Gaza Briefing: 5 September to 11 September 2026 / Page Updated:  12 September 2026

The NCF’s weekly overview of developments in Gaza, including the humanitarian situation, aid, peace efforts and related developments.

Deaths as a consequence of war

Since 7th October 2023

Since the ceasefire on October 10 2025

This week (5-11 September):

Sources: Palestine Information Center/IMEMC, 11–12 (figure corroborated by two independent wire pickups: Palinfo and SABA). Israel: Israel government’s official numbers and Israeli media

Notes on this week’s figures

Gaza: the cumulative Ministry of Health total rose by 309 over the week, but 160 of those were previously-unlisted deaths certified and added in a single batch around 8 September (bodies recovered from rubble and formally identified), not newly occurring in this reporting window. The weekly fatality figure above (149) is the total after removing that correction. Injuries (198) are an exact difference between the two reported cumulative totals, calculated the same way as every prior week.

An unresolved discrepancy worth flagging: the “since ceasefire” counter rose by only 20 killed over almost exactly this same week (1,338 → 1,358), far below the 149 given above for “since 7 October 2023” after removing the known batch. One possible explanation is that some of the 149 are bodies recovered and certified this week that actually died before the ceasefire began — which would add to the “since 7 October” total without adding to the “since ceasefire” counter — but this is a guess, not something confirmed in the reporting we have reviewed. Both figures are given as reported rather than forced into agreement.

Israel — revised methodology: the Israel fatality figure since 7 October 2023 has been revised from an unreconciled approximation (previously ~2,240) to a properly sourced, named-basis total of 1,804, built as follows:

• 695 civilians + 71 foreign nationals killed on 7 October 2023, per Israel’s National Insurance Institute (Bituah Leumi) social-security-based named list, published December 2023. Other genuinely named compilations (Haaretz’s own list: 1,147; INSS, Dec 2024: 1,163) put the 7 October toll slightly higher, reflecting ongoing identification of remains rather than political dispute — 1,139 is used here as the most fully documented and most widely cross-checked figure.
• 968 soldiers + 70 police killed since 7 October 2023 through to the present, per the IDF’s own published named list (Times of Israel, 6 August 2026). This figure already includes the roughly 331 soldiers killed during the 7 October attack itself, so it is not added to the 373 “security forces” counted in Bituah Leumi’s 7 October figure above — only the 695 civilians and 71 foreign nationals from that count are carried forward, to avoid double-counting.
• Israel injury figures (3,004 since 7 Oct 2023; 20 since ceasefire) have not yet been revised to the same named standard and should be treated as carrying the same caveats as before.

Humanitarian Aid for the week of 4–10 September

(This week’s report is anchored on the Gaza Crossings Authority’s own official weekly bulletin, covering 4–10 September — a slightly different window from previous weeks’ Sunday–Thursday framing, reflecting the source’s own reporting cycle.)

NCF Exclusive: Gaza Crossings Authority Report

This section is based on the Gaza Crossings Authority’s official bulletin for 4–10 September 2026, obtained directly by NCF’s Head for Gaza, Adel Al Zanoon, through personal contact with the Director of the Gaza Crossings Authority. NCF is grateful to both for this access. This is original NCF-sourced information; it may or may not be independently available elsewhere, and — as a single-source report from the Gaza-side crossings authority — has not been cross-verified against an independent international body.

Crossing operational status, 4–10 September (7-day period):

All passenger movement this week went via Rafah; Kerem Shalom was entirely closed to passengers. All commercial/goods traffic went via Kerem Shalom; Zikim and Kissufim were both fully closed all week.

Passenger movement, 4–10 September:

Net movement this week: zero — departures and returns were exactly balanced.

Breakdown of the 334 departures:

100% of this week’s departures were medical (patients and their companions) — no departures for education, family reunification, or other non-medical reasons were recorded. This is a directly relevant data point given Ben Gvir’s “voluntary emigration” plan announced earlier this month: this week’s official crossings data shows no evidence of non-medical outward movement.

Truck movement, 4–10 September (all via Kerem Shalom):

Fuel breakdown (63 tankers): Diesel 37, Cooking gas 24, Gasoline 2.

Truck contents by category (all 1,479 trucks):

Source: Gaza Crossings Authority, Public Relations and Media, weekly bulletin for 4–10 September 2026, via Adel Al Zanoon (NCF Head for Gaza) and the Director of the Gaza Crossings Authority.

Important note on scale: at 1,479 total trucks for the week, this official comprehensive figure is far larger than any of the three groups tracked below — because it counts every truck crossing at Kerem Shalom regardless of who organised it, while UN2720, the Chamber of Commerce, and bilateral figures each capture only a subset. Do not attempt to reconcile or sum this figure with the Group 1/2/3 figures below — they are measuring different things at different levels of completeness, and this Crossings Authority total likely already includes the shipments counted separately (and partially) by all three groups.

Group 1: Private Sector (Gaza Chamber of Commerce)

No figure available for this week. The most recent published figure remains 828 truckloads for 13–19 July 2026 — now nearly two months stale.

Source: OCHA oPt Humanitarian Situation Report, 23 July 2026.

Group 2: UN-Coordinated Aid (UN2720 Mechanism, verified by UNOPS)

No figure available this week. The UN2720 dashboard remains offline for a platform migration, with service due to resume Monday, 14 September 2026.

