Urgent health update: Consequences of war on Gaza, West Bank/East Jerusalem, and Lebanon - July 12, 2025
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Articles
“We Could Have Saved So Many More”: Anguish and Death Caused by Israel’s Restrictions on Medical Supplies in Gaza, Physicians for Human Rights, here
The horror of Gaza’s children’s hospitals: One doctor’s experience of life and death in the warzone, by Tanya Haj-Hassan. A firsthand account of the systematic destruction of Gaza’s healthcare system and its especially bad consequences for children, leading many to die from treatable wounds and illnesses. here
A British Surgeon on What She Saw in Gaza’s Hospitals. Dr. Victoria Rose spent 21 days in the territory, treating people who were shot trying to get food and children with life-changing injuries from Israeli bombs. here
Lancet: Evaluating the impact of two decades of USAID interventions and projecting the effects of defunding on mortality up to 2030: a retrospective impact evaluation and forecasting analysis: USAID funding has significantly contributed to the reduction in adult and child mortality across low-income and middle-income countries over the past two decades. Our estimates show that, unless the abrupt funding cuts announced and implemented in the first half of 2025 are reversed, a staggering number of avoidable deaths could occur by 2030. here
European Journal of Trauma & Dissociation: A qualitative study investigated the detention, torture, and psychological abuse of Palestinian detainees in Gaza following 10/7/23. Based on accounts from 30 male detainees in Rafah, the study documents extreme mistreatment—including sexual violence and isolation—and examines the secondary trauma affecting detainees’ families. The study also documents detainees’ resilience through communal and personal coping strategies. The authors highlight “the urgent need for enhanced international intervention, comprehensive mental health support, and robust accountability measures to address and mitigate the enduring trauma and genocidal actions perpetrated through arbitrary detention and torture in Gaza.” here
BMC Nephrology: In a cross-sectional study conducted in 11/2024 among hemodialysis patients (n=260) in Gaza, approximately 82% of patients reported needing to seek healthcare outside their residential areas, 35% reported that accessing healthcare was dangerous, and 42% experienced significant care disruptions (median = 8.5 consecutive days without dialysis). The authors describe the “urgent need for coordinated humanitarian action to restore dialysis services, ensure access to essential medications, and safeguard vulnerable patient populations in conflict zones.” here
BMC Nursing: A cross-sectional study conducted in 4/2025, documents the high prevalence of exposure to violence among nursing students (n=335) in the West Bank. Approximately 63% of surveyed students reported regularly passing through Israeli military checkpoints and, of these students, 83% reported experiencing violence, including verbal (50%), psychological (39%), and physical (11%). here
VIDEO
Interview of Francesca Albanese and Marco Rubio's decision to sanction her. here
GAZA
Israeli forces continue air, land and sea bombardment, issued 4 additional displacement orders (86% of Gaza is now “off-limits”) and expanded ground attacks. Strikes on people sheltering in schools and tents and those seeking food, water and healthcare cause mass casualties. Since its inception, the mercenary Gaza Humanitarian Foundation has killed 773 and injured 5,101 people seeking food. The Israeli ban on fuel entry (130+ days) means hospitals and water systems are on the verge of
shutdown. 1 in 3 people go without food daily.
· This week: 688 Palestinians killed, 2,817 injured
· Since the breaking of the ceasefire: 7,118 Palestinians killed, 25,368 injured
· Killed since 10/07/2023: 57,680+
· Injured since 10/07/2023: 137,409+
· Israeli soldiers killed in Gaza: 444 (7 this week)
· Israeli soldiers injured in Gaza: 2,781
· Hostages in Gaza: 50
For more information: here
United Nations
· The UN Secretary-General stated he is “appalled by the deepening humanitarian crisis in Gaza,” where “[m]ultiple attacks in recent days hitting sites hosting displaced people and people trying to access food have killed and injured scores of Palestinians…The last lifelines for survival are being cut off.” He called for “full, safe and sustained humanitarian access so aid can reach people who have been deprived of the basics of life for far too long,” noting that the UN “has a clear and proven plan, rooted in the humanitarian principles, to get vital assistance to civilians – safely and at scale, wherever they are.”
