Highlights of the noon briefing by Spokesperson for the UN Secretary-General (excerpt on Occupied Palestinian Territory) 11 July 2024

11 July 2024

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Occupied Palestinian Territory

The Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) says the UN and its partners continue to respond wherever and whenever possible, despite ongoing hostilities, access restrictions, impassable roads, fuel shortages, and a lack of public order and safety, all of which are obviously severely hampering all of our humanitarian operations.

The World Food Programme (WFP) says it has assisted about a quarter of a million people in Gaza so far this month. During June, the agency provided food rations for over a million people in Gaza.

However, limited food stocks in central and southern Gaza forced WFP to reduce rations last month, with some areas only receiving wheat flour.

So far this month, WFP has also worked with dozens of community kitchens in Gaza to provide about 1.8 million hot meals to people in central and southern Gaza, as well as Gaza City. But the agency warns that the supplies needed for this assistance will be depleted in just days unless additional stocks are received.

Meanwhile, the UN, along its humanitarian partners, are providing critical support to displaced people crossing from northern to southern Gaza, following Israel’s latest instructions for people to leave Gaza city. This includes water, hot meals, food parcels, and health and nutrition support.

The World Health Organization (WHO) says that more evacuation orders issued by Israel are further threatening the health of people who have already suffered so much. WHO’s Director-General, Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, said today that the Al-Ahli and Patient Friendly hospitals in northern Gaza are the latest unable to function due to fighting.

Meanwhile, more than 10,000 patients still need to be evacuated out of the Gaza Strip, because they cannot receive required treatment inside Gaza.

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