In Lebanon, Palestine Refugees rely heavily on UNRWA services, as they have no access to the country's public health system. The Agency provides these services in its 27 primary healthcare centres, as well as by giving subsidies for hospital coverage, and offering access to basic and life-saving medications and treatments.
Since the Israeli Forces launched operation "Iron Wall" in January 2025 in the northern West Bank, and the subsequent displacement of over 45,000 people from Jenin, Tulkarm, and Nur Shams refugee camps, more than 8,100 Palestinian families there are facing a harsh reality, one that is unprecedented since 1967.
UNRWA teams on the ground are working to meet the needs of those displaced, under the ever-shrinking humanitarian space in the West Bank. The Israeli anti-UNRWA laws which came into effect on 30 January 2025 have created a vacuum of international protective presence when it is most needed.
UNRWA refutes in the strongest terms the allegation that its facilities in the West Bank constitute ‘terror hubs’, an assertion made today by a spokesperson for the Israeli Defense Forces in relation to the Jenin Camp Health Centre.
In less than three weeks, eight newborns reportedly died in the Gaza Strip from hypothermia because of the cold winter weather, lack of shelter and winter supplies.
Several UNRWA schools have been impacted by conflict-related incidents over the reporting period. In an Israeli Forces strike on an UNRWA school-turned-shelter in Khan Younis, at least 13 people have been reportedly killed and 48 injured.