· UN Gaza investigator Francesca Albanese says US sanctions against her a sign of ‘guilt’ . here
Israeli attacks
· 7/1-8, attacks on 7 schools sheltering IDPs killed 42, injured others, and displaced dozens of families. The lack of alternative shelter caused many to return to damaged schools.
· 31 killed in shelters and waiting for water in Gaza City; 14 killed (3 children) in An Nuseirat camp and a café in Dier al Balah; 10 killed in Jabalya; 17 killed (4 children) in al Mawasi area; 30 killed (2 children) and dozens wounded waiting for food trucks or in IDP tents in Khan Younis.
· MSF (Doctors Without Borders) condemned the death of Abdullah Hammad, a former MSF worker who was shot dead by Israeli on July 3. Colleagues say Hammad was part of a group of Palestinians seeking to collect flour from an aid truck in Khan Younis when Israeli forces struck without warning, killing at least 16 people. Hammad is the 12th member of Doctors Without Borders killed by the Israeli military since Ocober 2023. (Democracy Now/7/7)
· 7/10, Israeli airstrikes killed at least 47 Palestinians across Gaza, including scores of women and children waiting at a U.N. clinic in Deir al-Balah, as civilian infrastructure and displacement camps came under attack According to local sources, the airstrike hit a queue where nutritional supplements were being distributed to children. (Palestine Chronicle 7/10)
· Israel’s Military Appears Poised to Expand Into Gaza City Amid Cease-Fire Calls. The notifications for people to leave parts of Gaza City, where Israeli troops have refrained from operating for months, as well as other areas in northern Gaza, came as the Israeli military warned that it would intensify operations that would expand west toward the city center. Residents were instructed to move south. here
Hospitals & healthcare
· The daily influx of trauma patients amid shortages of fuel, medicines, supplies and bed capacity makes the job of healthcare workers impossible, as they too face hunger, insecurity, displacement and risks to personal safety. The ICRC states: when shooting occurs, “women in the maternity ward are forced to move to the floor because they cannot be moved while giving birth.” Surgeons and staff work with gunfire around them, knowing a bullet “could pierce the canvas of the operating theater at any moment.”
· WHO representative Dr. Rik Peeperkorn stated Nasser Medical Complex “is one massive trauma ward.” The 350-bed capacity hospital is currently treating 700 patients, many wounded in incidents at militarized distribution sites. ICU patients are in every area of the hospital due to the lack of ICU space, without necessary infection controls. A shortage of all critical supplies.
· 'Medicine Can Be Imported, Doctors Cannot': IDF Killing of Hundreds of Gaza Medical Workers Deepens Health System Crisis. “At least 1,580 healthcare workers have been killed in Gaza since October 7, according to Gaza's Health Ministry. Amid mounting international criticism, the IDF has rejected claims of deliberately targeting the health system, but has yet to offer alternative explanations for its multiple strikes on hospitals, ambulances and medical personnel.” here
· 7/2, the cardiologist Director of Indonesian Hospital, Dr. Marwan Al Sultan, was killed with his wife, sister, daughter, and son-in-law in a targeted attack on his residence in Gaza City.
· 7/5, an OB-GYN was killed with his 3 children in their tent in Al Mawasi.
· 7/4, Red Cross reported a staff member at their Field Hospital in Rafah was shot on duty. 2 Red Crescent emergency medical technicians were injured while providing emergency care to wounded in Jabalya Al Balad, narrowly escaping death, and were transferred to their Gaza City Field Hospital.
· 7/6, the MoH stated that Gaza's labs and blood banks face a critical blood shortage. Efforts to encourage community blood donations are no longer effective, as widespread malnutrition and anemia have left most physically unable to donate.
· 7/8, PRCS announced the shutdown of Az Zaytoun Medical Clinic in Gaza City due to shelling posing “a serious threat to the safety of medical teams and patients.” Since 10/23, 18 PRCS medical clinics have been forced out of service.
