11 September 2025
UN Spokesperson Stéphane
Dujarric said
people are once again on the move after Israel placed the
entire city under displacement orders. Aid partners recorded
more than 25,000 displacements between Sunday through
Wednesday.
Some critical services have already been
suspended while some humanitarian facilities have suffered
severe damage, disrupting operations and the delivery of
essential services.
Aid partners suspend
activities
“Our partners working on health, report
that some of them have had to suspend activities at primary
healthcare centres, while partners working on nutrition say
that 12 out of 49 outpatient therapeutic sites have halted
services amid the ongoing airstrikes in Gaza City,” he
said,
At least two community kitchens have also
suspended operations, and three others have had to relocate
within the city.
Furthermore, UN partners working on
education are concerned that 95 temporary learning sites in
northern Gaza serving about 25,000 children may be at
imminent risk of closure due to displacement orders and
ongoing insecurity.
Child malnutrition
worsens
UN child rights agency UNICEF has also warned
that child malnutrition in the Gaza Strip continues to
worsen at an alarming rate.
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The percentage of children
identified as acutely malnourished increased to 13.5 per
cent in August, from 8.3 per cent in July – or 12,800 boys
and girls.
Mr. Dujarric said UNICEF has been working
to scale up the entry of essential nutrition supplies and
distribute them, alongside nutrition partners, at about 140
sites across the Gaza Strip.
“While stocks of
ready-to-use therapeutic food have recently increased, the
current quantities of other critical nutrition supplies for
infants and pregnant and breastfeeding women are wholly
insufficient,” he said.
Meanwhile, almost half of
all functioning hospitals are located in Gaza City,
including half of all intensive care unit beds for the
entire Gaza Strip, according to the World Health
Organization (WHO).
With the
Israeli offensive already underway, the Gaza Strip cannot
afford to lose any of these remaining facilities, the UN
agency said.
Impediments to aid delivery
continue
These developments are happening as delays
and impediments to humanitarian movements inside Gaza
continue.
Missions still take long hours to complete,
even when they are approved in advance by the Israeli
authorities, meaning that teams have no choice but to wait
on roads that are often dangerous or
congested.
Additionally, the UN Office for the
Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) has recently
observed an increase in denials of the participation of
Palestinian staff in missions, including both drivers and
personnel.
Mr. Dujarric noted that denials are often
communicated at the last minute, resulting in operational
delays as alternatives must be quickly
identified.
“What we need is full facilitation of
the work and movement of humanitarian actors into and
throughout the Gaza Strip. This must include unimpeded
access to the north and to the south alike,” he said,
adding that “every delay can cost
lives.”
