The Humanitarian Situation Updates on the Gaza Strip and on the West Bank are both issued every Wednesday. The Gaza Humanitarian Response Update is issued every other Tuesday. The next Humanitarian Situation Updates will be published on 28 May.

Umm Mahmoud meets with OCHA staff. Photo by OCHA

Statement on Gaza by Tom Fletcher, Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator The Israeli authorities have temporarily allowed us to resume delivery of limited aid into Gaza, following 11 weeks of complete blockade, and amid a spike in the military offensive. This is a welcome development that should remain in place. Today, nine of our trucks were cleared to enter, via the Kerem Shalom crossing.

Statement by Tom Fletcher, Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator, on resuming aid delivery to Gaza New York, 16 May 2025 As we demonstrated during the ceasefire this year – and every time we’ve been granted access – the United Nations and our humanitarian partners have the expertise, resolve and moral clarity to deliver aid at the scale necessary to save lives across Gaza.

The United Nations and its humanitarian partners (national and international non-governmental organizations) have a clear, principled, and operationally sound plan ready to deliver large-scale, in-kind humanitarian aid and life-saving services across the Gaza Strip. We have the personnel, distribution networks, systems, and community relationships in place to act without delay and in a way that ensures aid is delivered directly to civilians in need, and without diversion.

The Humanitarian Situation Updates on the Gaza Strip and on the West Bank are both issued every Wednesday. The Gaza Humanitarian Response Update is issued every other Tuesday. The next Humanitarian Situation Updates will be published on 21 May.