Overview
- Gaza health authorities report a sharp increase in suspected and confirmed meningitis cases among children under five.
- Widespread hospital damage and depleted reserves of medicines and vaccines have crippled emergency response efforts.
- Critical fuel shortages have immobilized ambulances, forced hospitals to ration power and jeopardized water desalination.
- OCHA says new Israeli displacement orders have confined residents to roughly 15 percent of Gaza, fragmenting shelters and essential services.
- The WHO has called for protection of the overwhelmed Nasser Medical Complex in Khan Younis, which is operating at double capacity with critical supply deficits.