Group 3: Bilateral State/Government Donations

No complete or independently verified figure available. Closest reference point: UAE state media reported 66 trucks / 533 tonnes for the week ending ~6 September 2026 (Operation Chivalrous Knight 3) — close to, but not exactly matching, this reporting window.

A Note on COGAT (Israeli Government Data)

Unchanged finding: gaza-aid-data.gov.il’s date-range search still returns no results for any 2026 period (NCF’s own direct testing). The most recent dated COGAT report located still covers only through 7 June 2026.

Caveats

• The Gaza Crossings Authority figures above are NCF’s own exclusive sourcing, obtained directly from the Gaza-side crossings authority — valuable and detailed, but single-source and not independently cross-verified.
• Do not sum the Crossings Authority total with the Group 1/2/3 figures — they measure overlapping ground at different levels of completeness.
• Group 1 and Group 3 figures are not concurrent with this reporting week.
• Group 2 is unavailable this week due to a platform migration, not a data or access failure on NCF’s part.
• Group 3 is self-reported, unverified.
• COGAT remains unusable as a current source.

Key Developments: 5 September – 11 September

6 September: Netanyahu boasts in a televised interview about Israel’s September 2025 strike on Doha, calling Qatar a “hostile” state, ahead of the strike’s one-year anniversary.

6 September: Mass funeral held in Gaza City for 100 Palestinians, including 60 children, whose remains were recovered from rubble in the Zeitoun neighbourhood; Gaza’s civil defence chief says up to 8,000 more bodies could be recovered within 90 days if proper heavy equipment were made available.

9 September: Israel Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar states Israel has “no plans to expel or to deport” Palestinians from Gaza — an apparent contradiction of Ben Gvir’s and Katz’s public emigration push earlier in the month.

10 September: New Israel border-crossing data show some 10,500 people have exited Gaza since the October 2025 ceasefire, with roughly 6,000 having returned — a net outflow of approximately 4,500.

10 September: A Board of Peace official tells the Times of Israel that Netanyahu largely cooperated with the Gaza peace process until entering “campaign mode” ahead of October’s Knesset election, and that the board’s leverage over Israel will not return until after the vote.

11 September: The IDF “categorically rejects” allegations in a new Israeli-made documentary, “NAZA,” about AI-assisted targeting contributing to civilian deaths in Gaza; the film received a 25-minute ovation at its Venice premiere.

NCF Exclusive, 4–10 September: Official Gaza Crossings Authority data, obtained by NCF’s Head for Gaza Adel Al Zanoon direct from the Authority’s Director, shows exactly 334 people left Gaza this week and exactly 334 returned — a net movement of zero — with 100% of departures (165 patients, 169 companions) medical in nature and no departures recorded for education, family reunification, or other non-medical reasons. This is a direct, NCF-sourced counterpoint to Ben Gvir’s “voluntary emigration” push earlier this month: official crossings data for this specific week shows no evidence of voluntary outward movement beyond medical necessity.

Gaza Governance

Transitional Administration:

The National Committee for the Administration of Gaza (NCAG) is designated as the Palestinian civilian administration for Gaza under the Gaza peace framework.

Head: Ali Shaath, Chief Commissioner of the NCAG.

International Oversight:

The transition is overseen by the Board of Peace, with Nickolay Mladenov serving as High Representative for Gaza.

Gaza Executive Board, Board of Peace

Hamas:

In July 2025, Hamas announced it will transfer civilian and security governing authority to the NCAG. The transfer remains in progress, with the implementation of Hamas’ disarmament and the full establishment of NCAG authority still unresolved.

Hamas has traditionally organised its leadership across four pillars — Gaza, the West Bank, the diaspora/external leadership, and (historically) a prisoners’ portfolio. Israel’s assassination of most of the pre-war leadership has significantly reshaped this structure over the past two years:

• Overall Chairman of the Political Bureau: Khalil al-Hayya, elected 20 July 2026 (35–34 over Khaled Mashal), replacing the five-member collective leadership that governed since Yahya Sinwar’s death in October 2024. Formally based in Doha, Qatar, but widely described as Gaza’s de facto leader and remains Hamas’s lead ceasefire negotiator — effectively merging the old “external” and “Gaza political” pillars at the top of the organisation for now.
• Political leader inside Gaza: Ali al-Amoudi, a Sinwar ally released in the 2011 Gilad Shalit prisoner exchange, is the figure reported to be managing Hamas’s internal political affairs in Gaza following al-Hayya’s promotion. Hamas has not formally confirmed this appointment, deliberately keeping it ambiguous for security reasons.
• Diaspora/external leadership: Khaled Mashal, who lost the July 2026 leadership vote to al-Hayya, continues to lead Hamas’s operations and diplomacy abroad.
• West Bank / prisoners’ portfolio: Zaher Jabarin leads Hamas’s West Bank operations and also formally holds the “Office of Martyrs, Wounded, and Prisoners” portfolio — the closest surviving equivalent of the historic separate prisoners’ leadership, now folded into the West Bank role rather than a standalone seat.
• Head of the Shura Council: Muhammad Ismail Darwish (Abu Omar Hassan).
• Military wing (Izz al-Din al-Qassam Brigades) commander: Mohammed Odeh, who succeeded Izz al-Din al-Haddad after al-Haddad was killed in an Israeli airstrike on 15 May 2026. Odeh previously commanded Hamas’s northern Gaza brigade.

Palestinian Authority (PA):

The PA is the internationally recognised Palestinian governing authority, with a stated objective of eventually assuming governance responsibilities in Gaza.

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