The UN’s appeal for the Palestinian territories asks $1,368 per person it targets, the most of any in the world
Dividing each of this year’s 34 UN humanitarian plans by the people it targets puts the occupied Palestinian territory first at $1,368 a head, ahead of Ukraine at $559. It held the same position last year.
In Gaza, cigarettes cost 23 times what they did before the war. Lentils cost less
The Palestinian statistics bureau’s Gaza commodity file, run against its own pre-war baseline, sorts almost perfectly by how a good gets in. Everything that has to be trucked, smuggled or grown locally has multiplied; the staples aid convoys carry have barely moved.
Israel now holds nearly 70% of Gaza as the ceasefire enters its tenth month
Nine months into a US-brokered truce, Israel now holds nearly 70% of Gaza — up from about half — even as strikes continue. A July 14 attack in Jabalia killed a police commander and several of his officers.
Hamas dissolves its Gaza government, handing civil rule to a UN-backed committee
Hamas said it has dissolved the body that has run Gaza and will transfer day-to-day affairs to a technocratic committee under a US-founded Board of Peace. It stopped short of disarming — the deadlocked core of the ceasefire.