Jan Egeland visit to Palestine, November 2022

Gaza

NRC Secretary General Jan Egeland visiting Gaza in October/November 2022.

Over two million Palestinians live in Gaza which has been under Israeli blockade for 15 years. Some 63 per cent of Gaza’s population (1.3 million people) will need humanitarian aid in 2022. 47 per cent of Gaza’s population are children under 18. Teenagers there have lived through 5 major escalations in hostilities.

Photo: Yousef Hammash/NRC