Overview
- In a Guardian op-ed, Commissioner-General Philippe Lazzarini called for a UN-mandated international stabilisation force to maintain calm, protect infrastructure and guarantee humanitarian access.
- UN updates report roughly 100 UNRWA shelters hosting more than 75,000 people and a catch-up immunisation drive for about 44,000 children under three.
- UN officials say aid scale-up is constrained by red tape, bans on partners, too few crossings and insecurity, with only two of eight movement requests fully facilitated on Sunday.
- WHO supported the rehabilitation of Al Kheir Hospital in Khan Younis and opened a 20-bed nutrition stabilization center, as partners delivered nearly 40,000 winter kits, about 50,000 blankets and trucked water across 2,000 locations.
- The ICJ recently reaffirmed UNRWA’s impartiality, even as Israeli allegations, a Colonna review citing neutrality issues and a USAID obstruction claim continue to fuel political scrutiny.