Emergency Response in the West Bank - April and May 2025

By end of May, over 33,000 Palestinians remained displaced. They were hosted in collective shelters or in people’s home in various governorates, including in dozens of villages supported by World Vision. The influx of displaced families is putting pressure on local services already affected by the fiscal crisis of the Palestinian Authority (see here). Hosting communities are also very vulnerable due to the impact of the economic crisis and have very little capacity to support the displaced families (see here and here).

World Vision’s access to affected communities in the West Bank remained very limited with 15 to 20% of the supported villages unreachable in May. According to OCHA, by end
of May, 849 movement obstacles were permanently or intermittently restricting the movement of 3.3 million Palestinians across the West Bank. These movement restrictions continue to hinder the operations of emergency services, Civil Defence, ambulances and health care workers, limiting access to essential and lifesaving services (see here and here). They also have a devastating impact on the economy and access to education. 

To support communities, World Vision has continued its emergency response in April and May 2025, reaching 92,000 people including 60,000 children in 7 governorates. Read our report to learn more about our response.