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03 July 2025<\/p>\n
OCHA warns that as bombing and other deadly attacks continue in the Gaza Strip, the space left for civilians to stay in is shrinking by the day.<\/p>\n
Just yesterday, the Israeli authorities issued yet another displacement order \u2013 this time for parts of Gaza city \u2013 citing Palestinian rocket fire. Partners estimate that about 40,000 people were in these areas, which included one displacement site, one medical point, and a neighbourhood that had been spared from any displacement orders since before the ceasefire. As of earlier today, about 900 families are estimated to have fled.<\/p>\n
OCHA notes that since mid-March, when the ceasefire ended, more than 50 such orders have been issued. Together, they now cover about 78 per cent of Gaza. Add the Israeli-militarized zones and that percentage jumps to 85 \u2013 leaving just 15 per cent where civilians can actually stay.<\/p>\n
Those areas are overcrowded and severely lacking in services or proper infrastructure. They are also fragmented and unsafe.<\/p>\n
Yesterday, the UN Population Fund (UNFPA) said in a\u00a0social media post<\/a><\/em>\u00a0that menstruation has become a nightmare for an estimated 700,000 women and girls in Gaza. The agency stressed that, alongside food, people need water, soap, menstrual pads and privacy. UNFPA noted that it has supplies ready \u2013 almost 170 truckloads\u2019 worth \u2013 but they are not being let into the Strip.<\/p>\n In a\u00a0report<\/a><\/em>\u00a0issued yesterday, OCHA notes that since last Thursday, nine more aid workers have been killed \u2013 from five different organizations. That brings the total number of aid workers killed to 107 so far this year, and 479 since October 2023. Among them are 326 UN staff.<\/p>\n Inside Gaza, humanitarian teams are required to coordinate their movements with the Israeli authorities. During the month of June, out of nearly 400 such coordination attempts, 44 per cent were outright denied by Israeli authorities. Another 10 per cent were initially accepted but faced impediments. Only a third were fully facilitated. The rest \u2013 about 12 per cent \u2013 had to be cancelled by the organizers for logistical, operational or security reasons.<\/p>\n Today, four out of 16 coordination attempts were denied, hindering humanitarian teams\u2019 efforts to relocate medical supplies or remove debris, among other critical operations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" 03 July 2025 OCHA warns that as bombing and other deadly attacks continue in the Gaza Strip, the space left for civilians to stay in is shrinking by the day. Just yesterday, the Israeli authorities issued yet another displacement order \u2013 this time for parts of Gaza city \u2013 citing Palestinian rocket fire. Partners […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":299,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"country":[],"document-category":[1338],"document-source":[2169],"committee-meeting":[],"document-subject":[1769,1829,2005,1741,1745],"entity":[1729],"document-language":[6542],"class_list":["post-308799","document","type-document","status-publish","hentry","document-category-statement","document-source-office-for-the-coordination-of-humanitarian-affairs-ocha","document-subject-armed-conflict","document-subject-casualties","document-subject-gaza-strip","document-subject-human-rights-and-international-humanitarian-law","document-subject-refugees-and-displaced-persons","entity-united-nations-system","document-language-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document\/308799","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/document"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/299"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document\/308799\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":308800,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document\/308799\/revisions\/308800"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=308799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"country","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/country?post=308799"},{"taxonomy":"document-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-category?post=308799"},{"taxonomy":"document-source","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-source?post=308799"},{"taxonomy":"committee-meeting","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/committee-meeting?post=308799"},{"taxonomy":"document-subject","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-subject?post=308799"},{"taxonomy":"entity","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/entity?post=308799"},{"taxonomy":"document-language","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-language?post=308799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}