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."

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Our latest on the situation in #Gaza and the #WestBank:  

 

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."

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

https://www.unrwa.org/resources/reports/unrwa-situation-report-194-situation-gaza-strip-and-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.

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The Catholic Church of Maalul, Nazareth remains standing despite the village’s destruction in 1948 and the expulsion of its people. Today, Maalul is an Israeli military zone, but its original inhabitants visit the church on special occasions or to commemorate their history.

1930s, Nazareth, Palestine- A church in the Christian village of Ma'alul, about 6 kilometers west of Nazareth.

1930s, a postcard of the church.

Palestine Before Israel & After Israel

 

The Catholic Church of Maalul, Nazareth remains standing despite the village’s destruction in 1948 and the expulsion of its people. Today, Maalul is an Israeli military zone, but its original inhabitants visit the church on special occasions or to commemorate their history. 

The Catholic Church of Maalul, Nazareth remains standing despite the village’s destruction in 1948 and the expulsion of its people. Today, Maalul is an Israeli military zone, but its original inhabitants visit the church on special occasions or to commemorate their history. 

The Catholic Church of Maalul, Nazareth remains standing despite the village’s destruction in 1948 and the expulsion of its people. Today, Maalul is an Israeli military zone, but its original inhabitants visit the church on special occasions or to commemorate their history. 

https://x.com/PalCatholic/status/1884533043743899839/photo/1 

 

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An estimated one million of Gaza’s 1.1 million olive trees have been destroyed. Prior to the genocide Gaza produced 50,000 tons of olives annually.

 An estimated one million of Gaza’s 1.1 million olive trees have been destroyed. Prior to the genocide Gaza produced 50,000 tons of olives annually. Via Drop Site News. 

https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/gaza-olive-groves-oil-farmers-israel-war?publication_id=2510348&post_id=176657963&isFreemail=true&r=34riug&triedRedirect=true 

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Hajj Suleiman Abdel-Nabi’s olive farm in Al-Mawasi, Khan Younis, has gone dry from a lack of water as a result of the war. October 9, 2025. (Photo by Mohamed Suleiman.)

“We Estimate That Nearly One Million of Gaza’s 1.1 Million Olive Trees Have Been Destroyed” Gaza’s olive groves have been bulldozed by the Israeli military, dried up from lack of water, or remain inaccessible, leaving Palestinian farmers with little to harvest. Drop Site News Oct 20 On Sunday, the first day of the olive harvest in the village of Turmus’ayyer, near Ramallah in the occupied West Bank, a group of Israeli settlers attacked Palestinians farmers and residents in a brutal assault that left many people injured, including a Palestinian women who was knocked unconscious with a club. The incident was captured on video by journalist Jasper Nathaniel who said Israeli soldiers in the area led a group of Palestinian famers “directly into a brutal ambush by armed settlers.” Drop Site spoke to Nathaniel about what happened. You can listen to the interview here. In Gaza, Palestinian farmers are missing their third consecutive olive harvest as Israel’s war on the enclave has all but decimated Gaza’s olive groves. Gaza-based journalist Mohamed Suleiman spoke to olive farmers and agricultural experts to report on the state of olives and the olive oil industry in Gaza two years into the war and as a fragile “ceasefire” has taken hold.... READ MORE

"What Comes After Starvation in Gaza? For the severely malnourished, simply starting to eat normal meals again can cause sickness—even death." Clayton Dalton in The New Yorker

A malnourished two-year-old child at his family home in the Al-Shati refugee camp, in Gaza City.Photograph by Jehad Alshrafi / AP

"October 18, 2025

A few weeks ago, Soliman Zyad, a young health-care worker in northern Gaza, told me that his family was near starvation. On some days, he and his uncle AbdulKareem walked in search of food from 3 A.M. until the afternoon. “We swore we would not return home without finding flour,” Zyad told me. “People were ready to risk their lives for a single sack.” Almost forty per cent of the population was going days at a time without eating, according to the World Health Organization. Sometimes AbdulKareem would vomit from hunger and fatigue. His wife, pregnant with twins, was severely anemic. 

