one of the main challenges for communities and partners in northern Gaza.
• Cooked meal distribution continues to expand. As of 29 November, 1,582,000 meals were being delivered daily by 28 partners through 213 kitchens: 342,000 in northern Gaza and 1,240,000 in the south.

Water, Sanitations and Hygiene

• On 30 November, 309 family latrines were installed in eight camps across the Strip, reaching approximately 20,000 people.
• Sewage network maintenance projects are ongoing in three areas of Deir al Balah and in Gaza city, while rehabilitation of the Southern Well in Khan Younis and of the Al Zarka Water Well in Jabalya, North Gaza, are underway.

Protection

• Mine Action
  • On 1 December, three Explosive Hazard Assessments (EHAs) were completed in Deir al Balah and Gaza city, in support of rubble removal activities. Mine Action partners, however, continue to face restrictions in conducting the full spectrum of Explosive Ordnance (EOD) activities.
  • Explosive Ordnance Risk Education (EORE) activities continue through five partners in Deir al Balah, Khan Younis and Gaza city.

Education

• On 30 November, Education Cluster partners installed six high-performance tents of 72 square metres each at Dar Al-Arqam and Al-Kamaleya TLSs in Gaza city to expand access to in-person learning. This intervention aims to create safe and functional spaces for students and support the continuation of education in northern Gaza amid severe shortages of learning facilities. Additional alternative learning spaces remain urgently needed, particularly given the ongoing restrictions on the large-scale entry of tents.

Shelter

• Between 29 and 30 November, shelter partners distributed 186 tents and 265 clothing vouchers to 551 families in the North Gaza and Gaza city governorates; 975 tarpaulins, 5 tents, 556 blankets, 983 clothes kits and 196 kitchen sets to families in need in Deir al Balah and Khan Younis, as well as more than 2,200 tarpaulins to 737 families in the Mawasi area of Rafah. During the same period, Cluster partners received 1,941 tarpaulin sheets into Gaza.

Emergency-Telecommunications Cluster

• The Emergency Telecommunications Cluster has been conducting telecommunications assessments in Gaza city and North Gaza governorate, focusing on very high frequency coverage using both portable and mobile radios, while also evaluating eSIM roaming data services and analyzing the cost and quality of Wi-Fi internet reseller services.

2016.

2 december 2025

There is nothing more urgent than imposing a full military embargo on Israel to stop its genocide and apartheid against the Palestinian people. And it’s getting real.

Over the last year, people power has made it increasingly difficult for Israel to secure its military supplies. Across the Mediterranean, inspiringly determined dock workers and unions have refused to handle complicit vessels, rendering entire ports off limits for the criminal cargo. We have pushed some states to ban vessels from docking at their harbours. Two steel shipments have been stopped from reaching Israel’s military companies.

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Help us cut off the military supply chain for genocide and apartheid.

Every week we learn of more vessels carrying tonnes of military materiel to Israel. Our response: a coordinated network of activists, trade unions, and movement lawyers that can immediately launch #BlocktheBoat actions, simultaneously targeting flag states, shipping companies, insurance companies, ports and governments.

The following victories cut shipping companies’ profits and build momentum, sustaining hope in our joint struggle:

You can support us to prevail against genocidal Israel and its partners in crime. Organize. Show meaningful solidarity.

It is the determination of people like you that sustains our struggle and builds power to bring us ever closer to a comprehensive military embargo on apartheid Israel, similar to that imposed on apartheid South Africa.

We need your sustained support to help take the BDS movement to the next level at this critical moment. Together, until freedom, justice and equality.

2015.

1 december 2025

In recent weeks, Israeli officials have begun sketching plans for a long-term reoccupation of Gaza. New military zones have been mapped across the Strip, separating the west from the east. Armed checkpoints and “buffer areas” are expanding even though they are supposed to be temporary, effectively carving Gaza into controlled enclaves. Displaced Palestinians remain barred from returning home. The Israeli government doesn’t even pretend this is temporary while it entrenches itself in the Gaza Strip. This is a new phase of domination that is poised to expand. We need a strong resistance movement to stop it.

At RSN, we know refusal works. It worked during the Intifada, it worked during this war, and it will work now. Our mission is to make refusal widespread, organized, and impossible to ignore. We support the networks that make it happen: from reservist groups to grassroots activists. Together, we are building the most powerful resistance Israel has ever known, a movement that grows stronger each time someone says enough. But refusal demands resources. It needs us. Because the truth is, the ceasefire is fragile, the fire has not ceased, and the occupation is not over. Yet we have an opportunity to end the Israeli occupation, but it can happen only with real resistance.

But resistance will continue to grow, despite the ceasefire, and in spite of Israel’s plans. 

In solidarity,

Didi Remez
Executive Director
Refuser Solidarity Network

2014.