Humanitarian Situation Update #177 Gaza Strip. June 10

Key Highlights

  • An Israeli military operation in An Nuseirat Refugee Camp rescues four Israeli hostages and results in nearly 1,000 Palestinian casualties.  

  • Al Aqsa Hospital in Deir al Balah is operating at nearly five-fold its capacity while surviving on only one electricity generator. 

  • Over 330,000 tons of solid waste have accumulated in or near populated areas in the Gaza Strip, warns the Water, Sanitation and Hygiene Cluster. 

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Makeshift tents of internally displaced people in Al Mawasi, Khan Younis. Photo by OCHA

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Humanitarian Situation Update #176 | Gaza Strip

Key Highlights

  • The UN Human Rights Office reports that the airstrike on a UN school in An Nuseirat Refugee Camp suggests a failure of the Israeli military to ensure strict compliance with International Humanitarian Law.   

  • Al Aqsa Hospital in Deir al Balah is overwhelmed with patients and one of its two generators went out of service.  

  • All medical evacuations outside of Gaza continue to be suspended since 7 May.  

  • Nine out of 10 children in Gaza are experiencing severe food poverty, UNICEF reports.

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A Palestinian displaced woman in a refugee camp in Rafah city. Photo by WHO

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Israel reduces water supply to Bethlehem, Hebron 7 Comments

Rights groups have long accused Israel of imposing “water apartheid” upon Palestinians living in the occupied Palestinian Territories (OPT). This “constitutes a systematic attack on the Palestinian people’s right to water and sanitation, that actively endangers the health of Palestinians and holds the Palestinian economy captive to corporations who exploit this market for commercial profit,” Al-Haq said in a 2022 report.

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