Gaza war and West Bank tracker

What is happening in Gaza?

Gaza war and the West Bank: the ceasefire, Board of Peace and settler violence, key actors, a sourced timeline, what to watch, and monthly conflict data.

This tracker reports the latest available monthly humanitarian conflict summary for the Occupied Palestinian Territory, aggregated from subnational records covering Gaza and the West Bank together. Recorded event counts are not casualty estimates and are known to lag and undercount during periods of restricted access.

Maintained month snapshot

This page records the committed 2026-10-01 HAPI/HDX country summaries published November 2, 2026. JavaScript can refresh newer values; the numbers above remain available without it.

Source: SUZU Monitor weekly pulse snapshot, November 2, 2026. Combined totals are withheld when covered countries report different reference months.

Background

The war began on 7 October 2023, when Hamas-led attacks in Israel killed 1,139 people and took about 240 captive, according to Al Jazeera; UN News puts the number taken at some 250. Three years on, Gaza's Ministry of Health, as cited by Al Jazeera, had recorded 74,382 Palestinians killed as of 12 October 2026, and OCHA counted 1.98 million people displaced, about 90 percent of the population. The Board of Peace's high representative told the Security Council in May 2026 that around 80 percent of Gaza's buildings are damaged or destroyed. Sources: Al Jazeera (1, 2), UN News (1, 2).

A first-phase ceasefire under President Trump's 20-point plan was announced on 10 October 2025; Hamas freed the 20 surviving hostages on 13 October and Israel released more than 1,900 Palestinian prisoners. On 17 November the Security Council adopted Resolution 2803, welcoming a Board of Peace as Gaza's transitional administration and authorising an International Stabilization Force. The force has not deployed: Israel's cabinet approved only a 200-member pilot in a Rafah 'test' zone in July 2026, and a Board-announced disarmament roadmap of 30 July ties Israeli withdrawal to verified decommissioning, which Hamas says it will not implement unless Israel fulfils its obligations. Sources: OCHA oPt, France 24, UN News, Al Jazeera (1, 2, 3).

OCHA reports that the Ministry of Health had recorded 1,493 deaths since the ceasefire as of 12 October 2026, and that Israeli restrictions still bar access to 65 percent of Gaza's land. Al Jazeera reports Israeli forces pushing the 'Yellow Line' into Gaza City neighbourhoods and aid trucks entering at about a third of the agreed rate. In the West Bank, OCHA documented more than 2,060 settler attacks causing casualties or damage since the start of 2026; after gunmen killed two Israeli soldiers near Hebron on 23 October, Netanyahu ordered the city sealed and a West Bank-wide lockdown, the fourth closure in a month according to the UN. Sources: OCHA oPt (1, 2), Al Jazeera, UN News.

Key actors

• Hamas — Palestinian armed group and former de facto authority in Gaza; negotiator Ghazi Hamad said it 'will not implement any step' of the disarmament roadmap unless Israeli forces fulfil their obligations. (Al Jazeera)
• Israeli government and military — Controls territory behind the 'Yellow Line', which Al Jazeera says covers up to 70 percent of Gaza, and says there will be no withdrawal until Hamas fully disarms. (Al Jazeera)
• Palestinian Authority — Mahmoud Abbas's Ramallah-based government, which has postponed Palestinian legislative elections to September 2027 as settler attacks and demolitions mount in the West Bank. (Al Jazeera)
• Board of Peace — Gaza's transitional oversight body under Resolution 2803, chaired by Trump; with Egyptian, Qatari, Turkish and US mediators it announced the phased disarmament roadmap on 30 July 2026. (Al Jazeera)
• Israeli settlers — OCHA recorded 244 settler incidents across 113 West Bank communities in the two weeks to mid-October 2026, with 74 percent of Palestinian injuries occurring in settler attacks. (OCHA oPt)

Timeline

1. October 7, 2023 — Hamas-led attacks on southern Israel killed 1,139 people and took about 240 captive, according to Al Jazeera's count, beginning the Gaza war. (Al Jazeera)
2. October 10, 2025 — A first-phase ceasefire under the US 20-point plan was announced; OCHA uses this date as the start of its count of casualties since the ceasefire. (OCHA oPt)
3. October 13, 2025 — Hamas freed the 20 surviving hostages and Israel released more than 1,900 Palestinian prisoners as leaders met in Sharm el-Sheikh, with the US, Egypt, Qatar and Turkiye signing as guarantors. (France 24)
4. November 17, 2025 — The Security Council adopted Resolution 2803 by 13 votes with China and Russia abstaining, welcoming the Board of Peace and authorising an International Stabilization Force. (UN News)
5. July 26, 2026 — Israel's security cabinet approved a 200-member foreign-force pilot in a Rafah 'test' zone, restricted to operating outside the Yellow Line. (Al Jazeera)
6. July 30, 2026 — Trump announced that the Board of Peace and mediators had agreed a phased Hamas disarmament roadmap under which Israeli forces withdraw as disarmament is completed. (Al Jazeera)
7. October 12, 2026 — The Gaza Ministry of Health count of deaths since the ceasefire reached 1,493, with 5,299 injured, according to OCHA; five Palestinians were killed in the West Bank in two weeks. (OCHA oPt)
8. October 23, 2026 — Gunmen killed two Israeli soldiers near Hebron; Netanyahu ordered the city sealed and a full West Bank lockdown, the fourth territory-wide closure in a month. (UN News)

What to watch

• Strikes along the Yellow Line. OCHA counts 1,493 deaths since the ceasefire and Al Jazeera reports the line being pushed into Gaza City; a rise in strikes there would show the truce decaying further. Tracked in the Middle East Strikes map layer on the live dashboard.
• Deployment of the International Stabilization Force. No ISF troops have deployed a year into the ceasefire and the disarmament roadmap depends on them; first arrivals in the Rafah test zone would restart the stalled sequence. Tracked in the Live Intelligence panel on the live dashboard.
• West Bank closures and raids. Israel imposed four territory-wide closures in the month to 23 October; continued lockdowns and raids on Hebron, Nablus and Jenin after the 27 October election would mark a sustained escalation. Tracked in the Country Instability panel on the live dashboard.
• Settler attacks during the olive harvest. OCHA logged over 2,060 settler attacks in 2026 to mid-October and 74 percent of recent injuries in settler attacks; harvest-season incidents concentrate in rural communities and drive displacement. Tracked in the Armed Conflict Events map layer on the live dashboard.

Background, actors, timeline and watch list last reviewed October 24, 2026 against the linked sources. They are context for the monthly figures above, not part of the HAPI/HDX dataset.

Country readings

Palestine is not in the Country Instability Index's monitored set, so only its structural resilience reading is shown. Instability is a live 0-100 stress score; resilience is a structural 0-100 index ranked across countries. Both describe each country as a whole, not this crisis alone, and a country without a reading reflects index coverage, not a statement about risk.

Sources: Country Instability Index published pulse and the country resilience index snapshot used on each country page.

Coverage boundary

Palestine (PS). Events outside this list are not included in the live totals on this page.

How to read this tracker

Use these monthly country summaries as a bounded pulse, then inspect the dashboard for event-level context, map layers, and other independent signals. The figures are not forecasts and should not be interpreted as a complete casualty or incident ledger. SUZU Monitor's forecasts are graded separately, and that record is published on the forecast accuracy scorecard.

Questions about the Gaza war and West Bank

Download: tracker.json. Scope source: SUZU Monitor crisis registry. Maintained metrics: HAPI/HDX humanitarian conflict summaries from the UN OCHA Humanitarian API.

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