With rising temperatures, residents of displacement camps in the Gaza Strip are living in dire conditions due to water shortages, lack of ventilation and cooling, and severe overcrowding in tents.
One Gazan described to Al Jazeera Mubasher the daily suffering...
The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) reported that airstrikes, shelling, and gunfire continued across the Gaza Strip over the past two days, killing dozens, including children and other civilians, according to reports.
The area surrounding Al-Aqsa...
“I’m sitting here, spending my days alone without any care after my sons were killed and one of them lost a leg. My daughters are with their husbands; I have no one left except for one son living abroad,”...
Despite the ceasefire declared in the Gaza Strip in October 2015, Israel established what is known as the "Yellow Line," an invisible border that effectively divided Gaza in two. In subsequent months, the Israeli army expanded the Yellow Line...
The accumulation of medical waste in the Gaza Strip poses a growing health and environmental threat. Contaminated syringes, catheters, and bandages are scattered among tents and areas where displaced people are gathered, exposing children and families to serious infectious...
We were displaced from place to place, and now we have nowhere left to go,” says Umm Muhammad al-Shawish.
Umm Muhammad is desperately searching for a place to stay after Israel moved yellow concrete blocks to demarcate its areas of...
In a further illustration of the scale of the humanitarian catastrophe caused by the Israeli offensive on Gaza, the United Nations revealed a widespread outbreak of environmental diseases in areas where Palestinians are displaced.
Grave Health Risks
The UN Office for...
Israeli occupation authorities have issued military orders to seize nearly 200 dunams of land in Jenin Governorate, targeting areas in Arraba, Al-Yamoun, Qabatiya, Misilya, Marka, and Jaba.
The Wall and Settlement Resistance Commission said 14 orders were issued to establish...
Satellite images and eyewitness accounts from the Gaza Strip have revealed a new facet of the humanitarian tragedy Palestinians are experiencing following the ceasefire. While the images document the close proximity of tents and overcrowding in displacement camps, the...
Displacement centers in Beirut are facing a severe overcrowding crisis and a critical shortage of capacity. Hundreds of schools and government buildings have been converted into emergency shelters amidst a severe lack of basic services and humanitarian aid.
Displaced people...
