International calls for a “humanitarian cease-fire” in the Israel-Hamas war are falling on deaf ears, with only a fraction coming in humanitarian aid under Israeli siege Gaza Stripwhile shortages of food, fuel, drinking water and medicine are worsening.

Here are some facts about the situation in the small enclave of 2.3 million people, controlled by Hamas, which some UN agencies are calling a “humanitarian disaster”.

DISPLACEMENT

Nearly 1.5 million people — more than half the population in the Gaza Strip — have fled their homes, with nearly 700,000 taking refuge in buildings managed by the UN agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA). according to data from the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA).

On November 2, four UNRWA shelters were struck, killing at least 23 people, according to OCHA.

Israel has called on civilians in northern Gaza – the heartland of Hamas forces – to move south for their own safety, although southern areas of the enclave have also been pounded by Israeli airstrikes resulting in the death and injury of civilians.

HOSPITALS

More than a third of Gaza’s 35 hospitals are out of business, and those that remain are reporting severe fuel shortages that have severely curtailed their electricity, according to the World Health Organization (WHO).

Gaza health authorities reported on November 2 that the main generator at the Indonesian hospital in northern Gaza stopped working due to a lack of fuel, OCHA said, “putting hundreds of seriously injured patients at imminent risk of death or lifelong disabilities.”

Already, the Turkish-Palestinian Friendship Hospital in Gaza City, where cancer patients are treated, has run out of fuel and is not functioning, according to the WHO.

Israel is in contact with health organizations to set up field hospitals in southern Gaza, an official said yesterday.

The WHO has recorded 93 attacks in the Gaza Strip since the conflict began, killing 16 on-duty health workers and damaging or destroying 28 ambulances.

DELIVERY OF AID

On November 2, 102 trucks with humanitarian supplies entered Gaza from Egypt through the Rafah border crossing, according to OCHA. This is the largest delivery of aid since these transfers started again on 21 October. The total number of trucks entered is 374.

Previously, only about 14 trucks a day entered Gaza, according to Reuters calculations. Before hostilities broke out on October 7, about 400 trucks were entering Gaza daily.

WATER

One of Gaza’s three water lines from Israel was restored for the first time since October 8, according to OCHA. The operation of water wells and desalination plants in the southern part of the enclave was almost completely stopped on November 2, as fuel reserves were almost exhausted.

FUEL

Aid groups say fuel is urgently needed to distribute aid and power hospitals, bakeries and desalination plants. But Israel continues to ban fuel from entering the enclave, saying it could be used by Hamas for military purposes.