· A shortage of fuel and supplies will shut Al-Shifa Medical Complex in Gaza City, warned hospital director Dr. Mohammed Abu Selmiyah, noting the dialysis unit had closed to preserve electricity for ICUs and operating rooms. A similar situation threatens Nasser Medical Complex. Access to Nasser and Al Amal hospitals is intermittent due to their location in conflict areas and displacement orders. A communication from Nasser on 7/11: “We are working now in the hospital, and the tanks are only a few meters away from us. We are closer to death than to life. The soldiers show no mercy—not to a child, nor an elder, nor a doctor or a nurse. We remain here because we are human and our mission is humanitarian… Don’t forget us. Don’t turn us into numbers…”
· No Cancer Care, No Dialysis, No Power: Gaza's Health System Is on the Brink of Collapse. “Hospital beds and operating rooms have been cut by half, essential medicines have run out, and not a single MRI machine remains in Gaza. Only a third of hospitals are still functioning – and even those are barely holding on. Two of the largest hospitals have now announced that they will soon shut down, signaling the system's imminent collapse.” here
· As of 7/7, 21 emergency medical teams (EMTs), including two national and 19 international EMTs, were operational across Gaza, down from 27 during the ceasefire.
· 7/2, WHO evacuated 23 patients (19 children) and 46 companions for specialized care.
· UNRWA provides approx. 800 consults weekly for women and girls across Gaza. Inadequate nutrition and poor hygiene have contributed to adverse maternal and neonatal outcomes, including anemia, infections, and high-risk pregnancies.
· 484 suspected meningitis cases were reported in June 2025. The current surge is significantly higher than in previous years. Khan Younis and Gaza City remain the most affected, reporting the highest numbers of suspected cases. Accurate case classification is challenging due to limited access to diagnostic tests that can identify the bacteria causing the disease.
· Lina Abu Safiya, wife of detained pediatrician Hassam Abu Safiya pleads for his release recounting his refusal to abandon patients or colleagues and the loss of their son in Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza. She is urging the international human rights community, professional associations, and global institutions to intervene to release her husband and to end the systematic targeting of Gaza’s medical workers. (Palestine Chronicle 7/9)
· 7/2, Health Care Workers’ Watch warned that Israeli occupation forces have now killed or imprisoned the heads of all hospitals in Northern Gaza, including Dr. Marwan Al-Sultan, director of Indonesian Hospital. “Israel’s obliteration of healthcare workers is not only causing a horrible loss of life but also obliterating decades of their medical expertise when they could not be needed more.” Since 10/2023, more than 1500 medics have been killed by Israeli forces – while Gaza’s healthcare system edges ever closer (People’s Health Dispatch 7/7)
Aid
· 7/2-8, of 69 aid movements coordinated with Israeli authorities: 30% were denied, 17% faced impediments, 36% were facilitated, and 17% were withdrawn.
· Although Israeli authorities say there is no restriction on the number of trucks that can enter, the list of permitted items remains unchanged, with limits on health, nutrition, food, water treatment items, and hygiene kits. Limits on organizations authorized to deliver cargo also restricts aid flow.
· West Bank crossings designated for the movement of medical items to Gaza are often closed, resulting in only 3 of 7 attempted shipments able to cross and offload health supplies at the Kerem Shalom/Karem Abu Salem crossing.
· Cargo positioned in the Egypt corridor continues to be denied entry into Gaza. As of 6/30, 687 trucks for UN and international NGOs, 57% of which carry food, are denied entry.
· Palestine testimonies of deliberate Israeli killings at U.S.-run “aid sites” were ignored until the perpetrators admitted to it. (Mondoweiss 7/10)
· The Gaza Humanitarian Foundation has taken over the aid system in Gaza on behalf of the Israeli army by cultivating a local network of companies and organizations to collaborate in its operations. The organizations that refused have been shut down. here
Older Persons
· A new UNRWA publication highlights risks facing elders, many of whom have been left without protection, support, or even access to basics needed for survival. Limited mobility, chronic health conditions, and the collapse of health and support systems contribute to their vulnerability, intensified by frequent forced displacement, chronic food and water shortages, and overcrowded, unhygienic living conditions. Israeli restrictions on entry of assistive devices pose additional challenges. One elderly woman in Rafah told UNRWA: “My husband fell ill at night. We just sat and cried... there was no ambulance, no one could hear us.” Others expressed a deep sense of loss regarding the destruction of everything they built and knew – from family members to homes and neighborhoods. Repeated displacement and the struggle to survive has led to neglect of older relatives, verbal and psychological abuse, and to feeling like a burden. 4,137 elders have been killed since 10/23; the number who have died of preventable causes due to a lack of access to basic services remains unknown.
