Israel/Hamas War Situation Report #84
- Emergency Manager's Weekly Report
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Military and Diplomatic Highlights:
· The Israeli military remains deployed in over 50% of the Gaza Strip beyond the “Yellow Line” where access to humanitarian facilities and assets, public infrastructure, and agricultural land is either restricted or prohibited.
· Between January 1-28, only one Israel Defense Forces (IDF) solider died as a result of wounds sustained on October 19, 2025. Since October 2023, a total of 471 IDF soldiers have been killed and 2,995 wounded.
· The IDF has reported several ceasefire violations in Gaza between January 17-29.
· The IDF have eliminated the following terrorist leaders:
o In western Rafah on January 17th the following Hamas and Islamic Jihad leaders were killed:
ü Muhammad Hamed Muhammad Khuli, Commander of Hamas’ Central Camps Operations Department.
ü Ashraf Adnan Muhammad al-Khatib, Commander of the Islamic Jihad’s Rocket and Missile Array in the Central Camps area.
ü Saeed Khaled Ali Abd al-Rahman, Head of Sniping in Hamas’s Deir al Balah Battalion in the Central Camps Brigade.
o Muhammad Awasha, a key Hezbollah weapons smuggler was killed on January 21st near the area of Sidon.
o On January 25th Muhammad al-Husseini, Hezbollah’s Head of Artillery in the Arzoun and Jawad Basma was killed.
o Ali Nour El-Din, the head of an artillery squad in Hezbollah was killed in the area of Tyre in southern Lebanon on January 26th.
Humanitarian Assistance Highlights:
Gaza Strip
· Between January 1-26, about 37,000 metric tons (MT) of humanitarian aid were collected by the UN and its partners from Gaza’s crossings, compared with more than 62,300 MT of aid collected in December. Most of the aid (75%) continued to be collected from the Kerem Shalom Crossing.
· Between January 13- 26, 95 humanitarian missions were coordinated with the Israeli authorities:
o 60 were successfully facilitated
o 10 were impeded
o 13 were denied
o 12 were cancelled by the requesting organizations due to operational, logistical or security reasons.
· Displacement and Sheltering Update:
o For the third consecutive year, Gaza’s population is facing winter amid widespread displacement, substandard shelter conditions, and overcrowded displacement sites.
o A total of 81% of structures in Gaza have been damaged as of October 11, 2025, hundreds of thousands of Palestinians remain displaced while housing, land and property rights remain severely compromised by widespread documentation loss and legal barriers.
o As of January 26, some 1.3 million people are estimated to be living at 970 displacement sites across Gaza, including 598 makeshift sites and 76 collective centers.
o More than 100,000 tents have entered Gaza since October 2025, through bilateral donations and UN coordination, benefiting over 560,000 people. However, winter conditions are accelerating the deterioration of tents, increasing replacement needs and reinforcing reliance on repeated tent distributions.
o Since the beginning of 2026, due to limited stocks of tents and tarpaulins, Shelter partners are reaching about 20,000 households per week, primarily with non-food items, including clothing, kitchen kits and mattresses.
o The Shelter Cluster reiterates the urgent need to accelerate durable transitional shelter solutions that limit dependency on tents and help address the enormous needs in Gaza.
· Healthcare and Public Health Updates:
o The second round of a routine immunization catch-up campaign, led by the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF), the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA), the World Health Organization (WHO) and the Palestine Red Crescent Society (PRCS) and partners was launched on January 18:
ü This campaign targeted children under three to strengthen protection against vaccine-preventable diseases.
ü Vaccinations were delivered by 170 teams at 129 health facilities, with seven mobile teams reaching hard-to-reach areas.
ü As of January 27, about 13,000 children had been vaccinated out of around 18,000 targeted.
ü The first round in November 2025 reached over 14,000 children, and a third round is planned for April 2026 to complete the full schedule and reach a total of 44,000 children.
o Health Cluster partners since the ceasefire have supported the establishment or restoration of services at 16 health service points, of which 13 are in Gaza city:
ü This included the Al Rantisi Hospital that had been out of service since September 2025.
ü Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) reported that, following debris clearance and rehabilitation of the emergency department at Al Rantisi, the facility is now treating more than 300 children daily, while another new MSF-supported clinic in Az Zaytoun receives nearly 300 patients per day, many requiring wound care and follow-up amid inadequate shelter conditions that increase the risk of infection.
ü PRCS, with support from the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), upgraded the Emergency Department at Al Amal Hospital in Khan Younis, adding beds, expanding capacity, and establishing a new triage area.
ü At PRCS-operated Al Quds Hospital, pacemaker implantation resumed, alongside cardiac and peripheral catheterization services that restarted in late August 2025.
ü The health system remains severely constrained, with 60% of health service points still non-functional, compared with 65% prior to the October 2025 ceasefire.
o As of January 28th, approximately 31 Emergency Medical Teams (EMTs) are deployed in Gaza, delivering medical consultations and emergency surgeries, alongside trauma and non-communicable disease care.
o WHO continues to support the medical evacuation of patients from Gaza to Jordan:
ü WHO reported on January 12th that 18 patients and 36 companions were evacuated to receive trauma, cancer, gastrointestinal, renal, immunological, and other serious conditions treatment.
