Israel and the Occupied Territories: Key Facts and Figures (07 October 2023 – 31 October 2025)

• Engaged the parties to the armed conflict to remind them of their obligations under international humanitarian law (IHL), and in particular the law of occupation, the rules governing the conduct of hostilities, the respect and protection of civilians and civilian infrastructure, the prohibition of hostage-taking, the respect and protection of the medical mission, the civilian population’s access to essential services, the treatment and family rights of persons arrested and detained, and the dignified management of the dead.

• Monitored respect for IHL throughout Israel and the occupied territories, raising concerns with the parties to the conflict and providing concrete recommendations to prevent IHL violations and minimize human suffering, as part of the ICRC’s continuous bilateral and confidential dialogue.

• Made daily real-time interventions aimed at ensuring protection of civilians and the medical mission.

• Fostered increased understanding and support for IHL and for principled humanitarian action with national and international stakeholders and actors of influence.

• Monitored references and interpretations of IHL in international and national judicial proceedings.

• Facilitated the release, transfer, and return of 192 hostages from Gaza to their families as part of the ICRC’s neutral intermediary role.

• Facilitated the release, transfer, and return of 3,474 Palestinian detainees from Israeli places of detention to their families as part of the ICRC’s neutral intermediary role.

• Processed 18,666 requests from family members seeking news about loved ones with whom they had lost contact. 7,228 families have been informed of the fate and whereabouts of their loved ones.

• Distributed 1,200 items to first responders in Israel, including face masks, face shields, and personal effects collection bags, as well as 10 light towers and five trailers for search and rescue.

• Distributed over 321,000 items, including face masks, scrubs, boots, aprons, body tags, body bags, and rolls of shrouds to first responders in Gaza, such as PRCS, Civil Defence, Qiratan charitable organization, Ministry of Health and its forensics department, as well as the Ministry of Interior, and

• Ministry of Endowment (Awqaf). The ICRC also provided sanitizing material for health and safety, as well as documentation material for dignified management of the dead.

• Provided technical support to Israel’s National Centre of Forensic Medicine, including recommendations on forensic anthropology laboratory structuring to improve identification capacity in complex cases. The ICRC continued to work with the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) Mortuary Affairs DNA laboratory to strengthen their capacity for the management of complex cases of the missing and deceased in armed conflict, including an expert exchange with the ICRC’s genetics centre in Tbilisi, Georgia.

• Engaged with the Emergency Medical Services of both PRCS and the Civil Defence, health authorities, and other actors in Gaza to support management of the dead, particularly documentation and traceability, working towards better response and practices and preventing further cases of people becoming unaccounted for.

• Provided two information sessions on the basic frameworks around dignified management of the dead for the Civil Defence and Ministry of Health’s emergency management services in Gaza. The ICRC also held one roundtable with PRCS to discuss needs, training, and documentation of the deceased during recovery, and held four training sessions around search and recovery for Civil Defence and the Ministry of Interior’s forensic evidence department. One session on humanitarian forensics and one 3-day management of the dead in emergency situations training was held for the Ministry of Health’s forensic medicine department, and three information sessions on documentation was held with the PRCS.

• Supported forensic experts at Gaza’s Ministry of Health in the development of trainings and the documentation of unidentified deceased individuals at hospitals to improve future identification probability and developed standard operating procedures for first responders of both PRCS and Civil Defence.

• Supported Gaza’s Ministry of Health with basic maintenance and rehabilitation of Al-Aqsa morgue to ensure continuity of activities related to the management of the dead.

• Engaged with the Ministry of Waqf on best practices for cemetery management, and sharing guidance to ensure traceability and documentation of cemeteries. A cemetery expansion project in Khan Younis Turkish cemetery completed an additional 500 graves. Creation of graves in the frame of the ceasefire return of deceased was supported to ensure dignified burial of unidentified deceased Palestinians.

• Developed tools and workflows to collect and preserve data related to the management of the dead, to ensure future access, increase identification probabilities, and support possible future forensic recovery efforts.

• As part of its neutral intermediary role, the ICRC facilitated the return of 32 deceased hostages and 315 deceased Palestinians between the parties during the reporting period.

• Continued to call on relevant Israeli authorities to resume informing the ICRC of the whereabouts of thousands of Palestinians held in Israeli detention, and to allow for the resumption of ICRC visits and family contacts for these detainees.

