People sift through the smouldering rubble of buildings destroyed in an Israeli strike on the Bureij refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip on November 2, 2023. Photo by Mahmud HAMS / AFP
The UN’s humanitarian office says the cost of meeting the needs of 2.7 million people in Gaza and the occupied West Bank is estimated at $1.2bn.
On October 12, OCHA had initially appealed for $294m to support nearly 1.3 million people.
“The situation has grown increasingly desperate since then,” it said.