ü 21 Patients and 36 companions were evacuated on January 19th to receive medical treatment.
ü On January 29th, 24 patients and 36 companions were evacuated.
· Food Security Update:
o Between January 1-25, the Food Security Sector partners reached about 1.2 million people through household-level general food assistance delivered via 52 distribution points across the Strip, with each family receiving a full ration consisting of wheat flour and food boxes.
o More than 100,000 children under five are projected to face acute malnutrition and require long-term care in 2026, since the ceasefire.
o UNICEF has supported the establishment of 72 new nutrition facilities, bringing the total to 196 across the Strip.
o The nutrition response faces significant operational risks:
ü 11 Nutrition Cluster partners at risk of deregistration conducted approximately 25% of malnutrition screenings in 2025 and provided a large share of treatment for severe malnutrition, as well as support for stabilization centers, blanket feeding, and infant formula.
o The World Food Programme (WFP) is continuing to scale up market-based solutions in Gaza:
ü In-kind food assistance will be adjusted in line with the expansion of cash-based assistance, market capacity, and the availability of stocks.
ü As a result, from January, a substantial portion of the beneficiaries will start to receive monthly digital transfers via e-wallets and transition off in-kind general food assistance in February.
ü This approach is intended to support the gradual recovery of local markets and enable households to improve, choice and dietary diversity.
o Bread production will continue at levels sufficient to meet immediate needs, while supporting a transition away from fully subsidized bakeries towards a market-based bakery system with WFP shifting to an enabling role:
ü Additional bakeries are in the process of being contracted to improve bread availability, market competition and geographical coverage.
o The December 2025 WFP Market Monitor revealed that while household consumption patterns improved in December, one in four households are reported to consume only one meal a day.
West Bank
· On January 8th, UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) reported that over the past two weeks, dozens of tents were destroyed in Bedouin/herding communities due to severe winter weather.
· Israeli authorities also demolished 50 structures and evicted two Palestinian families from their homes in East Jerusalem.
· OCHA reported on January 20th that the Israeli government placed an estimated 25,000 people under curfew in parts of the Israeli-controlled area of Hebron city:
o This action was taken as the IDF launched a large-scale operation.
o Families are confined to their homes, largely unable to access supplies such as food and medicine.
· On January 27th, water and electricity supplies were cut to UNRWA facilities inside the Shu’fat Camp, which is the only refugee camp within East Jerusalem:
o More than 16,000 registered resided in this camp.
Violations of International Humanitarian Law (IHL) Highlights:
· The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) on January 23rd stated that it has documented trends since the ceasefire came into effect on October 11, 2025:
o There has been continued killing of civilians in Israeli aerial attacks, shelling, and gunfire across all five governorates of Gaza. This includes in areas both far from and in the vicinity of the ‘Yellow Line’.
o Between October 11, 2025 and January 21, 2026, OHCHR recorded at least 216 Palestinians killed (including 46 children and 28 women) in Israeli attacks far from the "Yellow Line," primarily affecting shelters for internally displaced persons (IDPs) and residential buildings.
o At least 167 Palestinians (26 children and 17 women) were reportedly killed in the vicinity of the “Yellow Line”.
o During the same period, OHCHR recorded at least 80 reported killings of Palestinians by Hamas since the ceasefire, mostly in clashes with rival families and in summary executions.
· On January 21st, OHCHR reports a IDF strike on a car near Netzarim which reportedly killed three journalists.
· On January 24th, the IDF began an operation to return the body of Master Sergeant Ran Gvili who was taken hostage in October 2023. His body was finally retrieved on January 27th.
· On January 25th, the remains of UNRWA headquarters in East Jerusalem caught fire. This followed the large-scale demolition of structures inside the compound by Israeli authorities on January 20.
· The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) on January 27th reported that Israel is the third worst jailer of journalists worldwide:
o 29 Palestinian journalists are behind bars.
o The majority of them are being held in arbitrary detention without due process or a legal basis for their arrests.
Sources:
· Humanitarian Situation Update #355 | Gaza Strip
· UNRWA Situation Report #206 on the humanitarian crisis in the Gaza Strip and the occupied West Bank, including East Jerusalem
· WFP State of Palestine Emergency Response External Situation Report #80, 27 January 2026 (Reporting period: 1-18 January)
· Israeli Defense Forces Twitter Page
· Palestine Red Crescent Society Twitter Page
· OCHA Occupied Territories Twitter Page
· WHO Occupied Territories Twitter Page
· Committee to Protect Journalists Twitter Page
· MSF International Twitter Page
Resources:
MSF statement on staff registration and the continuation of medical care in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (New)
Statement attributable to the Spokesperson for the Secretary-General - on the demolition of the UNRWA Sheikh Jarrah compound (New)
Monetary Donations:
· UN Crisis Relief, Occupied Palestinian Territories
· WHO Foundation, Gaza Crisis: Help Save Lives
· UN Migration Agency, Gaza