• Interacted with over 1,414 released detainees – through group and individual interviews – to understand their treatment and conditions of detention, informing the ICRC’s engagement with relevant authorities.

• Continued to engage with Hamas, calling for the unconditional release of all the hostages presumed to be remaining in Gaza, and calling for their humane treatment, access to adequate health care, ability to re-establish contact with their families, and for the ICRC to have access to them.

• Visited 327 detainees in 19 places of detention in the occupied Palestinian territory, one in Gaza and 18 in the West Bank, to assess and monitor their treatment and conditions of detention.

In Gaza

• Provided basic assistance for over 163,000 vulnerable people (over 32,700 households), mostly families internally displaced by the ongoing hostilities.

• Assisted over 29,000 displaced households (over 146,000 individuals) to gain improved access to bread through supporting the construction and running of over 314 traditional clay ovens across 50 IDP shelters in Khan Younis, the middle area, and Gaza City. The ovens have produced over 37 million loaves of bread, with an average of 12.4 loaves per household daily. Additionally, the ICRC helped provide temporary employment for 3,611 workers engaged in the project, contributing to local income generation.

• Distributed essential household items, including blankets, jerrycans, tarpaulins, hygiene kits, clothing kits, and food containers to 2 million internally displaced persons (over 407,000 households) in non-UN shelters across Gaza, Khan Younis, and the Middle Area.

• Delivered high nutritional food bars to over 324,000 individuals, including children, pregnant women, and displaced persons. Provided “Plumpy Nut” nutritional support to over 22,000 individuals.

• Provided daily cooked meals to 124,000 people in Rafah, Khan Younis and the Middle Area, as part of the ICRC’s support to communal kitchens.

• Provided ready-to-eat food parcels to 35,300 people.

• Assisted 936 Palestinian detainees who were released from Israel and returned to Gaza, 342 of whom also received basic clothing.

• Significantly improved access to vital services for around 600 households in two shelters in Deir Al-Balah and Khan Younis by establishing a solar energy system which enables charging stations for cell phones and lights, powers sewing machines for clothing and shoe repairs, and operates barber shops.

• Reduced milling expenses for 1,400 households in Khan Younis, as part of a wheat mill project.

• Assisted over 1,000 pregnant women in their third trimester who also attended clinic follow-ups during the second trimester, and children under five who recovered from malnutrition in the previous month.

• Supported the preparation and provision of bread for the Red Cross field hospital, ensuring that around 300 people including staff, patients, and their caretakers receive bread on a daily basis.

• Established one seed bank; a total of 38 farmers have received cash transfers and technical training to enable them to produce local seeds, supported by two skilled workers.

In the West Bank

• Assisted 3,635 people (727 households) to increase their livestock production.

• Provided “cash for agriculture” support to 2,825 individuals (565 households).

• Provided 1,424 farmers with 49,992 ecological traps to protect their trees from the olive fruit fly, enabling them to increase the olive trees’ production.

• Provided vocational/internship training for 89 diploma students at the Palestine Polytechnic University in Hebron, provided assistance to 64 vulnerable households to start income-generating activities in H2 restricted area.

• Provided support to 1,196 vulnerable households to help them recover from the consequences of specific incidents of violence in the West Bank.

• Assisted 1,083 families whose houses were demolished in various locations in the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, to help them meet their immediate needs.

• Distributed humanitarian aid to 545 individuals (109 households) as part of the safety net programme.

• Provided Al-Quds University in Abu Dis, Jerusalem, with equipment to test food quality, which will be used by students studying food science.

• Supported livelihood initiatives to enhance economic resilience for shops in Jenin, Tubas, and Tulkarem governorates, as well as Nur Shams Camp, benefitting 770 individuals (154 households).

• Assisted 136 households from Bedouin communities in the Jordan Valley to help them meet their basic needs, protect their livestock.

• Provided assistance to 34 H2 Restricted residents whose lost their assets due to the ongoing armed conflict.

In Israel

• Supported one after-school program in Ofakim, southern Israel, to support education and emotional well-being initiatives for at-risk children.

• Provided outboard engines to eight households of fisherfolk (80 individuals).

