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5 December 2025<\/p>\n
OCHA warns that insecurity continues to undermine aid operations and endanger civilian lives in the Gaza Strip. OCHA reiterates that under international humanitarian law, civilians and civilian infrastructure must always be protected and should never be a target.<\/p>\n
Between 26 November and Tuesday, partners monitoring population flows in Gaza recorded more than 20,500 movements, compared with over 17,000 the preceding week.<\/p>\n
Over the past month, displacement has been driven mainly by heavy rainfall and flooding. Partners helping manage displacement sites say that they are able to oversee less than a third of the known locations where displaced people are sheltering due to access constraints, security, and lack of supplies. As a result, more than a million people at these sites are going without key support \u2013 including drainage of wastewater, as well as the construction and repair of community structures.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, new waves of displacement were reported over the past week due to shifts in the yellow cement blocks marking the so-called \u201cYellow Line.\u201d<\/p>\n
The UN also continues to coordinate humanitarian missions within Gaza. OCHA reports that on Wednesday, six out of seven such attempts were facilitated by Israeli authorities. Through these missions, humanitarian teams collected fuel, medical supplies, diapers, dignity and hygiene kits, soap, winter clothing, and other essential items from the Kerem Shalom and Zikim crossings.<\/p>\n
Overall, between 26 November and Tuesday, humanitarian organizations coordinated 54 missions with the Israeli authorities \u2013 of which 38 were facilitated, seven were cancelled, five were impeded, and four were denied.<\/p>\n
West Bank: operations by Israeli forces affect tens of thousands of Palestinians<\/strong><\/p>\n OCHA warns that Israeli forces\u2019 operations in northern areas of the West Bank are intensifying and triggering new displacement, movement restrictions, school closures, and service disruptions in communities already affected by recurrent operations since early 2025.<\/p>\n Over 95,000 Palestinians were affected by expanded operations by Israeli forces in the northern areas between 25 November and Monday \u2013 particularly in Jenin and Tubas governorates \u2013 including due to curfew and other movement restrictions, displacement, damage or destruction of private property and public infrastructure, as well as school closures \u2013 with access to basic services disrupted.<\/p>\n Settler attacks also continue unabated. So far this year, OCHA has documented 1,680 attacks by Israeli settlers that caused casualties or property damage in more than 270 communities across the West Bank \u2013 an average of five incidents per day.<\/p>\n Israel as the occupying power has a legal obligation to protect Palestinians and maintain public order and safety in the West Bank in accordance with international humanitarian and human rights law. Any use of force by Israeli forces must follow internationally recognized law enforcement standards.<\/p>\n OCHA also reiterates the urgent need for concrete action by the international community, particularly by those with influence, to address settler violence and the rapid expansion of settlements and outposts, which continue to imperil Palestinians and increase humanitarian needs across the West Bank.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" 5 December 2025 OCHA warns that insecurity continues to undermine aid operations and endanger civilian lives in the Gaza Strip. OCHA reiterates that under international humanitarian law, civilians and civilian infrastructure must always be protected and should never be a target. Between 26 November and Tuesday, partners monitoring population flows in Gaza recorded more […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":299,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"country":[],"document-category":[1329],"document-source":[2169],"committee-meeting":[],"document-subject":[1945,2005,6251],"entity":[1729],"document-language":[6542],"class_list":["post-314286","document","type-document","status-publish","hentry","document-category-press-release","document-source-office-for-the-coordination-of-humanitarian-affairs-ocha","document-subject-assistance","document-subject-gaza-strip","document-subject-west-bank","entity-united-nations-system","document-language-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document\/314286","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/document"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/299"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document\/314286\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":314358,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document\/314286\/revisions\/314358"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=314286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"country","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/country?post=314286"},{"taxonomy":"document-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-category?post=314286"},{"taxonomy":"document-source","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-source?post=314286"},{"taxonomy":"committee-meeting","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/committee-meeting?post=314286"},{"taxonomy":"document-subject","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-subject?post=314286"},{"taxonomy":"entity","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/entity?post=314286"},{"taxonomy":"document-language","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-language?post=314286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}