Children
· Dr. Youssef Adawallah, a clinical psychologist in Gaza, paints a grim picture: “Children here are not just grieving – they’re aging before their time. They carry cemeteries of memory within them.” He says many children have stopped speaking. They cannot play anymore. Young girls as young as six carry infants and manage entire households. “This forced maturity causes deep psychological fractures. (Palestine Chronicle)
· “I think we’re beyond words at the moment. What the medical teams are now reporting is that especially the children, the wounded children are not healing after surgery, because their bodies are incapable of healing,” said renowned conflict surgeon Ghassan Abu Sittah/ (DAWN 7/10)
Food Security
· WFP Deputy Executive Director and COO Carl Skau stated: “The situation is the worst I’ve seen. Needs are higher than ever, and our ability to respond has never been more constrained. Starvation is spreading – people are dying just trying to find food.” He called for opening all routes and entry points into Gaza, for safety and a lasting ceasefire, stressing: WFP has “the food, capacity, and readiness to deliver.”
· A WFP assessment found 1 in 3 people do not eat daily and more are at risk of starvation. Food aid entering Gaza does not reach the 2.1 million Gazans – half of whom are children. The latest IPC finding warns of the likelihood of famine before 9/30.
· 7/9, UNRWA reported a child under 7 months old died of malnutrition: “She is one of thousands of malnourished children in Gaza. More cases are detected every day.”
· Israeli-supported looting and theft of food has paused the collection of cargo from crossings.
· Doctors in Gaza have warned that hundreds of infants in Gaza are at risk of death amid a critical shortage of baby milk. Dr. Ahmad al-Farra, head of pediatrics at Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis said he has about a week’s worth of infant formula left; he has already run out of specialized formula for premature infants. “…we also have babies outside the hospital without any access to milk. It’s catastrophic.” Already 66 Palestinian children have starved to death. (The Guardian 7/5)
· Aid Groups: Infants Are Dying in Gaza Because Israel Impedes Import of Baby Formula. “International organizations say that the Israeli government insists on them buying baby formula through it and paying customs duty – leaving much aid stuck outside Gaza. Israel denies the allegations, but according to UNRWA, the percentage of Gazan children suffering from malnourishment has doubled since March.” here
Water & Sanitation
· Besides the Israeli blockade on fuel, as of 7/4, 80% of WASH facilities are now within the Israeli-militarized and displacement zones. Many wells have ceased functioning and desalination plants operate at minimal capacity, creating a drought crisis made in Israel.
· WASH and Health clusters warn that water-borne diseases are on the rise. Acute watery diarrhea is 39% of reported illnesses, as bloody diarrhea and acute jaundice syndrome emerge at overcrowded displacement sites. Since they ended the ceasefire, Israeli authorities have denied entry to hygiene items, including cleaning supplies essential to protecting public health. Despite recent Israeli “approval,” no hygiene items have been allowed to enter Gaza for 4 months. Poor hygiene and inadequate nutrition contribute to adverse maternal and neonatal outcomes, including anemia, infections, and high-risk pregnancies.
Displacement
· Over 680,000 people in Gaza have been newly displaced since March 2025, according to the U.N. “Less than 18% of Gaza remains outside of Israeli-militarized zones or displacement orders. People are living wherever they can find space to pitch a tent, many in locations they would have previously considered uninhabitable. ((Electronic Intifada 7/10)
· Israel's plan to have 'concentration camps' in Rafah terrifies displaced Palestinians in Gaza. "This isn't a humanitarian city; it's a concentration camp built atop our destroyed homes," said Mohammed Rayyan, a 41-year-old from northern Gaza. here
WEST BANK, INCLUDING EAST JERUSALEM
In the past week, 5 Palestinians killed (1 child) and 87 (15 children) injured.
153 West Bank Palestinians have been killed so far in 2025.
For more West Bank information: here
Israeli attacks
· 7/1, while raiding and searching homes, Israeli forces shot and killed a boy in Ramallah. The boy was uninvolved and crossing a road with a relative when shot. 4 Palestinians were arrested.
· 7/1, Israeli forces shot and killed a Palestinian trying to use an informal opening in the Barrier near Meitar checkpoint. Since October 2023, 13 Palestinians have been killed and 129 others injured while attempting to pass through informal openings to East Jerusalem and Israel. Most Israeli-issued work permits for Palestinian workers have been revoked or suspended.