In Gaza:

• Deployed two surgical teams, specialized in surgical management of the weapon-wounded, and various other specialists providing a holistic package of care in the European Gaza Hospital in Gaza.
• Performed 3,521 surgical procedures in the European Gaza Hospital, 91.6 per cent of which were general surgical interventions, 5.6 per cent were reconstructive surgery, and 2.8 per cent were orthopaedic surgery. 62.2 per cent of the patients were men and 37.8 per cent were women.
• Provided close post-operative care to over 3,669 patients and applied 5,126 dressings for patients with complex burns.
• Provided approximately 1,500 basic emotional support sessions in European Gaza Hospital to patients and families. Since March 2024, patients have received 110 individual sessions of “psychological support in emergency”. Patients’ families and caretakers have received 12 family psychosocial support sessions; and one psychosocial support activity was organized for children in the hospital.
• Provided 3,000 early physical rehabilitation sessions and 96 wheelchairs to patients at the European Gaza Hospital.
• Deployed a specialized ICRC team, including an emergency department doctor, to three hospitals (European Gaza Hospital, Indonesian Hospital, and the PRCS Al-Amal Hospital) to strengthen their capacity and improve their response to emergencies, mass casualties, and triage through technical support, on-job training, patients’ case management and peer support of the emergency department staff.
• Participated in the establishment of one national wound care protocol for the Ministry of Health to be adopted by all hospitals and primary health care centres across Gaza.
• Facilitated the medical transfer of 87 patients, as well as over 19 caretakers, from the Indonesian Hospital and Al-Awda Hospital to Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City.
• Conducted one basic emergency course, one training of trainers, and seven triage training sessions in the PRCS Al-Amal Hospital and European Gaza Hospital. 108 medical staff participated in the courses.
• Provided 198 field hospital beds to medical facilities, including the European Gaza Hospital, PRCS Al-Amal Hospital, Al-Aqsa Hospital, and Nasser Hospital; 40 mattresses have been provided to Naser and Al Aqsa hospitals in early October 2025.
• Provided 515 medical sets, including dressing kits and burn sets, 4,300 ampoules of medications, 14,000 item for dressings, 100,000 lab items, 2,500 infusion solutions, and 15,000 ampoules of pain relief and sedation, in addition to spare parts for biomedical equipment for Al Quds PRCS, Al Saraya PRCS field hospital, Al Ahli, Al Shifa, Nasser medical complex, Al Aqsa Hospital, Al Amal Hospital, UK MED, MSF France, MSF Spain, Heal Palestine Kuwaiti Field Hospital, and the MoH central lab at Nasser hospital.
• Provided 400 negative pressure wound treatment systems with dressing for MSF France and Belgium.
• Supported the following Gaza hospitals with medical and non-medical items: Indonesian, Al-Shifa, Al-Ahli, Al-Awda PRCS’ Al Saraya and Al-Helou hospitals in northern Gaza; and to PRCS’ Al-Amal, Nasser, European Gaza, UK - MED field, IMC field, Khan Yunis MSF-OCP, MSF-OCB, MSF-OCBA and Al-Aqsa hospitals in southern Gaza.
• Provided 100 advanced trauma emergency backpacks to medical facilities and providers, including European Gaza Hospital, PRCS Al-Amal Hospital, Nasser hospital, the Civil defence, the PRCS, and the Ministry of Health’s emergency medical services, as well as four first aid kits.
• Provided medical equipment related to pre-hospital and hospital care provision to Indonesian Hospital, Ministry of Health EMS, PRCS EMS, Civil Defence, European Gaza Hospital, Al-Ahli Hospital, Al-Aqsa Hospital and PRCS’ Al-Amal Hospital.
• Provided support for the Gaza Civil Defence to replace ambulance spare parts.
• Provided 85 medical sets, 61 Set dressing, 14 IHEK Basic &equipment, 10 dressing set instruments, medications & dressing items for Abushbak PHC, PRCS Fathi Araft, Jourit Ellout PHC, Alzawyda PHC, Abasan PHC, Magazi PHC, Nusriat PHC,AlDaraj PHC, PRCS AlSarya PHC, PRCS Alsahba PHC, PRCS ALSarya PHC, Alsabra PHC, BloodBank PHC, Save the Children DAB PHC, Save the Children Chalet Ataif PHC, Mawasi PHC MSF Spain, and Anera Gaza PHC. 10,000 Haemoglobinometer Microcuvettes were donated to UNRWA for its clinics.
• Provided essential support to four primary health care facilities across Gaza, which in turn provided medical consultations to some 1,2 million people, including routine vaccination to 66,657 children, prenatal services to 30,434 pregnant women, and the management of 111,205 patients with non-communicable diseases such as hypertension and diabetes.
• Supported Jouret Allout Primary Health Care Centre in Khan Younis, which participated in both emergency polio vaccination campaigns and provided polio vaccines to 4,700 children in the first phase and 20,805 children in the second phase.
• Provided four hospital examination beds for the emergency room in Al-Daraj Primary Health Care Center.
