Project profile — Crisis in West Bank and Gaza - humanitarian assistance - UNFPA 2025

March 2025 - West Bank and Gaza continue to experience deteriorating humanitarian conditions, with high levels of need in health, protection and sexual and reproduction health and rights (SRHR). In 2025, the United Nations estimated that 3.3 million people require life-saving assistance. Gaza experienced mass destruction, with 60% of buildings, including 92% of homes and 88% of schools, damaged or destroyed. An estimated 1.9 million people, or 90% of the population, are internally displaced and face severe shortages of food, water, shelter, and healthcare, with the health system collapsing. With GAC’s support, the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) helps provide lifesaving sexual and reproductive health services and protection in the West Bank and Gaza. Project activities include: (1) providing emergency obstetric care and sexual and reproductive health services to women and adolescent girls; (2) ensuring protection from and response to gender-based violence; and (3) providing health services, supplies, commodities and medication, dignity kits, and reproductive health kits to crisis-affected people.

The expected outcomes of this project include: 1) improved sexual and reproductive health among vulnerable populations; and 2) strengthened protection against gender-based violence in the West Bank and Gaza.

Results achieved by UNFPA through the support of the Government of Canada and other international donors at the end of the project (December 2025) include: (1) reached 22,808 beneficiaries in Gaza, including 21,527 women and 1,281 men, with sexual and reproductive health (SRH) services and gender-based violence (GBV) prevention and response; (2) delivered emergency obstetric and newborn care services in settings with reduced clinical capacity; (3) distributed thousands of dignity and reproductive health kits to displaced women and girls; and (4) provided GBV case management and psychosocial first aid, prioritizing high-risk groups such as adolescent girls and women with disabilities.