Gaza Humanitarian Access Snapshot #8

GAZA, PALESTINE — Humanity & Inclusion, and other organizations provide an update on the situation in Gaza from November 13 to December 10, 2024, releasing the Gaza Humanitarian Snapshot #8

As of December 3, 2024, Israel’s offensive in Gaza has killed 44,786 Palestinians and injured more than 106,000, while more than 10,000 are reported missing and likely buried under the rubble. Approximately 80% of Gaza's territory remains under forced displacement orders by Israeli forces, with 1.9 million people, or 90% of the total population, having been internally displaced multiple times during the past year.

Joyce Msuya, the acting UN Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs, told the UN Security Council in November, “Palestinians in Gaza are facing the combined effects of a lack of critical resources, collapse of public order, and worsening weather conditions. Without adequate humanitarian assistance, Gaza has become unfit for human survival.”

In November, an average of only 65 humanitarian trucks entered Gaza per day, well below the 500 truckloads per working day allowed before October 7, 2023, which were already insufficient to meet the population's needs. During the same period, commercial supplies came to a near halt.

Umm Khaled, Community Member, Female, 28, Deir al Balah states,

“I walked for hours looking for food for my children. The lack of food and clean water is unbearable. We need help immediately before it’s too late.”

According to the latest projection of the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC), 91% of Gaza’s population (1.95 million) faces high levels of acute food insecurity classified as IPC Phase 3 (Crisis) or above, of which 876,000 people (41%) are in Emergency (IPC Phase 4) and 345,000 (16%) are in Catastrophe (IPC Phase 5). In an urgent alert issued on November 8, the IPC warned that there is a strong likelihood that famine is already occurring in North Gaza.

Attacks on aid workers have continued:

• On November 30 alone, three separate Israeli airstrikes killed a Palestinian soup kitchen chef feeding hundreds of families in the besieged Beit Lahia, one Save the Children staff member, and three staff from World Central Kitchen, pushing the latter to pause its operations altogether. The total confirmed death toll among humanitarian workers since October 7, 2023, now stands at 343.

• Nine staff from reporting organizations and their partners were killed over this reporting period, including six from Juzoor.

• An off-duty Save the Children staff member was killed as he was returning home to his wife and three-year-old daughter from the mosque.

• Two staff of Palestinian organizations, Culture and Free Thought Association and Fajer Youth, were killed within the so-called “humanitarian” zone.

• Eleven of TdH’s partner’s staff members, who live in the Jabalia camps, were forcibly displaced in response to Israeli military orders. A paramedic was arrested, while one of the gynecologists remains besieged at Kamal Adwan Hospital.

• As a result of Israeli military assaults, TdH Italy’s partner lost three clinics in North Gaza, including one that had recently been re-established in the Jabalia camp. Their storage for mobile teams, which contained medications, disposables, and vehicles, was also destroyed. Save the Children was forced to redirect 5,000 food parcels previously destined for North Gaza to Deir al-Balah.