• Implemented a triage training in the emergency department at Al-Daraj Primary Health Care Center for 22 health staff members.
• Three rounds of polio vaccination campaigns were carried out in February 2025, reaching over 602,000 children, of which 75 per cent were from Deir Al-Balah, Khan Younis and Gaza governorates.
• Deployed three surgical teams, specialized in surgical management of the weapon-wounded, and various other specialists providing a holistic package of care in the Red Cross Field Hospital in Rafah. Since its opening, the Red Cross Field Hospital, operated in collaboration with partner National Societies of the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement, has provided over 186,000 consultations; over 5,200 patients were admitted; and the surgical teams have performed over 9,000 surgical procedures, 6.3 per cent of which were orthopaedic surgeries. There were over 2,300 weapon-wounded admissions. Almost 800 women had their childbirth facilitated at the field hospital.
• Responded to 86 mass-casualty incidents (MCI) with 3,735 patients received. 42 took place between late May and early October, as a result of which the Red Cross Field Hospital received 2,720 patients, 899 of which were triaged as “red” cases (life threatening critical condition) and 335 arrived dead.
• Provided 2,470 mental health and psychosocial support (MHPSS) sessions to patients and caregivers in the Red Cross Field Hospital between May 2024 and October 2025.
• Provided 16,371 physical rehabilitation sessions at the Red Cross Field Hospital.
• Provided training to ICRC MHPSS team on empathy building and offering emotional support to patients.
• Provided 8,869 MHPSS sessions (8,252 individual sessions & 617 awareness raising sessions) in Ministry of Health facilities (Deir Al-Balah, Jouret Allout, and Al-Zawayda primary health care centres) between October 2024 and October 2025.
• Provided two peer-support sessions for amputees to provide health awareness, psychoeducation and to focus on the different stages of rehabilitation at the Red Cross Field Hospital.
• Provided 26 mental health and psychosocial support capacity building sessions to 26 staff members of the Ministry of Health who are based in Deir Al-Balah and Jouret Allout primary health care centres on how to provide psychological support during emergencies.
• Provided 52 self-care sessions to 26 counsellors.
• Provided 249 MHPSS sessions (236 individual sessions and 13 awareness raising sessions) at the Physical Rehabilitation Center/Artificial Limbs and Polio Center (ALPC).
• Provided 11 mental health and psychosocial support capacity building sessions to were provided to the psychologists of the ALPC.
• Provided 2 self-care sessions to 29 ALPC staff (clinical and non-clinical staff).
• Provided 243 wheelchairs and 1,950 assistive devices of different types to the seven main Ministry of Health hospitals across the Gaza Strip.
• Re-contacted 105 children with club foot and followed up on their cases.
• Registered 2,112 beneficiaries for assistance as part of the physical rehabilitation programme.
• Launched the registration and documentation process for cases of amputation, spinal cord injuries, and brain injuries leading to limb paralysis (permanent disability) for individuals injured in the war since October 2023, in partnership with the Ministry of Health in Gaza. As a result, 5,000 individuals have registered in the online system, including 2,830 amputees, and a total of 1,863 cases have been clinically assessed.
• Provided pre-prosthetic rehabilitation services to 800 amputation cases in Gaza City & southern Gaza.
• Provided 400 wheelchairs for individuals with double amputations, paraplegia, quadriplegia, or hemiplegia in the ALPC and the PRCS Al-Amal Hospital.
• Supported the ALPC in Gaza City to resume partial operations in mid-July, serving around 3,800 people. The services included maintenance of prostheses and orthoses, pre-prosthetic rehabilitation, and the provision of prostheses, orthoses, wheelchairs, and other assistive devices.
• Delivered 500 wheelchairs, four physiotherapy sets, and 300 elastic bandages for pre-prosthetic in Raffah, Khan Yunis, Dir Albalah and Gaza.
• Supplied prosthetic materials to the ALPC in Gaza City and PRCS Workshop in Kan Yunis.
• Provided 10 sets of dressing materials for the outreach rehabilitation program at Beitna Community Development Organization in Al-Mawasi Khan Younis.
• In August 2025, the wheelchair and mobility aids workshop was reactivated in partnership with Palestinian Avenir Childhood Foundation – PACF, providing services for children under 18 years old. In mid-September, another workshop was launched in Deir Al Balah to facilitate access for children from the middle and southern areas, where 150 wheelchairs and mobility aids were distributed.
• In September 2025, an outpatient physiotherapy unit for amputee cases was established next to the ICRC Rafah Field Hospital to provide rehabilitation services and maintenance for prosthetic devices.
• In October 2025, the prosthetics workshop at PRCS Khan Younis was activated in collaboration with ICRC and the ALPC to serve the southern area.

In the West Bank:

• Made over 570 real-time interventions to facilitate access and safe passage for PRCS ambulances to provide medical care to people injured because of the violence in the West Bank.
• Provided three medical refrigerators and two digital air velocity metres and 160 laboratory reagents to the Ministry of Health for laboratory use.
• Provided 197 medical sets to the Ministry of Health.
• Provided two negative pressure wound healing machines to Jenin Hospital in the West Bank.
• Provided over 1,000 litres of intravenous fluids to emergency health facilities in the West Bank.
• Supported PRCS in the West Bank with 26 sets of medical items, 2,400 litres of fluids, and six prosthetic and orthopaedic items.
• Supported the Ministry of Health in the West Bank with 35 sets of medical items.
• Provided approximately 300 wheelchairs to the Patient’s Friends Society’s (Abu Raya Rehabilitation Center) in Ramallah.
• Delivered two training courses to 36 emergency room staff on current international best practice standards and skills in emergency trauma medicine to enhance patient care and outcomes.
• Donation of basic medical equipment, stationery and hygiene materials, furniture equipment to the two selected primary health centres (Ein Al Beyda and Hussan).
• Donation of one ultrasound machine to Al Muhtaseb Hospital in Hebron.

In Israel and the occupied Golan Heights:

• Supplied medical equipment to the Majdal Shams polyclinic in the occupied Golan Heights to strengthen their abilities to act as first responders and provide emergency care. Delivered one course on emergency management for trauma patients, to support the emergency staff
• Delivered two training workshops to support the staff of the Association of Rape Crisis Centres in Israel on providing mental health and psychosocial support for victims of sexual violence in armed conflict.
• Supported the technological upgrade of an MHPSS clinic in Kiryat Shmona in northern Israel.
   

In Gaza:

• Helped over 1,500,000 people in and around Gaza City, Deir Al-Balah, Beit Lahia, Khan Younis, and Rafah maintain and regain access to clean water by supporting local service providers to operate and repair critical water and wastewater facilities and networks and carry out water trucking across the Gaza Strip. 
   

• Supported 51,000 internally displaced persons in accessing clean water and sanitation facilities in 35 shelters across Gaza by carrying out emergency repairs on water supply systems and sanitation infrastructure.
   

• Supported the provision of drinking water to 30,000 internally displaced persons per day by purchasing and supporting the installation of 12 desalination units across Gaza: four in Gaza City, one in Jabalia, five in Khan Younis and two in Deir Al Balah. 
   

• Helped 95,000 internally displaced persons in the Middle Area of the Gaza Strip access clean water by supporting repair works at the seawater desalination plant, enabling the plant to resume operations and double its production to 1,400 m³/day. 
   

• Equipped three structures of the local electricity supplier in Gaza (GEDCo) with solar systems to ensure minimum operational continuity of services. 
   

• Provided financial support and supplies from the ICRC’s contingency stocks to enable GEDCo to carry out emergency repairs to the power network, protect critical infrastructure, and prepare for rehabilitation as soon as security conditions allow.
   

