This brings the The total number of cold weather deaths this season stands at nine.UN deputy spokesman Farhan Haq told reporters in New York.
In response, the UN aid coordination office, OCHA, again called for urgent solutions “including allowing in batteries, solar panels and other energy sources needed to establish community heating spaces.”
Thousands receive food aid
Humanitarian services continue to support the people of Gaza after more than three months of ceasefire and amid continued aid restrictions.
Since the beginning of the year, more than 860,000 people have received food packages distributed through 50 distribution points, Haq said.
“We also continue to provide around 1.6 million hot meals each day. to people in need,” he added.
Vaccinations, medical evacuations.
UN partners working in the health sector have vaccinated 3,000 children under three years of age in the first two days of a 10-day routine immunization campaign that began on Sunday.
The goal is to further protect young people from vaccine-preventable diseases.
The World Health Organization (WHO) also facilitated another medical evacuation on Monday, transporting 21 patients and their companions to Jordan.
However, More than 18,000 patients, including 4,000 children, are still waiting to be evacuated. receive medical care that is not available in Gaza.
The WHO called for more UN member states to accept these patients and for the medical evacuation route to the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, to be reopened.
West Bank Update
In other developments:
OCHA published its latest report on the West Bank monthly update which showed that 14 Palestinians were killed and 231 wounded there in December.
Israeli settlers also carried out 132 attacks during this period resulting in casualties or property damage, while 246 Palestinians were displaced.
Seven Israelis were injured in the territory, although no fatalities were reported.
The report also documented a record number of settler displacements and attacks in 2025.
Ammunition, airstrikes and attacks.
Last year there were 240 Palestinian deaths, including 55 children, in the West Bank. The majority of deaths, 225, were at the hands of Israeli forces and nine by settlers. The rest were from any of these groups.
Three-quarters of all deaths (181) were caused by live ammunition and 17 percent (41) occurred in airstrikes. The use of other weapons caused 18 deaths (eight percent).
Last year, 3,982 Palestinians were injured, including almost 700 children, and 37,135 were displaced . Attacks by Israeli settlers numbered 1,828 and caused casualties and/or material damage.
During the same period, 17 Israelis were killed, including a child and six members of the forces. Another 101 Israelis were injured, including five children and 32 soldiers.
Palestinian neighborhoods ‘systematically emptied’
Separately, the UN human rights office, OHCHR, warned that the pace of forced displacement of Palestinians in East Jerusalem is accelerating and that historic neighborhoods are being “systematically emptied.”
Ajith Sunghay, head of the OHCHR office in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT), highlighted the demolitions and evictions in the Silwan neighborhood south of the Old City.
Settlements have also expanded illegally in the heart of three of the most important Palestinian urban centers: East Jerusalem, Ramallah and Bethlehem.
Houses taken
“Evictions often result in the transfer of Palestinian housing to Israeli settlers.further eroding the Palestinian presence immediately adjacent to the Old City,” he said UN News.
“Israeli authorities are seizing some houses to make way for settlement projects that currently include a tourist park with a cable car line that would connect West Jerusalem to the Old City.”
A ruling by the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in July 2024 found that forced evictions and widespread home demolitions in Israel contravened the prohibition on forced transfers under the Fourth Geneva Convention.
The ICJ – the main judicial body of the UN – called on Israel to end its illegal presence in the occupied Palestinian territory.