MR. MARTIN GRIFFITHS, UNDER-SECRETARY-GENERAL FOR HUMANITARIAN AFFAIRS & EMERGENCY RELIEF COORDINATOR

Dead Sea, Jordan, 11 June 2024

Thank you very much indeed for this opportunity to speak. Thank you, Your Majesty [King Abdullah II ibn Al Hussein of Jordan], Mr. President [Abdel Fattah Al Sisi of Egypt], Honorable Secretary-General, excellencies, and friends of the people of Palestine.

The Humanitarian Situation Update is issued by OCHA Occupied Palestinian Territory three times per week. The Gaza Strip is covered on Mondays and Fridays, and the West Bank is covered on Wednesdays. The “Humanitarian Situation Update” is a rebranding of the “Flash Update”. The next Humanitarian Situation Update will be published on 14 June.

Disclaimer: Figures that are yet-to-be verified by the UN are attributed to their source. Casualty numbers have been provided by the Ministry of Health (MoH) or the Government Media Office (GMO) in Gaza and the Israeli authorities. Previous data breakdowns provided in this snapshot of women and children killed were attributed to the GMO based on reported fatalities. The fatality breakdowns currently cited are those that the MoH in Gaza has recently fully identified out of the higher number of casualties they report.

Statement by Martin Griffiths, Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator

(New York, 12 June 2024) As the powerful Group of Seven (G7) meets in Italy tomorrow, conflicts in Sudan, Gaza and beyond are raging out of control. War is pushing millions of people to the brink of starvation. Only technicalities prevent famines from being declared, as people are already dying of hunger.

The Humanitarian Situation Update is issued by OCHA Occupied Palestinian Territory three times per week. The Gaza Strip is covered on Mondays and Fridays, and the West Bank is covered on Wednesdays. Due to the upcoming Eid al-Adha holiday, the next update covering both the West Bank and Gaza Strip will be issued on 19 June.

التقرير الاحصائي اليومي لعدد الشهداء والجرحى جراء العدوان الاسرائيلي المستمر لليوم ال 254 على قطاع غزة
الاحتلال الاسرائيلي يرتكب 3 مجازر ضد العائلات في قطاع غزة وصل منها للمستشفيات 41 شهيد و 102 اصابة خلال ال 24 ساعة الماضية.

لازال عدد من الضحايا تحت الركام وفي الطرقات لا تستطيع طواقم الاسعاف والدفاع المدني الوصول اليهم
ارتفاع حصيلة العدوان الاسرائيلي الى 37337 شهيد و 85299 اصابة منذ السابع من اكتوبر الماضي.

وزارة الصحة الفلسطينية بغزة. 
         2024 يونيو 16

Noura Arafat, an MSF intercultural mediator, has lived in Nablus in Palestine’s West Bank all her life. She helps women from her community access the mental health support they need. This support is more crucial than ever since the start of the war in Gaza, which is having a devastating impact on access to basic services, such as medical and mental healthcare in the West Bank.

As someone with six siblings and a very tight-knit community network, family life is very important to Noura Arafat. She enjoys socialising, hiking and picnics with friends and family.