Families return to their homes in Gaza despite the destruction, increasing displacement and annexation steps in the West Bank

The office reported that aid continued to enter the Strip, in the meantime, as more than 300 trucks loaded with aid were collected from the Palestinian side – most of them from the Kerem Shalom crossing – between Friday and Saturday.

The aid in those trucks included wheat flour, hot meal supplies, canned food, rice, diapers, jerrycans, and health supplies. Plastic sheets, tents and winter clothing, as well as hygiene kits, shelter supplies and post-natal kits, also entered Gaza.

The United Nations Office for Project Services distributed about 329,000 liters of diesel yesterday, Sunday, to support the health, food security, communications and other important humanitarian operations sectors.

More than a million hot meals

UN partners working with 170 community kitchens have delivered more than one million hot meals, mostly in Gaza with 15 UN-supported bakeries producing tens of thousands of loaves of bread in Deir al-Balah, Khan Younis and Gaza City. Community kitchens and shelters in hundreds of locations are distributing free bread.

In turn, United Nations spokesman Stephane Dujarric said that United Nations partners continued their work to reduce the threat of unexploded ordnance, reaching nearly 3,200 people in central and southern Gaza. And he said: “This is increasingly important as people move around.”.

He reported that since October 7, 2023, humanitarian workers have recorded 150 incidents of explosive ordnance resulting in injuries, including among children.

Attacks and displacement in the West Bank

Regarding the situation in the West Bank, the OCHA office reported that since the start of the olive harvest season on October 9, farmers and their lands have been subjected to more than 85 attacks by Israeli settlers, which has repeatedly disrupted the olive harvest.

These incidents resulted in the injury of more than 110 Palestinians, and the destruction of more than 3,000 trees and saplings in 50 villages. Last week alone, 17 attacks were recorded in 14 towns and villages, most of them in Ramallah Governorate.

In turn, the United Nations Office for Human Rights in the Occupied Palestinian Territory said on Monday in a statement that attacks launched by illegal Israeli settlers in the occupied West Bank, which are often carried out with the support or participation of Israeli forces, continue to spread fear, destroy homes and livelihoods, and force Palestinians to leave their lands.

He added that these practices reinforce the declared Israeli policy of consolidating the annexation of the West Bank, in clear violation of international law.

He said that the attacks that occurred over the weekend reflect the continuing state of instability experienced by Palestinians in the face of Israeli settler violence.

The office recorded incidents related to the olive harvest season, including what happened on October 24, when a video clip verified by the office showed an Israeli settler, with the participation of Israeli security forces, severely assaulting a 58-year-old olive farmer in the town of Nahalin, Bethlehem Governorate.

Emptying large areas of the bank

The office reported that settler violence extends beyond the olive harvest season, making daily life for Palestinians almost impossible, leaving them with no real choice but to leave their homes.

He said that with Israel escalating its campaign of forced displacement and emptying large areas of the occupied West Bank of their Palestinian residents, entire Bedouin communities have been displaced over the past two years.

He added that during the past year, 84 new settlement outposts were established, compared to 49 outposts the previous year, according to data from the Israeli NGO Peace Now, which is a steady escalation compared to an average of eight outposts annually during the past decade.

He warned that in connection with this, settler violence is also on the rise, as 757 attacks were recorded during the first half of 2025 alone, an increase of 13% over the same period last year. Most of these attacks were recorded in Area C, which is increasingly emptied of Palestinians.

Warning of the worsening labor crisis in the West Bank due to the war in Gaza

The International Labor Organization has issued a serious brief analyzing the impact of the two-year war in Gaza on the West Bank’s economy and labor market. The results show a sharp deterioration in livelihoods, with rising unemployment rates, declining incomes, and worsening poverty among Palestinians in the occupied Palestinian territory.

Although the two-year war has had devastating social, humanitarian and economic impacts on Gaza, its consequences have spread to the West Bank, the organization said, where tightening Israeli restrictions on movement – including more than 800 checkpoints and gates – have disrupted daily economic life, limiting access to jobs, markets and services.

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