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1.1. Humanitarian access and armed conflict-related incidents<\/strong><\/p>\n\n- From 5 to 11 May, one significant armed incident impacted Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵRWA facilities, personnel and persons supporting Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵRWA\u2019s activities:\n
\n- On 6 May, an Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵRWA Health Centre in Maghazi Camp was reportedly struck by bullets due to shooting by Israeli forces in East Maghazi. Minor damage to the health centre and no casualties among the staff were reported.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
\n- Since the beginning of the war and up to 12 May,\u00a0973*<\/strong>\u00a0incidents impacting Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵRWA premises and the people inside them have been reported.\u00a0312*<\/strong>\u00a0(or nearly all) Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵRWA installations have been impacted by armed conflict-related incidents, some of them multiple times. Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵRWA continues to verify and update the number of casualties caused by these incidents.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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1.2 Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵRWA response:<\/strong><\/p>\nHealth and nutrition<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n
\n- Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵRWA has provided over 18.3 million health visits, including 12.3 million medical consultations since the start of the war.<\/li>\n
- From 16 to 30 April, Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵRWA screened 5,765 children aged between six and 59 months at its health centres and medical points, identifying 189 malnourished children.<\/li>\n
- By 3 May, six health centres and four additional Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵRWA-rented facilities used as temporary health centres were operational in the Gaza Strip. In addition, by that date, Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵRWA was providing primary health services through 75 mobile medical teams working in 28 medical points inside and outside collective emergency shelters in the Middle Area, Khan Younis, Al Mawasi and Gaza City.<\/li>\n
- From 27 April to 3 May, an average of 1,066 Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵRWA health personnel per day worked in the Agency\u2019s health facilities across the Gaza Strip, providing 73,558 medical consultations in total.<\/li>\n
- \u00a0Between 27 April and 3 May, Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵRWA health teams provided 6,850 consultations for post-natal and pregnant women at high risk, 3,343 dental and oral health consultations in fixed and mobile clinics, and 2,640 physiotherapy rehabilitation services sessions in health centres and medical points. A total of 11,793 laboratory tests were conducted in Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵRWA health centres and medical points.<\/li>\n
- From 27 April to 3 May, 2,447 vaccination sessions were provided at health centres and medical points. In addition, a total of 229 students received routine immunisations through school health services.<\/li>\n
- Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵRWA\u2019s tele-medicine initiative began in March 2024 and has gradually expanded to include other services such as tele-dentistry, tele-physiotherapy, and tele-psychosocial counselling. Currently, following the establishment of the Centralised Telemedicine Centre, the team provides tele-consultations for curative outpatient care, non-communicable diseases, as well as maternal and cardiological consultations.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n
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Mental Health and Psychosocial Support (MHPSS)<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n- Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵRWA remains one of the largest providers of emergency learning and psychosocial support (PSS) services across the Gaza Strip.<\/li>\n
- Between 7 October 2023 and 10 May 2026, Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵRWA\u2019s social work team provided services to 269,773 displaced persons, including psychological first aid, PSS services, family and individual activities, and case management. During the same reporting period, services were provided to 4,356 survivors of gender-based violence (GBV) and 7,340 children, including 3,337 unaccompanied children. The team supported 35,988 persons with disabilities with PSS. Awareness sessions on GBV, child protection, disability inclusion, as well as managing social and psychological stressors, were conducted for 157,485 displaced persons.<\/li>\n
- Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵRWA health teams, including 49 psychiatrists, psychosocial counsellors and supervisors, continued to provide MHPSS services in Gaza City, the Middle and Khan Younis areas, assisting special cases referred from Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵRWA health centres and collective emergency shelters. From 27 April to 3 May, Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵRWA teams had 3,561 visits in health centres and at health points providing individual consultations, awareness sessions, and support for protection cases.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Learning<\/strong><\/p>\n\n- Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵRWA provides learning services in the Gaza Strip in Temporary Learning Spaces (TLS) and through its distance learning initiative<\/li>\n
- Between 4 and 10 May, 64,523 children (28,888 boys and 35,635 girls), including 846 children with disabilities, took part in learning activities conducted across 678 classrooms in 77 Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵRWA collective emergency shelters.<\/li>\n
- Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵRWA also leverages digital tools to provide basic literacy and numeracy activities for over 280,000 children in Gaza, facilitated by approximately 7,500 teachers using self-learning material developed by Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵRWA that is hosted on the Agency\u2019s digital learning platform.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Food security<\/strong><\/p>\n\n- From 7 October 2023 until the start of the previous ceasefire on 19 January 2025, Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵRWA reached over 388,000 families, or nearly 1.9 million people, with two rounds of flour deliveries; at least 374,000 of those families received three rounds. During that ceasefire, which lasted until March 2025, Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵRWA reached over 2 million people with critical food assistance.<\/li>\n
- Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵRWA ran out of food at the end of April 2025. The Agency has been blocked by the Israeli authorities from directly bringing in any humanitarian assistance including food since 2 March 2025.\u00a0<\/u><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n- Since October 2023, Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵRWA has carried out emergency WASH activities across the Gaza Strip, at Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵRWA collective emergency shelters and informal displacement areas. Activities include operating and maintaining water wells and desalination systems and supplying water by truck. In addition, Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵRWA continues to maintain hygiene in its shelters and sites by distributing cleaning supplies, running community-based solid waste management, water tank disinfection campaigns, and pest control.<\/li>\n
- Between 16 and 30 April, Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵRWA teams collected around 3,300 tonnes of solid waste inside the Agency\u2019s Designated Emergency Shelters (DES) and surrounding areas. More than 2,200 cleaning campaigns were conducted, benefitting over 1,100,000 displaced persons. Activities included cleaning DES, cleaning and clearing 1,854 manholes as part of winterisation plans, as well as water desludging. Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵRWA teams also conducted over 5,100 hygiene promotion sessions over the same period.<\/li>\n
- Between 16 and 30 April, Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵRWA distributed around 93,750 cubic metres of domestic and potable water in various areas and from different sources, reaching over 850,000 displaced people daily.<\/li>\n
- In 2025, Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵRWA distributed 970,000 cubic metres of drinking and domestic use water , and collected and disposed of 70,000 tonnes of solid waste. Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵRWA estimates that around 1.7 million people benefitted from the Agency\u2019s water provision and solid waste collection services in 2025.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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