· 7/3, Israeli forces shot and killed an elderly man riding a bicycle who had been displaced by Israel’s operation in Tulkarm Camp. They transferred him to an area near Nur Shams Camp, where the Red Crescent then took him to a hospital where he was pronounced dead.
· 7/7, Israeli forces shot and killed 2 Palestinian men and injured another during a raid in Salim village (Nablus). They surrounded a house and called on a man to surrender, shooting his father-in-law when he opened the door and killing a neighbor and relative attempting to assist the injured man. The sought Palestinian was later killed outside the house and his body was withheld by Israeli military.
Settler Attacks
Last week, 27 settler attacks caused casualties, property damage, or both, injuring 40 Palestinians – 9 by settlers and 31 by Israeli forces. 11 vehicles and 150 fruit and olive trees were vandalized.
· Settlers from Evyatar outpost raided Beita town, south of Nablus, twice. 7/4, accompanied by Israeli forces, they threw stones at Palestinians and when they gathered to protect themselves, Israeli forces fired bullets and tear gas, injuring 30. Settlers then attacked and damaged an ambulance. The next day, settlers accompanied by Israeli forces again threw stones and set fire to vehicles, injuring one.
· 7/1-7/5, in Sinjil town and Jiljiliya village (Ramallah), settlers from an outpost on Tell Mountain in Area B attacked Palestinians 5 times, injuring 7 and damaging homes, vehicles, and agricultural structures. 7/4, Israeli forces intervened, firing live ammunition, sound grenades, and tear gas. Settlers blocked a Palestinian ambulance on Road 60. The outpost has been linked to a series of attacks, access restrictions, and damage to agricultural lands belonging to residents of Sinjil town and Jiljiliya village.
· 7/2, settlers raided Susiya community (Hebron), injuring 2 (1 child) and fleeing when police arrived. The community has suffered a rise in settler-related attacks – from 5 in 2020 to 33 in 2024, and 26 so far in 2025. Over the past 2 years, they have faced near-daily intimidation, night raids, threats, and destruction of property, contributing to a coercive environment that pressures Palestinians to leave their homes.
· 7/2-3, settlers attacked Palestinian families in Al Mu’arrajat East Bedouin community (Jericho), displacing 20 households (120 residents, 66 children). The entire community of about 170 people is now fully depopulated, the area’s 9th community displaced in the past 2 ½ years. The remaining 4 communities are at high risk of displacement due to recurrent settler attacks.
Demolitions, displacement and movement restrictions
This week, Israeli authorities demolished 38 Palestinian-owned structures for lack of Israeli-issued building permits, displacing 13 households (55 people, 24 children) and affecting the livelihoods of 90 people.
· Half the people displaced (31 of 55) were in 2 incidents in Area C (Ramallah). In both cases, the families’ furniture and personal belongings were destroyed.
· 2 other incidents in Area C (Jerusalem) demolished 14 structures in Az Za’ayyem Bedouin community and 5 in Abu Nuwar. Both were located adjacent to the Israeli E1 settlement plan area, which aims to expand the Ma’ale Adumim settlement and connect it to Jerusalem.
· 6 structures were demolished in East Jerusalem, including 2 families of 6 (3 children) in Silwan.
· 7/9 is the 21st anniversary of the International Court of Justice’s (ICJ) Advisory Opinion on the Legal Consequences of the Construction of a Wall in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (known as the "Wall Opinion"), stating the Barrier violates Israel’s obligations under international law, calling on Israel to cease construction and dismantle sections completed within the OPT, including in and around East Jerusalem, and “repeal or render ineffective forthwith all legislative and regulatory acts relating thereto.” Needless to say, the Barrier remains and its negative consequences on Palestinian lives persist.
For more on casualties, displacement and settler violence this year, see OCHA West Bank May 2025 Snapshot.
The Israeli Campaign to Annex the Northern West Bank
· Two days after the short-lived Gaza ceasefire began on 1/19/25, Israel launched the “Iron Wall” military campaign in the northern West Bank. Beginning in Jenin and expanding through the Jenin, Tulkarm, Nur Shams and El Fara’a refugee camps and surrounding towns, the operation deployed helicopter gunfire, airstrikes, ground force operations, and tanks to displace around 40,000 Palestinians and force UNRWA to suspend services.
