Gaza Humanitarian Response | Situation Report No. 4

24 Oct 2025

This daily report outlines UN and partners’ efforts and progress in scaling up the humanitarian response across the Gaza Strip under the ceasefire agreement that entered into effect on 10 October 2025.

HIGHLIGHTS

The rate of malnutrition in children screened by Nutrition partners decreased from 14 per cent in September to 10 per cent in the first two weeks of October.
Between 11 and 25 October, 17,741 vulnerable households were reached with Multi-Purpose Cash Assistance.
The Site Management Cluster is supporting service scale up and winterization interventions at six newly activated displacement sites in the Mawasi area of Rafah, where access was restricted prior to the ceasefire.
Forty classrooms in southern Gaza have been rehabilitated, and student enrollment is ongoing.

UNITED NATIONS-COORDINATED HUMANITARIAN AID ENTRY^*

UN and partner truck offloads and collections - 23 October

On 23 October, 130 UN and partner trucks were offloaded at the Kerem Shalom and Kissufim crossings. At least 54 per cent of all trucks comprised food supplies.

On the same day, at least 131 United Nations-coordinated trucks were collected for distribution inside Gaza – all from Kerem Shalom. These include 1,239 pallets of wheat flour and supplies for hot meals, food parcels and fresh vegetables; 389 pallets of shelter items – blankets, shelter kits, family tent pipe and fitting, high-performance tents and winter clothes; 338 of hygiene kits; 289 pallets of medical items, as well as 115,850 litres of diesel fuel.

Trucks manifested and collected (preliminary) - 24 October

For 24 October, 28 UN trucks with wheat flour were manifested for entry by the Logistics Cluster, all dispatched from Ashdod to the Kissufim crossing, while Kerem Shalom remained closed for offloads.

While no comprehensive data for cargo collection on 24 October is available yet, UNICEF uplifted 16 trucks with 432 pallets of hygiene kits and water jerrycans, and UNFPA collected five double trucks with 174 pallets of post-partum kits. At least two food cargo uplift missions were also facilitated, but details remain to be confirmed.

HUMANITARIAN RESPONSE

Food Security

On 23 October, 1,033,000 meals were prepared and delivered by 20 partners through 171 kitchens – 72,000 meals by 14 kitchens in the north and 961,000 meals by 157 kitchens in the south.
Fifteen UN-supported bakeries are baking bread daily across the Strip – nine in Deir al Balah and Khan Younis, which are collectively producing more than 100,000 two-kilogram bread bundles, and six in Gaza City which resumed production on 23 October after receiving fuel and flour from partners during the past two days. The bread is distributed either for free through partners across hundreds of sites, including community kitchens, shelters and community sites, or sold via more than 20 contracted retailers at a subsidized price of 3 NIS per bundle. In addition, on 22 October, one FSS partner resumed support to a commercial bakery in Gaza city, producing more than 50,000 loaves (approximately 5,000 kilograms) of bread per day for free distribution.
General food parcel distributions continue across 38 distribution points, of which nine in the north. Partners are working to open more points.

Nutrition

During the first two weeks of October, Nutrition Cluster partners screened 51,995 children across the Gaza Strip. Of the total, 4,994 were identified with acute malnutrition, including 1,053 with the most severe form. While the number of children suffering from acute malnutrition remains high, the detection rate among those screened has decreased from 14 to 10 per cent compared to September. This reduction may be attributed to the improved availability of food in some areas.
The Cluster continues to support partners through the provision of therapeutic food, critical in the treatment of acute malnutrition. During the first two weeks of October alone, 4,172 boxes of Ready-to-Use Therapeutic Food (RUTF) were dispatched, sufficient to meet the needs of all children admitted for treatment during that time.

Shelter

On 23 October, the Shelter Cluster distributed 1,200 tents in Deir al Balah and Khan Younis. The distribution was based on field assessments, targeting households identified as the most vulnerable, both in terms of urgent shelter needs and social conditions.

Site Management

On 23 October, the Site Management Cluster recorded 9,430 people moving from southern to northern Gaza, with approximately 100 reverse movements from north to south also observed.
Partners continue to implement site management activities across 245 displacement sites, out of more than 800 active sites throughout the Gaza Strip which are hosting close to 1 million people. This includes six newly activated sites in the Mawasi area of Rafah, where humanitarian access was severely restricted prior to the ceasefire. Efforts by partners are ongoing to link the newly established sites with service providers, while advancing critical site improvement works focused on winterization, including flood mitigation, slope stabilization, and coordination with Shelter/NFI partners to distribute essential items such as bedding, tarpaulins, and tents.

Protection

Child Protection: Over the past week, partners reached daily, on average:
- 1,000–1,500 children and caregivers through structured psychosocial support, recreational activities, case management, and awareness-raising sessions in Khan Younis, Deir al-Balah, Al-Maghazi, and Al-Bureij camps.
- approximately 900 children and caregivers through child protection awareness sessions across the southern governorates.
- around 250–300 caregivers through awareness sessions on positive parenting, child safeguarding, and psychosocial wellbeing, enhancing their capacity to support children’s emotional recovery and resilience.
- 25–30 at-risk children, including unaccompanied and separated children (UASC), children with disabilities, and others facing heightened protection risks, through case management and specialized protection services.
Mine Action: On 24 October, Mine Action partners provided technical assistance in an inter-agency mission and continued to deliver explosive ordnance risk education sessions in Khan Younis and Deir al Balah.

Education

The Cluster is supporting the rehabilitation of 97 classrooms across 10 schools in Khan Younis and Deir al Balah to restore their use as learning spaces. So far, 40 classrooms have been rehabilitated, with student enrollment ongoing. At least 103 schools are currently hosting IDPs, with their use as shelters limiting cleaning, renovation and repurposing efforts.

Multi-Purpose Cash Assistance

Between 11 and 25 October, Cash Working Group (CWG) partners distributed Multi-Purpose Cash Assistance (MPCA) to 17,741 households, prioritizing newly displaced families and those identified as highly vulnerable through partner databases. Each household received 1,250 NIS (approximately US$378), delivered via payment codes or direct transfers to digital wallets.
This brings to at least 270,000 the number of households in Gaza that have received at least one MPCA installment thus far in 2025, and 403,200 households since the beginning of October 2023.
CWG members also identified an additional 44,000 households for potential response.

* All figures solely refer to UN and partner assistance dispatched through the UN-coordinated system, are preliminary and will be reconciled in the course of the ceasefire. Trucks entering through bilateral donations and the commercial sector are not reflected.