The latest food shortage in Gaza began in March, when Israel ended a ceasefire and imposed a blockade on all aid that lasted eleven weeks. After that, the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, which was backed by Israel and the U.S., began distributing limited amounts of aid; around three thousand Palestinians were killed while seeking food. This month, a United Nations study published in The Lancet reported that more than fifty-four thousand children are malnourished in Gaza. “Every family, by now, has been affected,” John Kahler, a pediatrician and a co-founder of MedGlobal, a humanitarian organization that operates in Gaza, told me. About one in five babies was born premature or underweight. MedGlobal cared for one infant, Rafeef, who weighed just four pounds at birth. Her mother was too malnourished to breast-feed; the baby cried constantly, began losing weight, and developed ulcers and infections. On August 18th, she died.

“We live day by day,” Eyad Amawi, a father of four who works as an aid coördinator in Gaza, told me in September. “We have just enough to survive, but not enough to carry out our normal activities.” On the black market, the price of a kilogram of flour—about ten cents before October 7, 2023—had risen to thirty-five dollars, when it could be found at all. Amawi often saw malnourished children who lacked the strength to play. He worried that months of famine had already inflicted irreversible damage. “We are losing the next generation,” he said. “They will suffer for all their lives from this.”.... "READ MORE https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-lede/what-comes-after-starvation-in-gaza

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"In September, 2023—just before October 7th—the United Nations published a report about a spike in Israeli ethnic cleansing of Palestinian communities in the West Bank. During the past two years, we’ve seen the situation in the West Bank get even worse. Tens of thousands of Palestinians have been pushed out of refugee camps. And dozens of Palestinian pastoral communities have been wiped off the map. Their inhabitants have been forced off their land by a combination of settlers and the Army, which are often indistinguishable from each other. So when we’re talking about ethnic cleansing, or an Israeli desire for ethnic cleansing, we shouldn’t talk about it purely in this future hypothetical way. It’s happening on a smaller scale every day." Isaac Chotiner

"The largest change that has happened in the past two years is that the possibility of large-scale ethnic cleansing has become very real. Of course, we’ve already seen large-scale ethnic cleansing within Gaza. But what I have seen over the past two years is an Israeli society that is powerful, that faces very few obstacles, and that has the ability, and, in the right circumstances, the willingness, to expel huge numbers of Palestinians and, in the view of many Israelis, resolve the Palestinian issue once and for all.

I’m talking about all of the territory under Israel’s control, so, historic Palestine."

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https://www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a/what-hamas-and-israel-have-learned-since-october-7th

Q. & A.

What Palestinians and Israelis Have Learned Since October 7th

Despite the ceasefire in Gaza, prospects for long-term peace seem worse than ever.

By Isaac Chotiner

October 16, 2025

Photograph by Saher Alghorra / NYT / Redux

"In September, 2023—just before October 7th—the United Nations published a report about a spike in Israeli ethnic cleansing of Palestinian communities in the West Bank....."   

"Next Wednesday it is expected that the international court of justice (ICJ) in The Hague will find against Israel for ending all cooperation with UN aid agencies including the main Palestinian agency, Unrwa...."

"Next Wednesday it is expected that the international court of justice (ICJ) in The Hague will find against Israel for ending all cooperation with UN aid agencies including the main Palestinian agency, Unrwa. 

The request for an ICJ advisory opinion initially brought by Norway and backed by a UN security council resolution will give the ICJ judges an opportunity once again to clarify that Israel as an occupying force had a legal duty to provide aid to the people of Gaza, and it has utterly failed to comply with that duty.

The PA foreign minister, Varsen Aghabekian, said the PA had learned from its mistakes and was now a state in the making. Speaking to a conference in Naples organised by IPSI the Italian thinktank, she said one of the most important changes the PA was undertaking involved the school curriculum.

But she said: “If we develop that curriculum to the best standards of the world but children that are taught that curriculum continue to live under dire occupation will that give them a narrative of peace? No. What will bring them a narrative of peace, and internalise it, is when children do not experience, on a daily basis, checkpoints, a humiliation, trees being uprooted, the farms being burned and the fathers killed.”"

