Today's top news: Occupied Palestinian Territory, Burkina Faso

People search for water in Khan Younis city in the southern the Gaza Strip. Photo: UNICEF/Iyad El Baba.

Occupied Palestinian Territory

Humanitarian partners are reporting new displacement from areas east of Gaza city. Yesterday, the Israeli military ordered people living in 28 residential blocks in areas east of Gaza city to immediately evacuate. Humanitarian partners estimate at least 60,000 people were displaced from this area, which spans over seven square kilometres.

Also yesterday, a military operation in the area of al-Mawasi resulted in scores of casualties arriving to a nearby field hospital and the displacement of at least 5,000 people, according to our partners on the ground.

Meanwhile, access constraints – coupled with insecurity and ongoing hostilities – continue to significantly impede the delivery of essential humanitarian assistance and services across Gaza. This includes critical food and nutrition aid, medical care, shelter support, and water, sanitation, and hygiene services for hundreds of thousands of people in need.

OCHA reports that as of yesterday, Israeli authorities had facilitated less than half of more than 100 planned humanitarian assistance missions, coordinated to reach northern Gaza this month. The rest were either impeded, denied access, or canceled due to logistical, operational or security reasons.

Burkina Faso

Burkina Faso faces an unprecedented humanitarian crisis with 6.3 million people in need of humanitarian support and protection.

The UN and humanitarian partners are doing everything we can to support the Government's efforts to meet people’s immediate needs and, crucially, to help crisis-affected people get back on their feet.

We welcome the participation of Burkina Faso's Minister of Humanitarian Action, Nandy Somé-Diallo, this week at the annual ECOSOC meeting on the Transition from Relief to Development. She outlined key efforts by the Government to provide life-saving relief and promote resilience.

Working through the Humanitarian Response Plan, aid organizations have so far assisted more than 730,000 people across Burkina Faso this year.

While this is a good start, this represents just 19 per cent of the 3.8 million people we are aiming to assist.

Nearly halfway into the year, the US$935 million Humanitarian Response Plan for 2024 is currently 17 per cent funded at $157 million.