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23 April 2026<\/p>\n
OCHA says that continued reports of strikes, shelling and gunfire\u00a0in residential areas in Gaza are increasing\u00a0concerns\u00a0for\u00a0the safety of\u00a0civilians.<\/p>\n
Yesterday,\u00a0humanitarian partners received reports of children killed in North Gaza when a tent was hit in a strike.<\/p>\n
OCHA reiterates that, under international humanitarian law, civilians and civilian infrastructure must be protected.<\/p>\n
On\u202ffood\u202fsecurity, the UN and partners continue to distribute meals, bread and other supplies, including in areas that are hard to reach. As of Monday, partners were serving\u202fabout 1.1 million meals and producing about 230 metric tons of bread every day. This is achieved in collaboration with more than 120 kitchens, commercial bakeries and community ovens. Still, the World Food Programme reports<\/a>\u00a0that every fifth family in Gaza\u00a0eats just one meal every day.<\/p>\n Turning to the West Bank, the UN continues to receive reports of settler-related attacks causing Palestinian casualties, material damage and displacement.<\/p>\n Recent attacks have particularly affected education facilities: On Tuesday, a school in Ramallah area came under fire by Israeli settlers and one child was reportedly killed. Earlier in the day, settlers demolished a school serving some 60 girls and boys in the Jordan Valley. In the Hebron area, settlers have recently obstructed the access of a similar number of students for about ten days already. Humanitarian partners are providing psychosocial support for the girls and boys affected.<\/p>\n Education partners\u00a0warn\u00a0that\u00a0children\u00a0in the West Bank\u00a0are seeing more violence in and around their schools. This puts them at\u00a0risk\u00a0and makes\u00a0it harder for them to continue learning.\u00a0The UN underscores\u00a0the urgent need to protect and restore\u00a0every child\u2019s access to\u00a0education.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" 23 April 2026 OCHA says that continued reports of strikes, shelling and gunfire\u00a0in residential areas in Gaza are increasing\u00a0concerns\u00a0for\u00a0the safety of\u00a0civilians. Yesterday,\u00a0humanitarian partners received reports of children killed in North Gaza when a tent was hit in a strike. OCHA reiterates that, under international humanitarian law, civilians and civilian infrastructure must be protected. On\u202ffood\u202fsecurity, […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":299,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"country":[],"document-category":[2477],"document-source":[2169],"committee-meeting":[],"document-subject":[2517,2033,2441,2057,2005,5200,2309,6845,6866],"entity":[1729],"document-language":[6542],"class_list":["post-317751","document","type-document","status-publish","hentry","document-category-news-item","document-source-office-for-the-coordination-of-humanitarian-affairs-ocha","document-subject-access-and-movement","document-subject-children","document-subject-education-and-culture","document-subject-food","document-subject-gaza-strip","document-subject-humanitarian-relief","document-subject-protection","document-subject-protection-of-civilians","document-subject-settler-violence","entity-united-nations-system","document-language-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document\/317751","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/document"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/299"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document\/317751\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":317754,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document\/317751\/revisions\/317754"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=317751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"country","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/country?post=317751"},{"taxonomy":"document-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-category?post=317751"},{"taxonomy":"document-source","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-source?post=317751"},{"taxonomy":"committee-meeting","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/committee-meeting?post=317751"},{"taxonomy":"document-subject","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-subject?post=317751"},{"taxonomy":"entity","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/entity?post=317751"},{"taxonomy":"document-language","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-language?post=317751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}