• Rented four water wells in Al-Mawasi, Khan Younis, supplying it with an average of 2,000 m³/day, and benefiting around 600,000 people. 
   

• Carried out repairs at the water network of Gaza City downstream of the Mekorot line, securing access to water for 6,000 people in northern Wadi Gaza. 
   

• Completed the maintenance of generators at essential water and waste-water treatment facilities in Rafah City, enabling these facilities to continue operating and deliver sanitation services that reduce the risk of communicable diseases for over 1,400,000  people living in Rafah.
   

• Delivered 14,800 litres of oil into Gaza for the maintenance of generators at essential water and wastewater facilities.
   

• Delivered one sewage suction truck into Gaza for the desludging and transportation of sewage to disposal areas. 
   

• Improved wastewater services for 150,000 people in Gaza City by repairing and reactivating Al-Samer Pumping Station.
   

• Improved drainage capacity of Gaza's rainwater outfalls by performing necessary maintenance works and repairs, benefitting 300,000 people in Gaza City.
   

• Delivered ten water trucks, eight  mobile wastewater pumps, six trucks of pipes and fittings, 470 water tanks, and 140 tapstands to support the distribution of water across Gaza.
   

• Supported emergency power supply and fuel rationing for 14 hospitals across Gaza through existing ICRC projects for the maintenance, optimization, and resilience of the public health sector’s generator fleet.
   

• Supported the installation of reverse osmosis units in six hospitals and clinics in Gaza: Al-Aqsa, Nasser, Najjar and European Gaza hospitals; the Emirati Maternity Hospital in Tal Sultan; and Shuhada clinic, allowing 1,000 kidney dialysis patients and 75,000 internally displaced persons seeking shelter in these hospitals to access clean water.   
   

• Provided generator spare parts, oil and fuel filters to Kamal Adwan Hospital and Indonesian Hospital, northern Wadi Gaza. 
   

• Delivered 9,000 litres of oil, spare parts, and electrical items into Gaza for the maintenance of generators at hospitals in southern Wadi Gaza.
   

• Built 3,935 family latrines in Al-Mawasi, southern Gaza Strip, providing better access to sanitation for 39,350 internally displaced persons living in tents.
   

• Constructed six counselling spaces for Mental Health and Psychosocial Support sessions at Deir Al-Balah Primary Healthcare Center.
   

• Rehabilitated Al-Zawayda Primary Health Care Center in Deir Al-Balah.
   

• Built 400 blocks of communal latrines in Deir Al-Balah, Nuseirat and Al-Mawasi Khan Younis, providing better access to sanitation for 40,000 internally displaced persons living in tents.
   

• Supported emergency water and power supply for the European Gaza Hospital, including through the delivery of two water pumps, 250 meters of water pipes, over 1,500 meters of cables to connect the hospital to water boreholes, supply of electrical and plumbing maintenance material and repair of a borehole to ensure its water supply. 
   

• Supplied and installed dosing pumps for 20 water wells in northern Wadi Gaza to disinfect the water for around 100,000 people.

In the West Bank:

• Supported the Palestinian Water Authority in the West Bank to enable 6,000 people in Qariout village; 13,000 people in Burin village; 8,100 people in Awarta and Duma villages; 2,000 people in Sinjel, Deir Jrir, Al-Mughayyer, Burqa and Al-Mazraa Al-Qibliyeh villages; 1,600 people in Iraq Burin village; and 1,000 people in Joret Al-Kheil to have improved access to water.
   

• Supported the village councils in southern Nablus by providing 6,300 meters of pipelines to enable 7,000 people living in Madama, Ourif and Asira Al-Qibliyeh villages to have access to water services, in addition to 5,000 meters of water pipes for Khalayel Al-Louz community in Hebron, benefiting 350 people.
   

• Supported 54 farmers in Faroun village in the seam zone area to have improved access to irrigation water to cultivate over 400 dunums of land. 
   

• Installed a solar pumping system for irrigation in Ein Al-Beida community, benefiting 773 people.
   

• Provided technical and material support to Ein Al-Beida Village Council in the Jordan Valley to enhance access to electricity for 1,750 farmers in the area, in addition to transformers and electrical connections for Immatin village in Salfit that benefitted 4,500 people.
   

