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UN project services agencies in the field (UNOPS) reported three incidents affecting convoys and their locations on three consecutive days in the past week alone.
Executive Director Jorge Moreira da Silva said these included close-range explosions, drivers being detained at checkpoints, and multiple small arms fire that struck one of the procurement agency’s guesthouses.
The safety of UNOPS staff has too often been compromised, he said, stressing that all parties involved in the fighting in Gaza must uphold their obligations to protect civilians and humanitarian personnel.
Guterres condemned attacks in the West Bank
Meanwhile, Secretary General Antonio Guterres continued to express its deep concern over the escalation of violence in the West Bank as Israel’s offensive in Hebron continues.
Association spokeswoman Daniela Gross told reporters at a daily briefing in New York that the UN chief was monitoring the situation there closely.
“He is deeply concerned by these attacks… the increasing violence in the West Bank. He condemns the violence. And he also firmly opposes settler attacks in the region.”
Between January 2025 and the end of September 2026, 331 Palestinians, including 77 children, were killed in the West Bank.and more than 42,000 people were forced to flee their homes, according to the UN aid coordination office. Ocha. In the same period, 21 Israelis killed in the West Bank.
OCHA also recorded 3,684 attacks carried out by Israeli settlers during this period resulting in loss of life or property damage.
Flood risk
Despite restrictions and a lack of funding, the UN and its partners continue to send limited supplies to Gaza. On Monday, the UN team brought food, blankets, winter clothes, school supplies and fuel, according to OCHA.
Over the past week, partners distributed school bags to more than 8,000 children. A week earlier, they provided stationery to around 22,000 boys and girls and provided around 300 classrooms to support around 60,000 children.
Many families live in damaged tents and shelters and have no protection against cold, wind and rain. About 950,000 people live in evacuation sites at moderate to high risk of flooding, and supplies to support them are insufficient, according to shelter assessments.
The media is under attack
Also on Tuesday, Francesca Albanese, the UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the occupied Palestinian territories, briefed journalists virtually on her latest report, which focused on the media.
He reminded journalists that he could not attend in person due to sanctions imposed on him by the United States.
According to Albanese, nearly 300 journalists and media workers have been killed in Gaza, citing UN sources, and more than 100 people have been detained, many of them tortured.
A number of 150 media centers and offices – 80 percent of Gaza’s media infrastructure – have been destroyedhe said, while in the West Bank more than 139 attacks on journalists have been recorded recently.
He also criticized Israel’s ban on foreign journalists entered Gaza and said there was no accountability for the killing of Palestinian journalist Shireen Abu Akleh.
“This update is impunityhe said.
His report also documents intimidation and repression of Palestinian journalists by Hamas in Gaza and the Palestinian Authority in the West Bankhe said.