· Of the 126 West Bank Palestinians (23 children) killed by Israeli forces in the first half of 2025, 60% of the deaths occurred in the north. Israeli forces established military posts in evacuated camps and have bulldozed housing and infrastructure, including roads, water and stormwater infrastructure, and telecommunications networks. Municipal reports suggest the ongoing operations in Jenin and Tulkarm have so far destroyed all functioning or recently repaired water and sewage infrastructure across the refugee camps and some of the surrounding areas.
· In addition to barring access to the camps, Israeli forces have intensified movement restrictions, road closures and checkpoints, disrupted access to schools, health centers, workplaces and markets, and posed challenges to daily life and humanitarian operations. Aid agencies are prevented from carrying out assessments inside the camps.
· 2/23, the Israeli Ministry of Defense announced that camp residents would not be allowed to return. The Israeli military issued demolition orders for hundreds of camp structures, and dozens of homes have been demolished. Despite a 7/2 Israeli Supreme Court injunction freezing them, demolitions continue in Tulkarm and Nur Shams refugee camps. The Palestinian Authority coordinated with the Israeli military a brief window of access for some 200 households to retrieve their belongings. Nonetheless, an Israeli military drone struck and injured a couple retrieving their belongings. 7/6, the Supreme Court amended their decision to allow demolitions to continue in cases of “urgent combat needs or overriding security considerations.”
· Israeli forces in recent operations in Nablus have shot and injured or killed Palestinians, assaulted men, women and children, imposed curfews, and conducted destructive searches of people’s homes. So far in 2025, about 40% of West Bank Palestinians injured by Israeli forces have occurred in Nablus governorate.
Food Security & Nutrition
· UN agencies and international and local NGOs reached over 93,570 people in Jenin, Tulkarm, and Tubas with food parcels, hot meals and/or voucher-based assistance. They focused on displaced families, vulnerable households, and families affected by mobility restrictions and livelihood losses to alleviate food insecurity and ensure access to basic food supplies in the areas most affected by the Israeli operations.
· By supporting more than 3,000 farmers, small-scale food producers and herders facing difficulties accessing markets, they helped sustain local food production, provided income to affected producers, and ensured that displaced and other vulnerable families received fresh, locally grown food as part of emergency food distributions. Support included rehabilitation of greenhouses and livestock farms, supplying agricultural inputs and kits, repairing or providing water storage facilities damaged by the Israeli military, and distributing fodder.
· Movement restrictions in the northern West Bank (checkpoints, security-related closures, etc.) disrupt access to services and disproportionately affect displaced families as well as hamper farmers, laborers, and others from accessing markets, workplaces, farmland and income.
· UNRWA has integrated growth monitoring and nutrition counselling for Pregnant/Breastfeeding Women and children <5 in its West Bank clinics, with a focus on the northern West Bank.
· Current levels of acute malnutrition are slightly higher (2.15%) than during summer 2024 (1.15%). As of April 2025, stunting prevalence is worsening in Jenin (10% vs. 4% in 2024) and Tubas (6.4% vs. 6.1% in 2024). The decline in socio-economic indicators, movement restrictions, ongoing displacement, and cuts to MoH health centers to 2 days/ week all contribute to increasing child vulnerability to multiple forms of malnutrition (e.g. stunting, wasting, micronutrient deficiencies). Experience in Gaza shows that acute malnutrition can increase from less than 1% to emergency levels in only a few months. Each episode of child malnutrition has consequences on the physical and mental development of the child.
Water & Sanitation
· WASH partners mobilized water trucking to support IDPs and other households cut off from public supply by the Israeli destruction. They supplied bottled water and water tanks as well as supporting repair of water and sewage systems.
· WASH partners provided 20 emergency gender and disability sensitive mobile latrines to IDPs in Jenin and Tulkarm, serving about 400 people, and distributed 5,000 gender sensitive family hygiene kits to over 26,000 IDPs.
· WASH partners provided 1,060 solid waste containers, serving 50,000 people, and transferred 274 tons of waste to landfills.
