The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said that people across Gaza are struggling to meet their basic needs as restrictions on expanding humanitarian aid continue.
The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) reported an increased risk of gender-based violence, child marriage, and the exploitation of women and girls.
UNFPA noted that damage to health facilities, safe spaces, and clinics, along with displacement, movement restrictions, and flooding, have severely limited access to psychosocial support and medical care.
OCHA reported that UN partners providing emergency shelter assistance reached more than 13,000 families between last Sunday and Wednesday, distributing hundreds of tents and plastic sheeting.
It added that partners are also continuing to distribute mattresses, sleeping bags, blankets, warm clothing, cooking utensils, and solar lamps.
The office quoted partners responsible for managing the sites as saying that, due to capacity and funding constraints, they are currently only able to provide support to about 40% of the 970 displacement sites across Gaza.
Regarding the situation in the West Bank, the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) reported that more than 100 Palestinian Bedouin and herding families from five communities in the central West Bank were displaced in just two weeks, between January 6 and 19.
OCHA added that this displacement was due to ongoing settler attacks, threats, and intimidation, explaining that these attacks prevented residents from accessing their homes, grazing lands, and water sources.
The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) reported on Wednesday that ongoing Israeli military operations, along with settler violence and movement restrictions, continue to impede access to schools, workplaces, markets, and healthcare.
