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This comes a day after the UN and its partners consulted with representatives from 17 refugee sites hosting around 3,000 families following reports of Israeli troop movements and disruption to humanitarian services in the area.
The Israeli military established a buffer zone following a ceasefire agreement with Hamas in October 2025. Stretching some 45 kilometers, it divides the Gaza Strip in two.
Community representatives reported that the yellow blocks marking the line had moved north.
They also described the daily movement of Israeli tanks, the construction of sand embankments, and repeated firefights, with many families reportedly remaining inside their tents for most of the day for fear of being injured by gunfire or stray bullets.
Military activity increases
Ocha said humanitarian partners received reports on Tuesday afternoon of increased military activity around refugee camps near the “Yellow Line,” including reports of tanks moving towards one of the areas.
Initial reports indicated that one Palestinian was killed and three others injured at one location.
This insecurity is seriously disrupting the delivery of essential aid, including water, food, bread, hygiene support and routine site management services, OCHA said. The agency noted that a water truck driver was reportedly injured by gunfire last Wednesday.
Across Gaza, 1.1 million children face uncertain access to water every day, according to the UN children’s rights agency UNICEF.
Some 82 percent of households experience water shortages, UNICEF said, while 70 percent of the population cannot afford the recommended minimum of six liters of water per person per day for drinking and cooking.
A husband and wife in Cambodia stand near newly installed solar panels.
Advancing the clean energy transition ‘becomes more urgent’ as temperatures rise
The global shift to renewable energy “is currently unstoppable – but still needs to happen more quickly,” the UN Deputy Secretary-General Aminah Muhammad said on Tuesday in his remarks at the High-Level Meeting on Critical Energy Transition Minerals.
He stressed that advancing this transition – with speed and scale – is urgent and important.
“The climate crisis is pushing us further into planetary overshoot with rising temperatures pushing us closer to the tipping point of irreversible catastrophe,” he said.
The ‘folly’ of fossil fuels
“At the same time, the global energy crisis is exposing the folly of a world that remains dependent on hydrocarbons, with limited access to greener fuels for poor communities, and the accelerated deterioration of our natural systems, pushing ecosystems to the brink of collapse,” he added.
Ms. Mohammed stressed that these crises have the same cause, namely fossil fuels.
He underlined that they demand the same answer, namely “a rapid, just and inclusive transition to green energy, as well as sharing the benefits of decarbonization, and increased adaptation funding, resilient infrastructure and climate justice for those already facing adverse climate impacts.”
A woman receives a cholera vaccination in Sudan.
The cholera outbreak in Sudan spreads amid various drone attacks
Cholera continues to spread in Sudan as new drone strikes endanger civilians and humanitarian operations, the UN aid coordination office OCHA said on Tuesday.
Several drone strikes have been reported in the Darfur and Kordofan regions, the agency said update.
Humanitarian partners reported that on Sunday, a drone reportedly attacked a fuel station in the Al Malaja area of El Obeid, the capital of North Kordofan state.
On the same day, a drone also attacked several trucks traveling in North Darfur along the road between El Fasher and Um Kadada. A separate drone strike resulted in civilian casualties in the town of Kubum in South Darfur state.
This attack occurred as cholera continued to spread to new areas in Darfur and Kordofan.
More and more cholera cases emerged
The new cases were reportedly confirmed in the Kampala refugee camp in South Darfur, OCHA said, while the Tawila region in North Darfur reported its first suspected case.
“In West Kordofan, which has the highest number of cases, six new suspected cases and two related deaths were recorded by health partners, while in North Kordofan, 32 new suspected cholera cases were reported on Sunday in the Gharb Bara region,” the agency added.
This outbreak occurred as the war was raging in Sudan. As of July 7, there were 1,330 confirmed cases and 114 deaths, according to the World Health Organization (WHO).
Sudan faced a massive cholera outbreak at the same time last year resulting in more than 80,000 cases and more than 2,000 deaths.
Meanwhile, the UN and its partners continue to prepare supplies and scale up their response. For example, UNICEF delivered critical health supplies to El Fula in West Kordofan on July 12 that will support nearly 430,000 people.
OCHA reiterated its call for the protection of civilians and civilian infrastructure, while underscoring the need for rapid and flexible funding for humanitarian operations.
