📅 19 Januari 2025
A ceasefire and prisoner exchange agreement took effect at 11:15 local time. The pause enabled a major increase in aid and some recovery of bodies from areas that had been inaccessible. It offered...
📅 18 Maart 2025
Israeli airstrikes and bombardment resumed across the Gaza Strip after a ceasefire of nearly two months. OCHA reported civilian deaths, injuries, renewed displacement, and damage to homes and...
📅 4 Mei 2025
The occupied Palestinian territory Humanitarian Country Team warned that a proposed system routing aid through Israeli-controlled hubs could exclude less mobile and vulnerable people and undermine...
📅 12 Mei 2025
The Integrated Food Security Phase Classification projected that the entire population would face crisis-level or worse acute food insecurity, with around half a million people at risk of catastrophic...
📅 18 Mei 2025
Israel launched an expanded military operation, described by its government as “Gideon’s Chariots,” while announcing that limited humanitarian aid could resume after more than eleven weeks of...
📅 19 Mei 2025
A small number of aid deliveries entered Gaza after the Israeli authorities allowed a limited resumption. OCHA described the deliveries as a “drop in the ocean” compared with needs and noted severe...
📅 11 Juni 2025
The UN emergency relief coordinator condemned attacks in which civilians seeking food and people delivering aid were killed or injured. The statement followed repeated reports of mass casualties at or...
📅 29 Juli 2025
The IPC issued an alert that its worst-case famine scenario was playing out amid widespread starvation, malnutrition, disease, displacement, restricted aid access, and collapsing essential services....
📅 22 Augustus 2025
The IPC Famine Review Committee concluded that famine was occurring in Gaza governorate and could expand to Deir al Balah and Khan Younis. It estimated that more than 640,000 people could face...
📅 7 Oktober 2025
On the second anniversary of the Hamas-led attacks in Israel and the ensuing war, UN officials described Gaza’s mass displacement, destruction, and humanitarian need and urged protection of...
📅 9 Oktober 2025
Israel and Hamas agreed to a first-phase ceasefire arrangement, prompting displaced Palestinians to move toward homes and aid agencies to prepare expanded deliveries. UN agencies stressed that all...
📅 10 Oktober 2025
A ceasefire came into effect at noon. The agreement called for aid to enter at levels consistent with the January 2025 ceasefire and for materials to repair hospitals, bakeries, roads, and...
📅 19 December 2025
A new IPC analysis found that famine conditions previously identified in Gaza governorate had been offset after the ceasefire and increased access. It nevertheless projected that about 1.6 million...
📅 30 December 2025
Israeli authorities notified 37 international NGOs that their registrations would expire at the end of 2025, triggering a 60-day wind-down period. UN humanitarian reporting warned that loss of these...
📅 2 Januari 2026
The Secretary-General warned that threatened suspension of international NGOs risked damaging fragile humanitarian gains and called for the measure to be reversed. The warning emphasized that...
📅 28 Februari 2026
The Israeli High Court of Justice issued a temporary injunction preventing changes to the existing registration status of several international NGOs while litigation proceeded. The UN-led Humanitarian...
📅 28 Februari 2026
Following the escalation of regional hostilities, crossings and humanitarian movements were disrupted. OCHA later reported that medical evacuations through Rafah and transfers through other...
📅 3 Maart 2026
Israeli authorities reopened Kerem Shalom for fuel and cargo arriving via Egypt and Israel. Supplies from Jordan and the West Bank remained suspended at the time of OCHA’s report, leaving a single...
📅 20 Mei 2026
Israel’s High Court rejected a petition by international humanitarian NGOs challenging a revised registration framework requiring disclosure of personal information about Palestinian employees. UN...
📅 19 Juni 2026
OCHA reported that Gaza’s Ministry of Health had recorded 1,005 Palestinian deaths and 3,157 injuries since the 10 October 2025 ceasefire announcement. These figures were attributed to the Ministry...
📅 10 Augustus 2026
UN experts condemned escalating attacks on Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank, stating that about 160 Palestinians had been killed in Gaza in July alone despite the ceasefire nominally in force...
📅 14 Augustus 2026
OCHA reported that Gaza’s Ministry of Health had recorded 1,259 fatalities and 4,148 injuries since 10 October 2025. The same report described continuing military activity, displacement, and damage to...
