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4 May 2026<\/p>\n
In a social media post over the weekend, the Emergency Relief Coordinator Tom Fletcher\u00a0said<\/a>\u00a0that more than 6 months since the ceasefire agreement, the humanitarian community continue to work strenuously to help Palestinians in Gaza. Fletcher said the work has saved lives, averted famine, and restored essential services, stressing there was much more to do, \u201cwe need sustained access, protection of civilians, neutrality and partnership.\u201d<\/p>\n Partners leading emergency shelter assistance delivered tents, sealing-off materials, bedding, and other supplies to nearly 4,500 households.<\/p>\n They installed 150 improved emergency shelters in Khan Younis; these shelters are made from available materials such as plastic sheets and are designed to provide displaced families with immediate solutions that can be upgraded into transitional shelters as soon as restricted materials are allowed entry.<\/p>\n Health partners report concerns about skin diseases and other medical issues linked to the presence of pests and rodents.<\/p>\n In addition, partners report that over 6,600 people need prosthetic and rehabilitation care, including thousands newly amputated since October 2023, yet only eight prosthetic technicians are available to respond.<\/p>\n Partners say that one in five amputees is a child, but with severe shortages of specialists and restricted entry of prosthetic materials, it could take five years or more to meet today\u2019s needs, assuming no further amputations occur.<\/p>\n International prosthetic technicians are urgently needed, as is the expansion of workshop capacity and the unimpeded entry of prosthetic materials, which remain restricted by the Israeli authorities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" 4 May 2026 In a social media post over the weekend, the Emergency Relief Coordinator Tom Fletcher\u00a0said\u00a0that more than 6 months since the ceasefire agreement, the humanitarian community continue to work strenuously to help Palestinians in Gaza. Fletcher said the work has saved lives, averted famine, and restored essential services, stressing there was much […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":299,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"country":[],"document-category":[2477],"document-source":[2169],"committee-meeting":[],"document-subject":[1945,2265,2005,2533,5200,2729],"entity":[1729],"document-language":[6542],"class_list":["post-317617","document","type-document","status-publish","hentry","document-category-news-item","document-source-office-for-the-coordination-of-humanitarian-affairs-ocha","document-subject-assistance","document-subject-ceasefire","document-subject-gaza-strip","document-subject-health","document-subject-humanitarian-relief","document-subject-shelter","entity-united-nations-system","document-language-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document\/317617","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":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document\/317617\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":317650,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document\/317617\/revisions\/317650"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=317617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"country","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/country?post=317617"},{"taxonomy":"document-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-category?post=317617"},{"taxonomy":"document-source","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-source?post=317617"},{"taxonomy":"committee-meeting","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/committee-meeting?post=317617"},{"taxonomy":"document-subject","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-subject?post=317617"},{"taxonomy":"entity","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/entity?post=317617"},{"taxonomy":"document-language","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-language?post=317617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}