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31 December 2025<\/p>\n
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Gaza Strip<\/strong><\/p>\n Following the ceasefire on 10 October 2025, humanitarian access to the Gaza Strip improved, yet critical constraints continued to severely hamper the provision of essential services to children. Children in the Gaza Strip continue to face extreme protection risks including grave violations after two years of war, and 1.1 million children are in need of child protection services, mental health and psychosocial support. More than 58,000 children have lost one or both parents.Economic hardship has forced one in four families to send children into hazardous or exploitative work, with children as young as six engaged in dangerous labour. The risks are even greater for children with disabilities, adolescent boys, and girls, as the destruction of services, shelters, and safe spaces has left children dangerously unprotected.<\/p>\n Since 7 October 2023, over 70,112 Palestinians have been reported killed, including at least 20,632 children. Additionally, more than 170,986 Palestinians were reported injured, including at least 44,486 children. Humanitarian workers also continue to face deadly risks, with 578 reported fatalities, including 387 UN staff. Since the current ceasefire on 10 October 2025, more than 356 Palestinians have been reported killed, including more than 80 children, and more than 900 Palestinians were reported injured. Deadliest incidents in November occurred on 20-22 November when airstrikes reportedly killed over 50 Palestinians including at least 16 children.<\/p>\n As of 1 October 2025, at least 825 attacks on healthcare have been recorded by WHO since October 2023 (of which 168 in 2025). Ongoing attacks and resource shortages have severely weakened the health system, damaging or destroying 94 per cent of hospitals. Health systems remain severely weakened despite some health centres now reopening. More than 16,500 patients, including 4,000 children in Gaza, require medical evacuation for advanced care unavailable within the Strip, highlighting the catastrophic collapse of the health system.<\/p>\n In November 2025, market conditions in Gaza improved significantly, with prices stabilizing and animal products consistently available for the first time in months, though most people still cannot access these goods due to high prices and income-generating opportunities remain scarce. Vulnerable families still face poor dietary diversity, while cash assistance recipients show a strong preference for digital e-wallet transactions over cash withdrawals.<\/p>\n West Bank, including East Jerusalem<\/strong><\/p>\n November 2025 witnessed intensified militarized law enforcement operations and high levels of settler violence, including a large-scale operation launched in late November in Tubas and Jenin governorates. The operation involved military closures and curfews severely restricting movement and access to essential services, resulting in children missing school and facing elevated risks of grave violations and detention. In November alone, OCHA reported some 130 attacks by Israeli settlers resulting in more than 90 injuries and several settlement outposts were established in November, increasing risks of conflict-related violence and displacement for children in nearby Palestinian communities.<\/p>\n Between 7 October 2023 and 30 November 2025, more than a thousand Palestinians were killed in the West Bank including East Jerusalem. During the same period, 235 Palestinian children and four Israeli children (including one in Israel) were killed in conflictrelated violence, and more than 1,880 Palestinian children were injured (43 per cent by live ammunition). In November 2025, nine Palestinian boys were killed in incidents across five governorates, including one child who died from a severe tear gas inhalation injury sustained in October, and at least 22 Palestinian children were injured, which raised the number of children killed in 2025 to 53 and injured to 651. Half of all conflict-related child fatalities in 2025 were in Jenin (33 per cent) and Nablus (17 per cent) governorates, and more than half of all live ammunition injuries to children were in Nablus (32 per cent) and Hebron (22 per cent) governorates. As of 24 September 2025, 909 attacks on health care were reported in the West Bank including East Jerusalem since 7 October 2023, including 214 attacks in 2025.<\/p>\n In the northern West Bank, some 32,000 Palestinians including 12,000 children remain displaced from their homes in Jenin, Tulkarem and Nur Shams refugee camps, with no immediate prospect of return. Hundreds of buildings in the three camps have been demolished since the beginning of the year and the three camps remain under military closure. In addition, since 7 October 2023, more than 7,300 Palestinians have been displaced mainly in East Jerusalem and Area C in the West Bank due to home demolitions, including 3,134 children.<\/p>\n Reported Casualties and Abductions in Israel<\/strong><\/p>\n Israeli authorities report that some 1,200 Israelis and foreign nationals were killed in the attacks of 7 October 2023, including 37 children and more than 7,500 people were reported injured. Out of 251 people taken hostage, including 36 children, 250 were released or returned. Of the 36 children, 34 were released alive in November 2023 and the remains of two were returned in February 2025.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" 31 December 2025 Highlights Despite reduced hostilities in the Gaza Strip, children continue to face extreme protection risks after two years of war. An estimated 1.1 million children remain in need of child protection services and mental health and psychosocial support. More than 58,000 children have lost one or both parents. 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