The Monthly Humanitarian Bulletin | February 2018

Garbage accumulated in the Ash Sheikh Radwan area in Gaza City, 2 March 2018. © Photo by OCHA
Garbage accumulated in the Ash Sheikh Radwan area in Gaza City, 2 March 2018. © Photo by OCHA

Donations of $3.5 million avert a halt of emergency fuel program in Gaza, preventing the collapse of vital services; available funding will be exhausted by mid-2018. Newly-built classrooms demolished in a Bedouin community located in an area planned for settlement expansion; 44 schools in Area C and East Jerusalem at risk of demolition. Closure of a West Bank village, ongoing for over one month, generates hardship and raises concern about collective punishment.