• Assisted 5,000 people in H2 restricted area in Hebron to have access to enhanced wastewater and drainage systems by providing technical and material support to Hebron Municipality in the West Bank.
   

• Supported 140 households in H2 restricted area in Hebron and 630 people in Kissan in Bethlehem with solar panels to enhance their access to electricity.  
   

• Provided 25 water tanks, 25 tap stands, and 4,000 meters of pipes for emergency repairs in Tulkarem, northern West Bank. In addition to 220 people in Fawwar Camp through repairing the damaged water line. 
   

• Supported 600 households in H2 restricted area with water tanks to increase their water storage capacity. 
   

• Supported Jenin Municipality in the emergency response for damaged wastewater network by supplying 2,750 meters of pipes and needed manholes to carry out repairs within Jenin City and enhance the wastewater services.     

• Constructed a transmission bypass line in Jenin, benefitting 18,500 people.

• Constructed water transmission line in Qariout Nablus, benefitting over 24,500 people.

Together with the PRCS, the ICRC helped raise awareness among civilians as well as humanitarian, medical, and other frontline workers in Gaza on the risks of weapon contamination and explosive remnants of war.

• Distributed awareness messages through SMS to 1.2 million phone numbers.

• Distributed 8,000 awareness colouring books, 20,000 posters, and 100 backpacks with training materials.

• Promoted safer behaviour among 91,400 civilians through face-to-face sessions and 2,410 group sessions for reachable affected populations in hospitals, schools, and shelters.

• Conducted eight train the trainer sessions for 138 PRCS volunteers from Rafah, Khan Younis, Middle Area and Gaza City to expand weapon contamination awareness across Gaza.

• Carried out four safety training sessions for 100 municipal workers from Khan Younis and the Middle Area, enabling them to operate safely and perform their duties with improved awareness of weapon contamination risks and weapon recognition skills. Training was conducted to another 28 municipal workers from Khan Younis to recognize, mark and report remnants of war to ensure safer return for civilians to newly accessible neighbourhoods.

• Completed 16 mural projects in North Gaza Governorate, Gaza City, Deir Al-Balah, and Khan Younis depicting risk awareness and safer behaviour messages to promote community safety.

• Provided 15 first aid trauma bags to the Civil Defence, alongside critical items such as personal protective equipment, needed for their operations, including rescue missions.

• Provided 2 donations to the explosive ordinance disposal (EOD) teams, (Gaza City and the north, and Rafah and the south).

• Delivered multidisciplinary trainings to the emergency medical services in northern Gaza, Rafah, and Khan Younis to increase their capacity in implementing emergency response in highly contaminated contexts including 4 training sessions for municipality workers; 3 training sessions on weapon contamination and forensics for civil defence and EOD police; etc.

• Delivered two safety training sessions for 30 GEDCo employees from Khan Younis and the Middle Area, allowing them to operate safely and fulfil their tasks with a better understanding of weapon contamination dangers and weapon recognition abilities.

• Delivered four multidisciplinary training to the Civil Defence in Rafah and Khan Younis to increase their capacity in implementing emergency response in highly contaminated contexts.

• Delivered safety training to 25 EOD police members to support their live-saving work in removing explosive hazards from residential buildings, streets, and critical infrastructure, along with the provision of critical working tools for their operations.

• Established a cash-for-work project on recognition, risk mitigation, safe marking techniques of unexploded ordinance.

• Received over 224,000 requests from people in Gaza, the West Bank and Israel, raising protection concerns for ICRC follow-up.

• Established two hotlines – providing services in Arabic, Hebrew, and English – for people looking to re-establish contact with, or ascertain the fate and whereabouts of, their family members.

• Reinforced the ICRC’s existing Community Contact Centre (CCC) in Gaza and established two additional centres to serve people affected by the conflict and violence in Israel and the West Bank.

• Received over 133,000 calls and visits from people in Israel, Gaza, and the West Bank, who raised concerns about losing contact with loved ones, sought support to evacuate people who are injured or trapped in the hostilities, or requested assistance (e.g., food, non-food, water, electricity).

• Continued working closely with local communities and service providers to involve them in the ICRC’s needs assessments and its program design, delivery, and evaluation.

• Engaged with over 50 non-governmental organizations, communities, and regional and local authorities to assess the urgent needs of affected population in Israel.