UNRWA has resumed health, education, and WASH services in Gaza City as relative calm holds, while explosive hazards continue to endanger civilians.
In the West Bank, October is on track to be the most violent olive harvest season since 2013, with ongoing settler attacks on Palestinian farmers and lands.
Full report Monday, October 27, 2025 https://www.unrwa.org/resources/reports/unrwa-situation-report-194-situation-gaza-strip-and-west-bank-including-east-jerusalem
"UNRWA’s ability to restore services is limited by restrictions imposed
by Israel to bring in vital supplies, including much-needed equipment to
repair damaged facilities."
"UNRWA also continues to face a ban on
bringing humanitarian aid into the Gaza Strip.
Meanwhile, pre-positioned
outside Gaza, UNRWA has enough food parcels for 1.1 million people,
flour for 2.1 million individuals, and shelter supplies for up to 1.3
million people."
"All UNRWA international staff are prevented from entering the occupied
Palestinian territory (the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, including East
Jerusalem). This follows the passage of two laws by Israel’s parliament
(the Knesset) on 28 October 2024[3]
that prohibit UNRWA’s operations in what Israel defines as “Israeli
territory” and bar any contact between Israeli officials with UNRWA. The
Israeli authorities have not granted the Agency’s international staff
visas or permits to enter the occupied Palestinian territory, including
Gaza, since the end of January 2025."
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| Aerial view of the destruction south of Gaza governorate © October 2025 UNRWA photo. |
UNRWA Situation Report #194 on the Humanitarian Crisis in the Gaza Strip and the occupied West Bank, including East Jerusalem
... According to OCHA, between 7 October 2023 and 19 October 2025, 1,004 Palestinians – among them at least 213 children – were killed in the occupied West Bank, including East Jerusalem. Of those, 198 Palestinians, including at least 40 children, were killed since the beginning of this year alone.
- Repeated attacks by Israeli settlers on Palestinian communities have continued across the West Bank, primarily directed at Palestinians participating in the annual olive harvest. Some 3,000 trees and saplings have reportedly been vandalized in October alone. This month is on track to record the highest number of settler violence and harassment incidents since UNRWA began monitoring in 2013.
- Multiple eviction notices were served by Israeli authorities to Palestinian property owners in Qalandiya, north of Jerusalem. These eviction notices were purportedly linked to the re-activation of decades-old confiscation orders dating from the 1970s and 1980s for the expansion of the Atarot industrial zone.