Daily Peace and Crisis Report — Friday

Summary

See below for detail and source

Middle East

Gaza Strip

OCHA reported that the Gaza Ministry of Health recorded 40 Palestinians killed and 127 injured from 8 to 15 July. This brought the reported total since the 10 October 2025 ceasefire announcement to 1,123 fatalities and 3,616 injuries. OCHA also described ongoing military activity, displacement near the Israeli-controlled “Yellow Line”, and severe access constraints affecting humanitarian work. OCHA oPt (UN/humanitarian)

UN News reported that OHCHR recorded at least 57 Palestinians killed between 13 and 20 July, including six children and eight women; OHCHR said 34 were killed far from the Israeli-imposed “Yellow Line”. UN News (UN agency) UNRWA, citing Gaza Ministry of Health data reported through the Health Cluster, recorded 73,066 people killed and 173,514 injured in Gaza between 7 October 2023 and 29 June 2026. UNRWA (UN agency)

West Bank

UNRWA reported that, between 7 October 2023 and 29 June 2026, 1,109 Palestinians—including at least 243 children—were killed in the occupied West Bank, including East Jerusalem. UNRWA (UN agency) UN News reported that settler attacks accounted for 55 per cent of Palestinian injuries in the West Bank in 2026, and that about 850 Palestinians had been injured in the context of settler attacks by 21 July. UN News (UN agency)

OCHA reported more than 3,200 Palestinians displaced across the West Bank in 2026 by settler attacks and demolitions for lack of Israeli-issued permits, as access restrictions, settlement expansion, demolition and recurrent settler violence intensified humanitarian pressures. OCHA oPt (UN/humanitarian)

Lebanon

The New York Times reported that the Lebanese Army accused Israeli troops of firing near its units as they deployed in Zawtar al-Gharbiya under a U.S.-brokered pilot-zone arrangement. It reported no casualties from the shooting and described the deployment as part of a phased arrangement tied to Israeli withdrawals and Lebanese Army deployment in southern Lebanon. The New York Times (Western mainstream) The Soufan Center assessed that the arrangement places the Lebanese Armed Forces at the centre of a politically sensitive effort involving Israeli withdrawal and Hezbollah disarmament; this is analytical context, not an independent incident count. The Soufan Center (Western nuanced)

Iran–US, Red Sea and Strait of Hormuz

U.S. Central Command stated that U.S. forces conducted another round of strikes against Iranian military command centres, maritime capabilities, missile and drone launch sites, and air-defence systems. It said the operation aimed to reduce Iran’s capacity to attack commercial shipping in the Strait of Hormuz. U.S. Central Command (U.S. official)

Al Jazeera reported that UK Maritime Trade Operations said a vessel was targeted about 70 nautical miles off the Saudi coast, causing a fire but no reported crew casualties. The outlet also reported claims by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Houthis about attacks and shipping; these claims are attributed and not independently verified by that report. Al Jazeera (Qatari/intl)

Eastern Europe

Russia–Ukraine Conflict

OHCHR recorded at least 293 civilians killed and 1,990 injured in Ukraine in June 2026, the highest monthly civilian-casualty total it had documented since April 2022. It recorded 2,226 of 2,283 total June casualties in territory controlled by the Government of Ukraine, while cautioning that casualties in Russian-occupied territory are undercounted because of limited access and information. OHCHR / HRMMU (UN agency)

RT reported that Ukraine launched more than 200 drones against Russia overnight on 23 July, saying two civilians were killed and several others wounded; this is a Russian-state account. RT (Russian state) RT also described Russian strikes on Ukrainian port and industrial targets as operations against military logistics; those assertions are reported as RT’s account and are not independently verified here. RT (Russian state)

Russia Matters’ 22 July compilation listed 8,012 “peaceful residents” killed according to the Russian government, which should be treated as an RF government claim rather than an independently verified civilian-casualty figure. Russia Matters (Western nuanced)

Africa

Sudan

UN officials warned that escalating fighting around El Obeid could place an estimated 500,000 civilians at immediate risk of large-scale violence. At the Security Council briefing, UNICEF reported more than 5,700 verified grave violations against children since the conflict began and said 825,000 children under five could suffer acute malnutrition in 2026. UN Security Council coverage (UN agency)

UNICEF reported at least 330 children killed or injured across Sudan in the first six months of 2026. In North Kordofan, it reported more than 35 child casualties since May, including at least 18 children killed and more than 17 injured; it said drone attacks accounted for 60 per cent of those casualties. UNICEF via ReliefWeb (UN/humanitarian)

A 20 July humanitarian situation analysis reported 19.5 million people facing acute food insecurity, famine conditions confirmed in El Fasher and Kadugli, and more than 14 million people displaced since the conflict began. Data Friendly Space via ReliefWeb (UN/humanitarian) The Council on Foreign Relations states that analysts cannot precisely assess the conflict’s death toll and puts published estimates between 61,000 and hundreds of thousands. Council on Foreign Relations (Western nuanced)

Asia

Myanmar

UNHCR reported 3,814,100 internally displaced people in Myanmar as of 6 July, within a total population of concern of 4,523,661. Sagaing had the largest listed IDP population at 1,343,000, followed by Rakhine at 498,800. UNHCR (UN agency)

IOM and UNHCR expressed deep concern over reported maritime incidents off Myanmar’s coast in which more than 500 people were feared dead. The available agency page provides an alert-level account; the feared-dead figure should not be treated as a confirmed death toll absent further verification. IOM and UNHCR (UN agency)

Statistics

Table 1 — Casualties (Killed / Wounded)

* OHCHR access is denied to Russian-occupied areas of Ukraine; figures for civilians in occupied territory cannot be independently verified. The vast majority (96%) of verified civilian casualties occur in Government-controlled areas.

Table 2 — Numbers (non-casualty figures)