HOSTILITIES IN THE GAZA STRIP AND ISRAEL - REPORTED IMPACT The snapshot provides a comprehensive overview of the ongoing humanitarian crisis in Gaza as of 2 January 2024, including casualties, particularly among women and children.
Significant damage has been inflicted upon critical infrastructure and essential services, affecting people's ability to maintain their dignity and basic living standards.
This snapshot highlights reported figures on the impact of hostilities on people in Gaza, where a major humanitarian crisis has unfolded.
OVERVIEW
2 January 2024 at 23:59
Created: 2 January 2024 Disclaimer: The UN has so far not been able to produce independent, comprehensive, and verified casualty figures; the current numbers have been provided by Feedback: [email protected] the Ministry of Health or Government Media Office in Gaza and the Israeli authorities and await further verification.Other yet-to-be verified figures are also sourced.
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EGYPT
ISRAEL
Erez
Rafah
* For aid to enter, patients to exit, and aid
workers to cross; subject to screening.
Kerem
Shalom 5 Km
Sufa
Karni
Nahal Oz
D DD D D D D D D D D D D D D D D DD D D D D D
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Mediterranean Sea
GAZA
STRIP
60-Km-long Israeli fence
12.6-Km-long
Egyptian fence
Goods to/from/via Israel
People/goods
to/from Egypt
Closed gradually
between 2007 and 2011
Closed since 2010
Closed since 2008 (except Mar-Apr 2011)
People to/from/via Israel
Permanently Closed Crossing
Crossing
OPEN*
OPEN*
CLOSED
Gaza
Khan Younis
Rafah
Deir al Balah
Wadi Gaza
Gaza
North ACCESS PROHIBITED 0
5000
10000
Daily/cumulative 2 Jan 2023 2024 2023 2024 07 Oct 0
5000
10000
15000
07 Oct Daily/cumulative 2 Jan
2 Jan
REPORTED CASUALTIES (Cumulative) as of 2 January 2024
as of 11 December 2023
Palestinians*
22,185
Reported fatalities
57,035
Israelis**
Israel
Gaza
EDUCATION
FOOD SECURITY* HEALTH
INCOMING TRUCKLOADS
At high risk
At least 1,000 kidney failure, >2,000 cancer
patients, 130 neonates in incubators
Critical shortages
of drugs, blood products and supplies
(Fuel at the hospitals is being severely rationed)
625K (100%) Students with no
access to education
Over 69% of all school buildings have
sustained damage.
• One pipeline coming from Israel supply
about 1,100 cubic metres per hour for the
south area.
• No Access to clean water in the northern
governorates. Fuel shortage impacts: 60
water wells, 2 desalination plants, sewage
stations and pumps, wastewater treatment.
WATER AND SANITATION
in addition to ~1,000 fatalities in Israel, including
people involved in the 7 October attack
BASIC SERVICES AND LIVELIHOODS
*Soruces: Ministry of Health, Government Media Office
*Soruces: MoH Gaza
*GMO as of 2 Jan
** According to Israeli media citing official sources
Reported fatalities
Reported
fatalities
Reported injuries
Reported
injuries
Over 1,200***
171
~5,400
983
Reported injuries
DAMAGE*
65,000+
290,000+
Partially damaged housing units
Destroyed housing units
Over 60% of Gaza’s housing units
reportedly destroyed or damaged
370 education facilities reportedly damaged
11 bakeries reportedly destroyed
23 hospitals and 53 health care centres
out of service
104 ambulances damaged
20 WASH facilities damaged
At least 3 churches and 120 mosques
damaged
HUMANITARIAN OPERATION
MOVEMENT AND ACCESS
• 144 UN staff killed:
UNRWA: 142; WHO: 1; UNDP: 1
• At least 326 health workers killed
• 40 Civil Defence killed while on duty
• 106 Journalists killed
500 trucks including fuel pre-crisis average per working day in 2023 1,162 identified fatalities,
including at least 33 children
22,185*
Fatalities
57,035*
Injuries
~1.9million
internally displaced
(85% of Gaza)
0 hours
Full electricity
blackout
Population
2.3million
Area
365 km2
*** The reported estimate includes foreign nationals
128 hostages remain in Gaza (including
soldiers and foreign nationals)
• Hospitals are under heavy strikes.
• The number of functioning hospitals has
dropped from 36 to 13.
70% of Reported
fatalities
~5,153 Women
~7,729 Children
Families with multiple fatalities
1,838
EGYPT
JORDAN
SYRIA
LEBANON
GAZA
STRIP
WEST
BANK
ISRAEL
Nitzana Al Arish
•Due to security incidents since its opening on 17
December, aid through Kerem Shalom was
suspended between 25 and 28 December, but
resumed on 29 December. All other Israeli-controlled
crossings are closed.
•The Rafah crossing with Egypt is open for approved
goods, and for the movement of some wounded and
sick people, and aid workers.
•Access to the sea and to areas near Israel's perimeter fence is restricted.
*Source: IPC, 21 December
20 Oct
• 2.2 million people at imminent risk of famine
• 2.08 million people at Phase 3 (high levels of acute
food insecurity) or above
• 930,000 people at Phase 4 (emergency levels)
• 378,000 people at Phase 5 (catastrophic levels)
Phase 5 refers to extreme lack of food, starvation,
and exhaustion of coping capacities.
2023 2024
* For aid to enter; subject to screening.
0 20 14 20 8 12 10 48 26 59 55 102 47 30 25 93 81 106 29 67 53 28 115 91
0 30 0 30 66 51 79 80 80
196 200 201
95 300
100100
0 100100100100101 74 100100100100107152 124100121 185124 212165 149 92 93 110 11758 110 80 81 103 81125 143