[Israeli] Violence and restrictions continue to drive humanitarian needs in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank [Palestine], while shortfalls in humanitarian funding are further holding back relief efforts

Humanitarian organizations provide emergency shelter and other essential support to #Palestinians displaced from their homes. But displacement continues to rise by the year while funding and operational space remain limited.

The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs in the Occupied Palestinian Territory mobilizes and coordinates assistance to people in need. 

Humanitarian Situation Report | 25 September 2026

Highlights

• Demolitions displaced 147 Palestinians across the West Bank in one week, more than three times the 2026 weekly average, including 58 people in South ‘Anata Bedouins, near the area designated for the E1 settlement expansion plan.
• Israeli forces’ operations and movement restrictions disrupted access to essential services for thousands of Palestinians in Ramallah governorate, while operations by Israeli forces in Nablus temporarily displaced families and closed schools and a health clinic.
• Funding shortfalls threaten mobile health services in Area C: 20 locations are at risk of losing mobile-clinic coverage without continued funding, while 17 locations are already without services.
• In Gaza, shortages of cancer medications, chemotherapy and radiotherapy supplies, dialysis materials, insulin and engine oil – caused by underfunding and lack of clearance for limited available medicines to enter Gaza – are disrupting life-saving services.
• The new academic year in Gaza began on 19 September with an estimated 200,000 children remaining out of school, amid funding shortfalls. Partners had prepared by removing rubble, cleaning some classrooms and providing bags and stationery. In the Strip, approximately 495,000 preschool and school-aged children are enrolled in learning spaces supported through the UN and partners’ humanitarian response.
• Funding shortfalls and restrictions are severely constraining preparations for the rainy season, with very limited available stocks covering only a fraction of the needs; hundreds of child-friendly spaces and protection services face disruptions.
• Across the Gaza Strip, 451 displacement sites identified as being at high risk of flooding are hosting an estimated 464,402 people.

Overview

Violence and restrictions continue to drive humanitarian needs in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, while shortfalls in humanitarian funding are further holding back relief efforts. Addressing Member States as part of the General Assembly High-level Week, the United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres said that "we must not lose sight of the devastating situation in the Occupied Palestinian Territory."

Regarding Gaza, he said that “the resumption of assistance since the ceasefire was announced last October has brough some relief – but conditions remain intolerable... International law, including international humanitarian law, is brazenly violated. Humanitarian access remains severely restricted, and the level of human suffering is still off the charts.” He reiterated the need to allow the UN to perform its mandates in Gaza and for UN and humanitarian personnel to be protected, stressing that all parties must comply with international law and the orders of the International Court of Justice.

Regarding the West Bank, he said that "record levels of settler attacks and relentless efforts to expand settlements are pushing Palestinian communities to the breaking point. Such actions are unlawful and unjust." The Secretary-General further said that violence, displacement and settlement expansion by Israel "are bulldozing the path to peace and raising the spectre of ethnic cleansing."... READ MORE  https://www.ochaopt.org/content/humanitarian-situation-report-25-september-2026

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1939, Iqrit, Palestine - At the time of their eviction in November 1948, Iqrit was home to 491 residents, the majority of whom 432 were Melkite (Greek Catholic) Christians living throughout the village, the remaining 59 Muslim inhabitants either rented homes in Iqrit or had built houses in the nearby area of esh-Shafaya. By 1948, the villagers collectively owned around 600 dunams (approximately 600,000 m²) of private land. Much of this area was covered with fig groves that served both the people of Iqrit and neighboring communities....

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1939, Iqrit, Palestine  

 

At the time of their eviction in November 1948, Iqrit was home to 491 residents, the majority of whom 432 were Melkite (Greek Catholic) Christians living throughout the village, the remaining 59 Muslim inhabitants either rented homes in Iqrit or had built houses in the nearby area of esh-Shafaya. 

 

By 1948, the villagers collectively owned around 600 dunams (approximately 600,000 m²) of private land. 

 

Much of this area was covered with fig groves that served both the people of Iqrit and neighboring communities. 

 

These groves spread across the hill of al-Bayad, while the remaining cultivated lands were used to grow lentils, tobacco, and various fruit trees. 

 

Iqrit had a private elementary school managed by the Greek Catholic Archdiocese, as well as a large Melkite church that still stands today. 

 

The village was rich in natural water sources, including two springs, numerous wells, and a large pool that collected rainwater. 

 

Several threshing floors lay between the residential area and the cemetery, reflecting the agricultural life that once flourished in Iqrit.

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Palestine Remembered  

 

Before & After Nakba, Click Map For Details 

 

https://www.palestineremembered.com/Acre/Iqrit/index.html 

 

In November 1948, Iqrit was completely ethnically cleansed... by Zionist troops  

 

Some of the refugees were bused to Lebanon, to al-Rashedyah refugee camp, and the rest were bused al-Rama, 20 km south. 