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/oct/18/egypt-expected-to-lead-global-stabilisation-force-in-gaza-say-diplomats?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other 

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The UK believes the scale of the required funds in excess of $67bn (£50bn) is so vast that private finance will have to be used as well as Gulf donors.     The scale of destruction in Gaza City poses an urgent challenge for its population. Photograph: Anadolu/Getty Images

"The UN agency entrusted with the protection and welfare of Palestine refugees for three-quarters of a century, Unrwa, which I lead, was always meant to be temporary. The conclusion of its mandate was foreseen at its establishment. The choice before us today is whether to jettison a decades-long investment in human development and human rights by chaotically dismantling the agency overnight, or pursue an orderly political process in which Unrwa continues to provide millions of Palestine refugees with education and healthcare until empowered Palestinian institutions take over these services." Philippe Lazzarini, commissioner-general of Unrwa* 

‘The loss of education is the loss of the future itself’: Gaza’s children and teachers on two years without school With 97% of schools destroyed or damaged, 600,000 children have just begun their third year out of formal education. Three students and a teacher share their stories – and their hopes

‘I miss feeling normal’

Sarah al-Sharif, nine, Gaza City- Sarah's home and school were destroyed in the war

"I was seven when the war began. That morning on 7 October, I was sitting in my classroom, learning maths. I remember holding my pencil tightly when the first explosion shook the school. My heart felt like it stopped.

Soon after, my father came to take me home. I never saw that classroom again. My school is gone for ever. The Israeli army surrounded it, attacked the people sheltering inside and destroyed it completely. My home was also bombed – all these places are nothing but ashes now."

https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2025/oct/19/education-gaza-children-teachers-two-years-without-school

Thaslima Begum

Sun 19 Oct 2025 

‘We don’t want pity, we want action’

Juwayriya Adwan, 12, al-Mawasi, Khan Younis

It has been two years since I was last inside a real classroom. Two years since I heard the morning bell at Khawla Bint al-Azwar school, sat at my desk and raised my hand during my favourite class. Sometimes I still vividly remember the sounds and smells: chalk dust, pencil shavings, laughter echoing down the halls. But my school no longer exists; it was bombed by the Israelis soon after the war began. My books were burned, and some of my friends killed.

I was in fifth grade on 7 October: the last day I went to school. That morning, air raid sirens screamed through the corridors. Some children cried, others held hands tightly. Our teacher tried to calm us, but even her voice trembled. I remember wishing for a normal day; lessons, recess, a poem recital. Instead, that day became the last page of my old life.

Now I live with my parents, two brothers and sister in a crowded shelter in al-Mawasi, Khan Younis. The tent walls flap in the wind, keeping neither cold nor heat away. We queue for water and food. Electricity is a dream and privacy doesn’t exist. Hope feels fragile.

At night, I look up at the stars through the holes of my tent and wonder if my friends see the same sky. Some message me when they can, saying they miss school and have kept their old notebooks; like treasures from a lost world. I feel guilty because I’ve lost all of mine.

I once dreamed of becoming a teacher to help Gaza’s children learn, even when life was hard. Now I dream of being a journalist – to write, to speak and to show the world what it means to be a child in Gaza. I want to tell our stories of fear and hunger, but also courage. Because even here, amid death and ruins, our voices refuse to be silent. 

When there’s some ... READ MORE   https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2025/oct/19/education-gaza-children-teachers-two-years-without-school

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"Not only is Israel still killing and starving Palestinians, Israeli officials are openly declaring their intention to occupy Gaza. But none of that is part of the dominant media narrative about the “ceasefire” at the moment." Assal Rad

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"Not only is Israel still killing and starving Palestinians, Israeli officials are openly declaring their intention to occupy Gaza. But none of that is part of the dominant media narrative about the “ceasefire” at the moment."

 

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"If you’re not writing the truth about crimes against humanity, you’re culpable in them."

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"“Evictions” makes it sound like they didn’t pay their rent. An indigenous population is being forced out of their homes, off their land, brutalized by security forces & threatened with violence. Call it what it is. #Palestine " Assal Rad  https://x.com/AssalRad