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These farmers include Taysir Dahdouh, whose farm in the Zeytun neighborhood, east of Gaza City, is slightly smaller than a football field.
His land used to be covered by a greenhouse, but it was destroyed or lost due to the conflict that erupted on October 7, 2023. Currently, he needs equipment, seeds, fertilizer and water to grow cucumbers and tomatoes like before.
Taysir Dahdouh, a Palestinian farmer, works on his farm, which was rehabilitated after the ceasefire in Gaza.
200 new homes
Alessandro Mrakic, Head of the UN Development Program Office in Gaza (UNDP), notified UN News correspondents in the enclave said that families who had lived in heavily bombed areas had to move several times before returning.
“We have provided 200 assisted housing units to provide shelter to families who come back and start, as you can see behind me, farming – start producing eggplants, tomatoes, molokhia, etc.,” he said.
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (F.A.O) said on Thursday they have increased their cash transfer program to help some 1,500 Palestinian farmers cultivate land in Gaza during the 2026 planting season, enough to produce fresh vegetables for more than 100,000 people.
Not enough space
But the FAO warns that farmers are “squeezed into rapidly shrinking land” amid ongoing Israeli military activity, and rightly so. calls for access to land, sea and production inputs including seeds, fertilizer, irrigation equipment and fishing gear.
Elsewhere, Deputy Special Coordinator for the peace process Ramiz Alakbarov welcomed new commitments worth nearly $58 million from eight Member States UN Horizon Fundand calls on more partners to join the initiative.
World Food Program (WFP) says people forced to move to Gaza risk losing access to basic services and calls for safe access to reach those in need; despite the obstacles, they and their partners reached more than a quarter of a million people across 36 distribution locations in the first 12 days of this month.
Children play and swim on Gaza City beaches to escape the summer heat.
Summer break
Humanitarian partners also distributed more than 5,440 educational kits to support approximately 217,600 children during summer learning activities.
Turning to the West Bank, the high-level delegation was led by the aid coordination office Ocha visited the village of Deir Nidham in Ramallah Province on Wednesday, meeting with Palestinian families affected by settler violence and the expansion of settlement outposts.
Settler attacks accounted for about 55 percent of all Palestinian fatalities in the West Bank so far in 2026.
Guterres sounded the alarm
UN Spokesperson Stéphane Dujarric said the Secretary-General was “deeply concerned” that the Israeli government had granted city status to Givat Ze’ev, a settlement northwest of Jerusalem, and added that the designation “does not change the city’s legal status under international law as part of the Occupied Palestinian Territories.”
All Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank, including East Jerusalem, are illegal under international law, Dujarric stressed, recalling International Court of Justiceadvisory opinion July 2024.
He said settlements remained a major obstacle to a two-state solution, and renewed the Secretary-General’s call for Israel to halt all settlement expansion.
