Al Ahli Anglican Hospital is currently open, providing medical assistance and shelter to those in the North of Gaza.

Al Ahli Hospital (Gaza)

• The hospital urgently needs increased referrals from two field clinics in Gaza City to maintain surgical operations, scanning, and laboratory services.
• Rehabilitation support continues, with outpatient services treating approximately 700-800 people daily, and surgical operations averaging 30-35 per day through three shifts per day.
• Oncology services are maintained
• A Red Crescent donated ambulance is supporting hospital operations.
• Spare parts for waste trucks are urgently needed.
• Aid, including essential food and fuel supplies, has not been permitted into Gaza for the last five days.
• The hospital is currently operational 24 hours a day, thanks to fuel support provided by UNWRA and WHO, supplemented by approximately 30% solar energy capacity.

Gaza

• Approximately 1.6 million people remain displaced and are living in tents, with inadequate winterisation. Ten newborns have recently died due to cold exposure, highlighting an urgent need for shelter improvements.
• A significant increase in communicable diseases has been reported, impacting approximately one million people.
• Water supplies are severely limited and contaminated. Additionally, 80% of waste management infrastructure and equipment has been destroyed.
• There is a critical shortage of food, non-food items (NFIs), and hygiene materials.
• The presence of unexploded ordnance (UXO) poses a severe risk, causing fatalities as displaced people set up temporary shelters. UXO contamination is also preventing access to schools.
• Medical evacuations and access to essential drugs are severely restricted.
• Around 88% of schools remain closed, resulting in heightened psychosocial support (PSS) needs among children.
• Delays caused by reduced humanitarian access have devastating impacts.

West Bank

• Wide-scale IDF operations are severely affecting daily life, with extensive destruction to shelter and waste management infrastructure.
• Approximately 50,000 people have been displaced, with critical shelter shortages.
• Health services are heavily impacted, compounded by restrictions on movement that hinder access to medical facilities.
• Access to refugee camps, including Jenin, has been denied to the UN and other NGOs.
• Settlers have reportedly destroyed homes under IDF protection, further escalating the humanitarian crisis.
• Increasing violence has been reported in Nablus and southern areas of the West Bank.
• Schools have been shut down due to the ongoing situation.
• Humanitarian aid access has been significantly reduced, worsening the crisis.
• UNWRA operations in Jerusalem have ceased but continue in other parts of the West Bank.

Broader Context

• The closure of USAID-funded programmes has significantly impacted Palestinian Authority (PA) institutions, causing severe financial shortfalls. Hospitals and other key institutions previously funded by USAID have stopped receiving salaries, dramatically increasing unemployment.