📅 28 Augustus 2026
OCHA reported that the Ministry of Health’s cumulative count since the ceasefire announcement had reached 1,303 Palestinian fatalities and 4,336 injuries. The report also described continuing attacks,...
📅 18 September 2026
Nearly a year after the ceasefire announcement, OCHA said civilians continued to face strikes, restrictions on essential supplies, widespread destruction, and critical humanitarian need. It reported a...
📅 2 Oktober 2026
OCHA reported that Gaza’s Ministry of Health had recorded 1,431 fatalities and 5,026 injuries since the ceasefire agreement was announced on 10 October 2025. OCHA also warned that funding shortages...
📅 15 Oktober 2026
OCHA reported continued airstrikes, shelling, gunfire, and displacement. It cited OHCHR verification of 1,076 conflict-related deaths between 10 October 2025 and the end of July 2026, including 331...
📅 20 Oktober 2026
Reuters reported that Israeli strikes and gunfire killed at least four Palestinians on 20 October, including a married couple in Gaza City and a 17-year-old in Khan Younis, citing health officials....
📅 21 Oktober 2026
WAFA reported that two Palestinians were killed and several others injured when a drone fired a missile near the UNRWA headquarters in the al-Rimal neighbourhood. The strike reportedly targeted a...
📅 22 Oktober 2026
WAFA reported that Gaza medical sources put the cumulative toll since October 2023 at 74,498 Palestinians killed and 175,616 injured. The sources said the count remained incomplete because victims...
📅 21 Oktober 2023
Twenty trucks carrying humanitarian supplies entered Gaza through the Rafah crossing from Egypt, the first such convoy since the escalation began. UN agencies described the shipment as a beginning,...
📅 27 Oktober 2023
Israel announced an expansion of ground operations in Gaza, accompanied by intense bombardment and a near-total communications blackout. People in Gaza lost contact with relatives, ambulances and...
📅 1 December 2023
The temporary pause ended after extensions and additional exchanges. Israeli bombardment and ground operations resumed, while Israel said Hamas had violated the pause terms. Palestinians in Gaza faced...
📅 22 December 2023
The Security Council adopted Resolution 2720 by 13 votes, with Russia and the United States abstaining. It called for urgent steps to enable safe, unhindered and expanded humanitarian access and...
📅 12 Februari 2024
Israeli forces said they rescued two Israeli hostages from Rafah in a predawn operation. OCHA reported that the operation involved intensive airstrikes and that Gaza health authorities reported dozens...
📅 2 Maart 2024
US and Jordanian forces conducted a joint airdrop of food into Gaza. The United States said the operation delivered about 38,000 meal equivalents. Airdrops offered a visible route for aid but could...
📅 7 Maart 2024
President Joe Biden announced that the US military would establish a temporary pier off Gaza’s coast to bring in aid by sea. The plan was presented as supplementary to land routes. Aid agencies...
📅 25 Maart 2024
The Security Council adopted Resolution 2728 by 14 votes in favour, with the United States abstaining. It demanded an immediate ceasefire for the month of Ramadan leading to a lasting sustainable...
📅 1 April 2024
On 1 April, Israeli airstrikes killed seven World Central Kitchen workers as they travelled in a marked convoy after unloading aid in Deir al-Balah. WCK said it had coordinated movements with the...
📅 8 Juni 2024
Israeli forces carried out a daytime operation in Nuseirat to recover four Israeli hostages. OCHA reported that Gaza’s Ministry of Health counted 274 Palestinians killed and 698 injured in intensive...
📅 12 Juni 2024
The UN Commission of Inquiry published findings on the conduct of the 7 October attacks and Israel’s military operations in Gaza. It found Israeli authorities responsible for war crimes and crimes...
📅 17 Oktober 2024
Israeli forces killed Hamas political and military leader Yahya Sinwar during an operation in Rafah, according to Israeli authorities; UN officials acknowledged his death the following day. Sinwar had...
📅 15 Januari 2025
The three mediators announced an agreement between Israel and Hamas on 15 January, expected to take effect on 19 January. The first 42-day phase included a ceasefire, exchanges of hostages and...
📅 26 Oktober 2026
On 26 October the UN Commission of Inquiry said Israeli authorities continued to commit genocidal acts in Gaza despite the ceasefire. The report, as summarized by The National, says Israeli control...
