{"id":244812,"date":"2021-01-13T15:51:21","date_gmt":"2021-01-13T20:51:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/?post_type=document&p=244812"},"modified":"2021-01-22T15:52:29","modified_gmt":"2021-01-22T20:52:29","slug":"ocha-humanitarian-bulletin-for-occupied-palestinian-territory-oct-dec-2020","status":"publish","type":"document","link":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/document\/ocha-humanitarian-bulletin-for-occupied-palestinian-territory-oct-dec-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"OCHA Humanitarian Bulletin for Occupied Palestinian Territory: Oct.-Dec. 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Kafaiah’s toes are amputated and she needs walking support, while her husband is paralyzed. 3 December, 2020, Gaza City. Photo by GPC<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Overview | October – December 2020<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n
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Despite the heightened hardship and uncertainty that characterized 2020, the year ended with cautious optimism, following the worldwide launch of a COVID-19 vaccination campaign. In the occupied Palestinian territory (oPt), this campaign is yet to start; however, the Palestinian Authority (PA) has applied for financial support and has developed a national plan aimed at mass vaccination in the near future. Israel began vaccination in mid-December, and currently ranks first globally in per capita coverage. The Israeli authorities have expressed their readiness to support vaccinations both in the West Bank and in Gaza, however practical arrangements are yet to come to fruition. Health and human rights organizations have called on the Israeli authorities to \u201clive up to their legal obligations and ensure that quality vaccines\u201d are also provided to Palestinians.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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2020 olive harvest season: low yield amidst access restrictions and settler violence<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n
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The 2020 olive harvest season, which took place in October and November, was an exceptionally poor one in terms of oil yield. The Palestinian Ministry of Agriculture expects a total of 13,000 tons of olive oil (including some 1,500 tons in the Gaza Strip), which represents a more than 55 per cent decrease compared with 2019. This has been attributed to the alternate fruit-bearing \u201con and off seasons\u201d, coupled with poor rainfall distribution and temperature extremes during the growing cycle.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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In the Gaza Strip, owing money is part of day-to-day life<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n
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\u201cI have lived in rented accommodation for the past 25 years,\u201d said Sabreen, aged 40, who lives in Beach Camp, near Gaza City, along with her husband and six children. \u201cDuring these years, I was evicted 15 times for not paying rent. My husband was a fisherman, but he has been ill for the last six years and can\u2019t work.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Home quarantine compounds the hardship of thousands of families in Gaza<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n
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Rana, a 14 -year-old girl from Khan Younis, had to spend three weeks in quarantine at home, after being in contact with a relative who tested positive for COVID-19. She spent this period with her father and siblings, while her mother was outside the country. “I was very afraid of what might happen to us and wasn\u2019t able to do my homework or anything else,\u201d said Rana.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Palestinian family evicted from its home in East Jerusalem<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n
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In a number of separate rulings issued in recent months, Israeli courts ordered the eviction of a large number of Palestinian families from their homes in the Sheikh Jarrah and Silwan neighbourhoods of East Jerusalem, and the handover of the properties to Israeli settler organizations. (See Recent eviction rulings in East Jerusalem, below).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cOn 17 November, I was driving to pick up my sister when I saw a big bulldozer, and I thought to myself that a demolition will probably take place in one of our neighboring communities\u201d, recalled Radad Dagharme, from Al Farisyia herding community, in the nort<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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