Continued attacks on refugee camps have led to the displacement of >190,000 from Khan Younis & Deir al Balah. Despite the increasing need, humanitarian aid entering Gaza has decreased 56% since April. Polio has been detected in the sewage system and more than 100,000 cases of acute jaundice have been reported.

Attacks on IDP shelters in tent camps & schools, & their supportive infrastructure, have led to a horrific increase in casualties. Poliovirus (VDPV) type 2 has been found in environmental surveillance samples collected from Khan Younis & Deir al Balah. 

Gaza City: tens of thousands were ordered to evacuate on 7/7-8, and more again on 7/10. ~90% of the Gazan population are now Internally Displaced by Israeli military action.

Ninety percent of the Gazan population are now Internally Displaced by Israeli military action, (displaced up to 10 times) & 110,000 are refugees in Egypt.

In Gaza City, 6/27: 60-80,000 people were displaced from Gaza City & 5,000 more were driven from Rafah overnight. About 78% of the Gaza Strip has been placed under evacuation orders by Israeli military.

Israeli army said it will observe a limited daily “tactical pause” along one of the main roads in Gaza to allow delivery of increased quantities of humanitarian aid, as UN agencies have suspended deliveries from a US-built pier. Israeli military added that pause should not be seen as a “cessation of hostilities in the southern Gaza Strip.”

UN: both Hamas and Israel have committed war crimes. UN Commission of Inquiry (COI) report covers the period from 10/7 to 10/31, findings based on interviews with victims & witnesses, hundreds of submissions, satellite imagery, medical reports & verified open-source information.

Ground fighting continues, particularly in Rafah. Airstrikes have been especially intense in central Gaza, particularly in Al Bureij, Al Maghazi, & Nuseirat refugee camps & eastern Deir Al Balah. The levels of public health disaster are catastrophic.

Ground incursions & heavy fighting continue to be reported, particularly in Rafah. Intensified hostilities following the issuance of evacuation orders & the Israeli military operation in Rafah have so far forced the displacement of about one million people, amid a decline in the entry of humanitarian aid.

Israeli bombardment from air, land, & sea continues to be reported across much of Gaza, resulting in further civilian casualties, displacement, & destruction of houses & other civilian infrastructure. Ground incursions & heavy fighting also continue to be reported, especially in Jabalya as well as eastern & central Rafah.

Israeli bombardment from the air, land, & sea continues to be reported across much of the Gaza Strip, resulting in further civilian casualties, displacement, & destruction of houses & other civilian infrastructure. Ground incursions & heavy fighting also continue to be reported, especially in Jabalya & eastern Rafah. Rafah Crossing remains closed. Kerem Shalom Crossing is barely operational if at all.

This week has been increasingly horrific as Israeli troops moved into Rafah and up to 300,000 Palestinians fled (again). Humanitarian aid has stopped with the closure of the Rafah and Kerem Shalom crossings. There is continued obstruction to aid, more evidence for widespread starvation.

This week has seen more hopeful up and down negotiations for a cease-fire and continued horrific deaths & injuries in Gaza with evidence of a imminent ground invasion of Rafah. While more humanitarian aid is getting in, there is continued obstruction to adequate aid, more evidence for widespread starvation. Nonviolent campus protests are spreading with repeated aggressive police responses.

This week saw the discovery of mass graves at destroyed hospitals, and continued obstruction in aid to starving Gazans. We also witnessed the Iranian attack on Israel & the Israeli attack on Iran. Suppression of speech on Palestine continues in both Israel & the US. Positive signs are the explosion of campus protests in the US & the growing documentation of the genocide.

As the Israeli government threatens an all out assault on Rafah, increasing the risk of further massacres & genocide, starvation is rising, multiple countries move to defund & destroy UNRWA, & Iran launched an attack on Israel threatening a regional war, this is a time to make your voices heard.

As the Israeli government threatens an all out assault on Rafah, increasing the risk of further massacres & genocide, starvation is rising & multiple countries move to defund & destroy UNRWA, this is a time to make your voices heard. The killing of aid workers has helped focus world attention on the humanitarian catastrophe.

Intense Israeli bombardment & ground operations as well as heavy fighting between Israeli forces & Palestinian armed groups continue to be reported across much of the Gaza Strip, resulting in further civilian casualties, displacement, & destruction of houses & other civilian infrastructure, in particular, health care facilities.

Intense Israeli bombardment & ground operations as well as heavy fighting between Israeli forces & Palestinian armed groups continued to be reported across much of Gaza, particularly in southeastern Gaza City & areas surrounding Al Shifa Hospital. This has resulted in further civilian casualties, displacement, & destruction of houses & other civilian infrastructure.

Israeli bombings and killings continue as well as widespread Palestinian resistance and flailing cease-fire talks. The accusation of sexual violence by Hamas is a serious charge that must be meticulously investigated, but the propaganda wars persist. This is important review: Here’s what Pramila Patten’s UN report on Oct 7 sexual violence actually said: