UNICEF in the State of Palestine Escalation Humanitarian Situation Report No.47

Highlights

• In the Gaza Strip, approximately 800,000 children – the vast majority – remain displaced, living in unsanitary and overcrowded conditions marked by insects, pests and rodents as well as a severe lack of privacy.
• Responding to shortage of water, UNICEF reached 1 million people with safe water through water trucking, including 470,000 children, during January-March 2026.
• UNICEF’s Back to Learning response enabled 195,000 children to access safe learning and healing spaces in early 2026.
• In the West Bank, 1,700 Palestinians – including more than 750 children – were displaced by settler violence and access restrictions in the first three months of 2026 alone – already exceeding the total displacement for all of 2025. Over 530 incidents of settler violence
  incidents were documented – an average of approximately six per day.
• UNICEF and partners in the West Bank delivered integrated protection and mental health and psychosocial support (MHPSS) services to 15,012 people, including 7,901 children.