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(Excerpt)<\/em><\/p>\n …<\/p>\n On Monday, at 11 a.m., there will be a briefing by Andrea De Domenico, Head of OCHA’s Office in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, on the humanitarian situation in Gaza.<\/p>\n …<\/p>\n Turning to the situation in Gaza, the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs is alarmed that ongoing hostilities and evacuation orders in Rafah continue to force the closure of key humanitarian facilities there.<\/p>\n According to partners working on nutrition, the Malnutrition Stabilization Centre in the Tal as Sultan area has completely ceased operations. Efforts are ongoing to relocate to the Nasser Medical Complex in Khan Younis.<\/p>\n Regarding reports from Tal as Sultan on the killing of two paramedics with the Palestine Red Crescent Society who were trying to respond to a call in that part of Rafah on Wednesday, the World Health Organization said it mourns their deaths and stressed that health workers are protected under international humanitarian law and must always be able to safely perform their duties.<\/p>\n As the hostilities in Rafah intensify, only three field hospitals there are still operating, one of them only partially. These facilities are both overwhelmed and undersupplied.<\/p>\n The UN Relief and Works Agency, UNRWA, says that on Wednesday and Thursday alone, some 32,000 people were displaced from Rafah. This follows the displacement of about a million people from that governorate since the start of the Israeli ground operation there. Families are looking for safety, but no place in Gaza is safe from bombardment.<\/p>\n Internally displaced people who have sought shelter at sites in Khan Younis still don\u2019t have enough safe drinking water. UN partners working to improve water, sanitation and hygiene access, including through the establishment of 10 new water points in Khan Younis. They report that overall, water production in Gaza is just one-fifth of what it was prior to the intensification of hostilities in Gaza in October.<\/p>\n Across Gaza, civilians face heightened health and environmental risks due to limited access to clean water, as well as sewage overflow, infrastructure damage, lack of hygiene items, and fuel shortages. In Khan Younis, there are no functional sewage pumping stations, and displaced families are building their own makeshift latrines.<\/p>\n …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" 31 May 2024 (Excerpt) … BRIEFINGS MONDAY On Monday, at 11 a.m., there will be a briefing by Andrea De Domenico, Head of OCHA’s Office in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, on the humanitarian situation in Gaza. … OCCUPIED PALESTINIAN TERRITORY Turning to the situation in Gaza, the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":299,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"country":[],"document-category":[2573,2565],"document-source":[5352],"committee-meeting":[],"document-subject":[2517,1769,1945,2005,1741,1745],"entity":[1729],"document-language":[6542],"class_list":["post-297844","document","type-document","status-publish","hentry","document-category-highlights-of-the-noon-briefing","document-category-press-briefing","document-source-secretary-general","document-subject-access-and-movement","document-subject-armed-conflict","document-subject-assistance","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\/297844","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":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document\/297844\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":297956,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document\/297844\/revisions\/297956"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=297844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"country","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/country?post=297844"},{"taxonomy":"document-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-category?post=297844"},{"taxonomy":"document-source","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-source?post=297844"},{"taxonomy":"committee-meeting","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/committee-meeting?post=297844"},{"taxonomy":"document-subject","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-subject?post=297844"},{"taxonomy":"entity","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/entity?post=297844"},{"taxonomy":"document-language","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-language?post=297844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}BRIEFINGS MONDAY<\/strong><\/h2>\n
OCCUPIED PALESTINIAN TERRITORY<\/strong><\/h2>\n