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      Security Council LIVE: Deaths, demolitions spike in Gaza, West Bank

    
            
        




  
    
  

              
                  
                          Most Palestinians in Gaza still live in makeshift tents and shelters a year after the 2025 Hamas-Israel ceasefire agreement ended a devastating two-year war that left much of the Israeli occupied territory in ruins.
              
      
    




      
      

    
    
                          
                                                
                          
                
                                    

  
    
      
      
  Security Council LIVE: Deaths, demolitions spike in Gaza, West Bank



    
  




        15 October 2026
      Peace and SecurityAmid a rise in lethal Israeli strikes, demolitions and violence in Gaza and the West Bank, the Security Council held an open debate on Thursday focusing on the current situation in the Occupied Palestinian Territory.



Key pointsMore than 1,400 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza since the October 2025 Hamas-Israel ceasefire agreement that ended two years of war Nearly all of Gaza’s 2.1 million people still need shelter assistance as winter sets in, with the UN migration agency, IOM, warning that current supplies meet only about 17 per cent of needsAid into Gaza remains held back by underfunding and Israeli restrictions, including limited access to more than 64 per cent of Gaza’s land: UN relief agency, OCHAIn the West Bank, more than 1,600 Israeli settler attacks were recorded this year as of mid-September, over 4,300 Palestinians have been displaced and, with the olive harvest underway, UN partners are working to protect farmersWatch live on UN Web TV:





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