Health & Hospitals
· Health Cluster partners delivered medical supplies and equipment to hospitals in Jenin, Tulkarm and Tubas governorates, serving up to 25,300 IDPs and others in host communities. They also deployed 76 healthcare workers and 10 midwives, and trained 610 health workers and 24 community volunteers in 1st aid.
· UNRWA now operates the Qabatiya health center (Jenin) 5 days a week. The average number of UNRWA daily medical consults in the northern West Bank have increased 20% in 2025 due to increased demand.
· In the first weeks of military operations, Israeli forces surrounded Jenin Governmental Hospital, destroying access roads, blocking the entrance, preventing delivery of food, medical supplies, and urgent necessities, and limiting access. 1/1-6/15, WHO documented 142 attacks on health workers, installations (3 UNRWA and 2 MoH clinics) and ambulances, which disrupted services and endangered patients and medical staff.
· Health Cluster partners’ mobile clinic services served 60,000 people in 49 locations, immunized 2,000 children and provided assistive devices and prosthetics to 125 people with disabilities.
· 12,000 people were reached by sexual and reproductive health (SRH) and maternal health interventions, including gender-based violence (GBV) awareness sessions for IDPs, and distributions of menstrual hygiene kits.
· Health partners provided 5,900 psychosocial support and psychological 1st aid consults to IDPs and other affected people in the 3 governorates.
· 2024 Knesset laws prohibiting UNRWA from importing medications has forced the use of high-cost local suppliers, straining limited resources. As of June, UNRWA faces a 12% shortage in essential medical items. Up to 75% of essential medicines will reach 0 stock levels in coming months, including those for chronic diseases (diabetes, cardiovascular diseases, asthma, etc.).
· MoH financial crisis has affected its health facilities: of 190 health service delivery points in the Jenin, Tubas and Tulkarm governorates, 62% (117) are partially functional, including 4 hospitals, 96 PHCs, 16 mobile clinics and 1 emergency center; 30% (58) are fully functional, including 5 hospitals, 11 PHCs, and 42 mobile clinics; and 8% (15) are nonfunctional, including 3 PHCs and 12 mobile clinics.
ISRAEL
· Malnutrition, Illness and Death – The Routine for Palestinian Prisoners at Israel's Megiddo Prison. Haaretz Exposé: “Sixteen-year-old Palestinian Ibrahim was held at Megiddo prison for eight months until the parole board said his condition had deteriorated to 'life-threatening underweight.' He talks about recurring scabies infections, intestinal disease, beatings and neglect – and a Haaretz probe reveals that this is the experience of many others, some of whom didn't survive.” here
· GHF developed plan to build concentration camps 'inside and outside' Gaza. Plans to forcibly displace the 2.2 million population of Gaza continue to emerge amid Israel's ongoing destruction of the strip.
· Israel's plans to push Palestinians to live in harsh conditions in Rafah, southern Gaza, have come under widespread attack by officials and activists who have described the proposed zones as “concentration camps”. Defence Minister Israel Katz said he instructed the army to work on a proposal to “concentrate” Palestinians in Gaza in a so-called “humanitarian city” built on the ruins of Rafah. The plans, which would affect all 2.2 million people in Gaza, would include screening civilians to ensure that they are not members of Hamas. People would be unable to leave the area as it is secured by the Israeli army and managed by international organizations, he told reporters. here
· Israeli Cabinet approves plan to let more aid into northern Gaza over hardliner protests. Smotrich joins Ben Gvir in opposing expansion of UN-backed distribution, accuses IDF chief of failing to keep supplies out of Hamas’s hands. here
· Seeking bulldozer drivers to demolish Gaza: how a genocide is being outsourced. The systematic destruction of Gaza is hardly a secret. Now, the IDF is posting Facebook ads for bulldozer operators to help demolish the strip. here
· 'This War Had Crossed Every Moral, Security and Ethical Boundary.' The Gaza Refuseniks: In a rare act of dissent, five Israeli reserve soldiers speak out about why they refuse to fight in Gaza – and demand an end to Netanyahu's destructive war. 'I know the only goal of this war is the government's survival – at the cost of thousands of Gazan children, the hostages, the soldiers, and our collective safety.' here
US
· World-renowned economists have praised U.N. Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese’s recent report exposing how genocide are lucrative for financial institutions, Big Tech, and U.S. and European universities In response, the U.S.mission to the U.N. has renewed its call to the U.N. secretary-general to condemn Albanese and remove her as special rapporteur for human rights to the oPt. (Zeteo 7/7)
