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Sixty more Palestinians lose their homes
UN monitors count demolitions in Masafer Yatta and a mounting toll on women running households alone in Gaza.
In brief
UN monitors count demolitions in Masafer Yatta and a mounting toll on women running households alone in Gaza. Displacement in the West Bank is steady and cumulative, and in Gaza a quarter of households now rest on women surviving without partners. Originally reported by Vaticannews.
Sixty displaced this week
Israeli authorities demolished homes and structures in Masafer Yatta in the southern West Bank, leaving nearly 60 Palestinians without shelter, according to the UN.
Two farming villages hit
OCHA counted 20 homes plus several other facilities destroyed across two farming communities. A nearby community had been demolished days earlier, on 2 September.
The yearly count
1,500 Palestinians have lost their homes to demolitions across the West Bank this year. Another 2,600 were pushed out by settler violence and access restrictions.
One in four led by women
UN Women estimates about 86,290 families in Gaza are now headed by a woman, as airstrikes continue and aid stays limited.
Impossible daily decisions
Sofia Calltorp of UN Women has spoken with widows and with women whose husbands are missing, detained, injured or displaced, and who ration what little reaches them.
“a horrific amount of collective heartbreak”
Named among the dead
OCHA reports 246 women and girls killed in Gaza since a cease-fire 11 months ago, including Raghad Ashour, 18, killed heading to a school exam.
The short version
Displacement in the West Bank is steady and cumulative, and in Gaza a quarter of households now rest on women surviving without partners.
