The West Bank and Gaza
1.9 million people across the Gaza Strip are displaced (approximately 90% of the population)
64.3% of the Palestinian population live in poverty
61% of the West Bank is off-limits for Palestinian use
73 years life expectancy
What is happening in The West Bank and Gaza?
Since the Oslo accords – which handed responsibility for security and civilian affairs over to the Palestinian Authority (PA) – around 60% of the West Bank is still under full Israeli civil and military control, impacting the flow of people and goods throughout the territory.
Since the escalation of the conflict since 7 October 2023, over 60,000 people have been killed in Gaza and 1.9 million displaced, about 90% of the population. With no safe shelter, many live in overcrowded sites or open areas. As of 18th March 2025, 82% of Gaza is militarised or under evacuation orders. Healthcare is collapsing, with hospitals damaged, overwhelmed, or lacking basic supplies.
West Bank continues to face unrest, with displacement at all time high. Homes and refugee camps including Jenin have faced destruction and restricted water and electricity uses.
What’s the health situation?
The healthcare system in Gaza is on the brink of collapse. Functional medical facilities are now extremely limited, and the last hospital in North Gaza, Al-Awda Hospital in Jabalia, was forced to evacuate at the end of May 2025 under siege conditions. This leaves the region without a single operational hospital. Remaining facilities across Gaza are severely strained. Many hospitals have been damaged or destroyed, and those still operating face critical shortages of medicines, beds, fuel, and essential equipment. The few partially functioning centres are overwhelmed, with doctors resorting to rationing care, triage, and makeshift wards amid dire conditions.
There are urgent needs for trauma supplies to meet ongoing and new injuries sustained through the conflict. The need for mental health and psychosocial support is rapidly mounting as people in Gaza face daily intense psychological stressors, as well as those with mental health disorders who continue to experience disruptions in their treatments.
There is reportedly a high need for NCD-related medicines for those displaced with chronic conditions such as diabetes, hypertension and asthma who require consistent access to these disease-managing medicines.
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See how your donation makes a difference
£5 can help us to give 15 people treatment
£20 will provide 16 children with antibiotics
£100 will provide 83 pregnant women with life saving medicine.
£450 will provide am emergency medical kit to 60 families.
Whatever you give, you could be making a life-changing, even life-saving difference to someone every month.
See how your donation makes a difference
£5 is enough to source and send £600 worth of medical supplies a year to people in need; enough to help approximately 50 people around the world.
£10 is enough to source and send £1,200 worth of medical supplies a year to people in need; enough to help approximately 100 people around the world.
£25 is enough to provide around 750 treatments in a year, helping approximately 250 people in need; and for some, is the difference between life & death.
£100 is enough to provide medicines and supplies for approximately 1,000 people a year living in disaster-hit and vulnerable communites.
Whatever you give, you could be making a life-changing, even life-saving difference to someone every month.
What is IHP doing to help?
IHP works in The West Bank and Gaza with our partner, Anera, which has operated in the area since 1968. We support Anera to equip clinics and hospitals in both territories, to ensure that as many people as possible in the area can access high-quality healthcare.
IHP are bolstering the supply of critical trauma wound dressings and primary healthcare medication to pop-up clinics across Gaza and the West Bank. In 2024 we were able to support more than 2 million patients, and this will continue to be a key area of IHP’s work in 2025, with eleven shipments of essential medicines planned in the coming months.
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International Health Partners
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London, WC1X 8HN
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London, WC1X 8HN
United Kingdom
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EORI number GB235305140000.
International Health Partners
Fox Court, 14 Gray's Inn Road,
London, WC1X 8HN
United Kingdom
Fox Court, 14 Gray's Inn Road,
London, WC1X 8HN
United Kingdom