· A senior ICE official says the Trump administration used the shadowy, anti-Palestine website The Canary Mission to find students to target for deportation. (Mondoweiss 7/10)
· CUNY (City University of New York) suspended student activist leader Hadeeqa Arzoo Malik and fired four faculty members in escalation of repression against Palestine activism. (Mondoweiss 7/11)
· Mahmoud Khalil is seeking $20 million in damages from the Trump administration, alleging that he was falsely imprisoned. Khalil says he would use the funds to assist others targeted by Trump's crackdown. here
· As the political far right rises to power in the United States, protecting freedom of speech, academic freedom, and the right to dissent has never been more important. U.S. universities are advancing the far right’s authoritarian agenda by targeting students, faculty, and staff – such as Dr. Kil – who speak out and protest against genocide and in defense of Palestinian human rights. here
· Financial Times revealed that a Boston Consulting Group team helped model the costs of relocating Palestinians outside Gaza as part of a project examining how the shattered enclave could be rebuilt as a regional trading hub. BCG staff had also been more involved with the launch of the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation than the firm had publicly acknowledged. https://archive.is/LgBhB#selection-2195.0-2199.148
· US D-9 bulldozers worth billions of shekels arrive in Israel after Trump admininstration releases shipment. Over 100,000 tons of military equipment have arrived in Israel through 870 airlifts and 144 sea shipments since the start of the war.
LEBANON
· Israel Launches New Ground Incursion in Lebanon, Raising Fears for Truce. Israel has been conducting near-daily strikes against what it says are Hezbollah targets as the Iranian-backed group comes under pressure to disarm amid fears of a renewed war. here
INTERNATIONAL
· Several Global South states have come together to form the Hague Group—an initiative designed to challenge the wall of impunity surrounding the Israeli regime through coordinated legal and diplomatic action. Comprising eight countries—South Africa, Malaysia, Namibia, Colombia, Bolivia, Senegal, Honduras, and Cuba—the Hague Group is committed to advancing international law enforcement and upholding global obligations in defense of Palestinian rights. This policy memo examines how the Hague Group showcases the potential of coordinated state action to hold states accountable for violating international law, despite structural limitations in enforcement. here
· While the world rightly mourned the death of Portuguese Jota Diogo, the death of Palestinian national team player Muhammad al-Lilli – killed in an Israeli airstrike – went unnoticed – like hundreds of other athletes lost in Gaza. (Palestine Chronicle 7/4)
· Former EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell slammed “U.S. mercenaries” for the deaths of hundreds of starving Palestinians in Gaza (500 in one month), accusing the EU of being “unwilling” to take any actions against “these crimes.” (Palestine Chronicle 7/4)
· The British state has proscribed the organization Palestine Action. Under the British “Terrorism Act,” merely expressing verbal moral support for a proscribed organization may may be punished by up to 14 years in prison, while wearing a button or t-shirt for Palestine Action may be punished by up to six months of jail time. (Samidoun 7/5)
· Over the weekend U.K. police in the U.K. arrested more than two dozen protestors, including an 83-year-old retired priest, for opposing Israel’s genocide in Gaza and supporting the direct action group Palestine Action. Released on bail, the protestors could face up to 14 years in prison. (Zeteo 7/8)
· Spanish marine mechanic Sergio Toribio has filed a war crimes complaint against Israel, accusing its navy of carrying out a violent raid on the Gaza-bound aid ship Madleen in international waters. (Palestine Chronicle 7/5)
· European Union healthcare unions rallied outside the European Parliament demanding urgent EU action to stop Israeli’s assaults on Gaza’s medical facilities and personnel. (People’s Health Dispatch 7/7)
SOURCES
OCHAOPT, Palestine Chronicle, The Guardian, Samidoun, Zeteo, Democracy Now, People’s Health Dispatch, Mondoweiss, DAWN, Electronic Intifada, Haaretz, The Cradle, Times of Israel, Al Shabaka, The Lancet, British Medical Journal, The National News, New York Times, JVP, AROC, New Arab, Financial Times, the Jerusalem Post, European Journal of Trauma & Dissociation