 

Village Before Nakba

The village was located on a steep hill a few kilometers from the Lebanese border. It overlooked uneven terrain on the east and Wadi al-Bassa (which descended towards the sea) on the west. A secondary road, on which a good number of villages were also located, linked it to the Acre-Ra's al-Naqura coastal highway. Iqrit could be traced back to the Canaanites, who erected a statue on the site representing the god Melqart of Tyre. The Crusaders occupied it and called it Acref. Like other villages in Palestine, Iqrit was devastated by the events of the Crusades. It was subsequently rebuilt, and by 1596 this village in the nahiya of Tibnin (liwa' of Safad) had a population of 374. It paid taxes on goats and beehives and on its press, which was used for processing either olives or grapes. In the late nineteenth century, Iqrit had a population of about 100. The buildings in the village were made of stone and included a modern chapel. Situated on a tell, the village was surrounded by arable land, which the villagers planted with fig and olive trees...  READ MORE  https://www.palestineremembered.com/Acre/Iqrit/index.html

New Israeli barrier will slice through precious West Bank farmland- Palestinians who have worked the ‘breadbasket’ area for generations face being replaced by Israeli settlers... “All these [Palestinian] families have title deeds. They grow grapes, peppers, tomatoes, potatoes, bananas, za’atar and olives. This land is very rich and that is the reason it is being taken. The whole aim is to take it over for settlers to use it.” Abdullah Bsharat: The council leader said he had been told by Israeli officers that the road and barrier would together be 50 metres wide, but Palestinian buildings or farmwork would not be allowed along a 200-metre cordon on either side.

Julian Borger and Quique Kierszenbaum in Atouf, West Bank

Sat 13 Dec 2025

THE GUARDIAN 

 

" “It is happening all through the Jordan valley, especially in the north. Israel is pushing forward, and accelerating the ethnic cleansing of this area,” said Dror Etkes, an Israeli activist who is the founder of the Kerem Navot organisation, which monitors Israeli land policy in occupied Palestine." 

The fertile land around the village of Atouf in the West Bank. Photograph: Quique Kierszenbaum/The Guardian

The death knell for the Palestinian village of Atouf, on the western slopes of the Jordan valley, arrived in the form of a trail of paper, a series of eviction notices taped to homes, greenhouses and wells, marking a straight line across the open fields.

The notices, which appeared overnight, informed the local farmers that their land would be confiscated and that they had seven days from the date of their delivery, 4 December, to vacate their properties. A military road and accompanying barrier was to be built by Israel right through the area.

Lawyers for the Atouf village council have lodged an appeal, but long and bitter experience has taught Palestinians here to have low expectations of Israeli courts.

“The Israeli military can do anything they like. They don’t care about the law or anything else,” said Ismael Bsharat, a local farmer.

Similar eviction notices had been delivered on the same day all along an almost 14-mile (22km) strip of Palestinian farmland running north to south through Atouf, tracing out the route of the planned road and fence. And this week it became clear that this abrupt gash across Palestinian land was the first section of a new line of division that would redraw the map of the West Bank.

This week, Israel’s defence ministry made clear that this would mark only the first section of a new 5.5bn-shekel (£1.3bn) barrier that will eventually run 300 miles, from the Golan Heights on the Syrian border to the north all the way down to the Red Sea near Eilat. Labelled “Crimson Thread” by the Israeli military, the barrier will split countless Palestinian communities along its route... READ MORE    https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/dec/13/new-israeli-barrier-slice-through-precious-west-bank-farmland

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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

#Gaza’s war: 2 years too long. 🔴 Over 66,100 people reported killed 🔴 Nearly all of Gaza’s residents have been displaced 🔴 Nearly 80 per cent of structures damaged or destroyed 🔴 Over 370 UNRWA workers killed 🔴 UNRWA continues to provide critical services.

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#Gaza’s war: 2 years too long.  

 

Over 66,100 people reported killed  

 

Nearly all of Gaza’s residents have been displaced  

 

Nearly 80 per cent of structures damaged or destroyed  

 

Over 370 UNRWA workers killed 

 

UNRWA continues to provide critical services. 

 

Read UNRWA response here:  https://unrwa.org/resources/fact-sheet/two-years-fast-facts

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Destruction in Rafah, southern Gaza Strip © January 2025 UNRWA photo

Sunday, October 5, 2025

Overview

This factsheet presents an overview of the humanitarian consequences of two years of war in the Gaza Strip, as of October 2025. It speaks to the impact of the war on the people of Gaza, with over 66,000 people reported killed and the mass displacement of almost the entire population. The factsheet also provides insights into UNRWA's emergency response and continuous delivery of essential services including healthcare, water and sanitation, psychosocial support, and learning activities throughout the war.

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Imagine fleeing your home under bombs, only for Israel to declare it “absentee property” and give it to someone else forever. That’s why Palestinians remain refugees – because leaving means losing everything to Israeli law. People say “just resettle Palestinians elsewhere.” But Israel wrote laws like the Absentee Property Law (1950) to steal homes of those forced out, and the Law of Return (1950) to hand that land to settlers. Apartheid is built into their legal system.

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People always ask, “Why don’t Arab countries just take in Palestinians?” Because Israel’s Absentee Property Law (1950) steals their land if they leave. If a Palestinian flees war, Israel calls their home “absentee property” and takes it. Ethnic cleansing by law.

People forget Israel has two key laws: the Law of Return (1950) lets any Jew in the world take land in Palestine, but the Absentee Property Law (1950) bans Palestinians from ever returning to their own homes*. Theft made legal.

Imagine fleeing your home under bombs, only for Israel to declare it “absentee property” and give it to someone else forever. That’s why Palestinians remain refugees – because leaving means losing everything to Israeli law.

People say “just resettle Palestinians elsewhere.” But Israel wrote laws like the Absentee Property Law (1950) to steal homes of those forced out, and the Law of Return (1950) to hand that land to settlers. Apartheid is built into their legal system.

Here’s the truth: Arab countries don’t permanently absorb Palestinians because Israel’s Absentee Property Law claims their land as abandoned if they leave. Settling them elsewhere would let Israel erase Palestine off the map.  

https://x.com/elderspeech/status/1946170555926741029

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*International Law makes it abundantly clear that every one- every person and every refugee- has an inalienble right to leave and to return to their homes and lands.  That is why Israel wants to undermine and abolish the United Nations and UNWRA.