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20 April 2026<\/p>\n
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I. Situation Overview:<\/strong><\/p>\n Affected Population:<\/strong><\/p>\n In Gaza, the two-year conflict has taken a staggering toll on women and girls. Since October 2023, more than 38,000 women and girls have been killed, and 172,202 have been injured. Most women and girls have been displaced at least four times.According to UN Women\u2019s estimate based on the latest Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) data, issued in December 2025, nearly 790,000 women and girls in Gaza experience crisis-level food insecurity or worse (IPC Phase 3 or higher). Over 16,000 women have lost their husbands, with women now heading one in seven households. Pregnant women are three times more at risk than a year ago. Around 540,000 women lack access to reproductive health care, and 700,000 struggle to manage menstruation. Thousands of adolescent girls are reaching puberty without safety, privacy, or sanitary supplies. Meanwhile, over 328,000 girls have lost two school years, and all school-age children remain deprived of education \u2013 threatening an entire generation\u2019s future. In the West Bank, UN Women Palestine Humanitarian Update Reporting Period: 1 January \u2013 31 December 2025 the humanitarian situation is rapidly deteriorating amid intensified military operations, settler-related violence, and movement restrictions.<\/p>\n Key Developments<\/strong><\/p>\n During Reporting Period From January to December 2025, the humanitarian situation in Gaza remained catastrophic despite two ceasefires. The early-year ceasefire briefly increased aid access, enabling some displaced families to return to their community of origin and allowing limited food, health, and protection services to resume. However, by March 2025, a renewed blockade and resuming military operations caused the collapse of aid delivery, triggering severe hunger, widespread malnutrition, and near-famine conditions, particularly among children and pregnant women. Infrastructure including homes, hospitals, WASH systems and farmland remained largely destroyed, and over 1.9 million people stayed displaced, many in overcrowded tents or makeshift shelters. Reports from UN Agencies, international organizations and humanitarian actors indicated extreme protection risks, including GBV, disease outbreaks, and civilian casualties near aid sites.<\/p>\n After the second ceasefire in October 2025, aid flows increased again, with community kitchens and bakeries resuming partial operations, but assistance remained far below needs. By November, winter rains flooded shelters, worsening already dire living conditions, while food insecurity, health system collapse, and inadequate WASH services continued to leave the majority of Gaza\u2019s population in acute humanitarian distress. In the West Bank, throughout January 2025, Israeli forces carried out a large-scale military operation in the north of the West Bank, forcibly displacing more than 42,000 people from Jenin Camp, Nur Shams Camp and Tulkarm Camp.<\/p>\n II. Humanitarian Needs and Priorities of Women and Girls<\/strong><\/p>\n Across Gaza and the West Bank, women and girls remained in urgent need of lifesaving humanitarian protection and assistance, including access to food, clean water, shelter, healthcare, and education. Women and girls, particularly older women, those with disabilities and caring for family members with disabilities, and those living in collective shelters continue to face heightened risks of genderbased violence (GBV) because of repeated displacement, overcrowded and unsafe living conditions, resource scarcity, and the collapse of family and community protective networks. Access to GBV prevention and response services remained critically limited. Economic insecurity continued to deepen, with around 75 per cent of households in Gaza and nearly 50 per cent in the West Bank reporting no source of income, leading to widespread reliance on loans and increased debt. In this context, women and girls were forced to make impossible choices every day, taking significant personal risks to secure food and water. Many are facing challenges and exposed to risks due to the deployment of negative coping mechanisms, including accumulating debt.<\/p>\n III. UN Women\u2019s Response<\/strong><\/p>\n Between 1 January \u2013 31 December 2025, UN Women and partners reached 900,000 crisis-affected people with lifesaving humanitarian assistance and information in Gaza and the West Bank, including over 323,469 individuals directly with multi-sectoral protection information and services, emergency cash and livelihoods, and essential non-food items. This includes over 252,290 (78%) women and girls, including 11,829 (4%) women with disabilities. Of those reached directly, 39% are in Gaza and 61% in the West Bank.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" 20 April 2026 I. Situation Overview: Affected Population: In Gaza, the two-year conflict has taken a staggering toll on women and girls. Since October 2023, more than 38,000 women and girls have been killed, and 172,202 have been injured. 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