This article is published in association with United Nations. Without an urgent and unrestricted flow of aid, Gaza’s already dire humanitarian crisis could deteriorate further, the UN warned on Friday. In his regular daily briefing, UN Spokesperson Stéphane Dujarric highlighted that ongoing delays, bottlenecks at holding points and interference in the loading process at crossing platforms […]UN warns Gaza crisis could worsen without safe, unrestricted aid flow
August 18, 2025 by Leave a Comment
This article is published in association with United Nations. Without an urgent and unrestricted flow of aid, Gaza’s already dire humanitarian crisis could deteriorate further, the UN warned on Friday. In his regular daily briefing, UN Spokesperson Stéphane Dujarric highlighted that ongoing delays, bottlenecks at holding points and interference in the loading process at crossing platforms […]Hunger and a heatwave plague the Gaza Strip
August 15, 2025 by 1 Comment
This article is published in association with United Nations. As hunger and malnutrition deepen in the Gaza Strip, humanitarian missions continue to face delays and impediments, while scorching temperatures are adding to the suffering of the population. Recently, Israel has denied fewer humanitarian movements but approved missions “still take hours to complete and teams have been […]Malnutrition deaths mark ‘latest in the war on children’ in Gaza: UNRWA chief
August 14, 2025 by Leave a Comment
This article is published in association with United Nations. At least 100 children in Gaza have died from malnutrition and hunger, prompting humanitarians to underscore the need to speed up medical evacuations from the enclave while also allowing more food to enter. These young deaths are “the latest in the war on children and childhood in […]Record starvation and malnutrition in Gaza; more West Bank displacement
August 13, 2025 by Leave a Comment
This article is published in association with United Nations. The United Nations continues to draw attention to the dire humanitarian situation in the Gaza Strip, where starvation and malnutrition are at the highest levels since hostilities began nearly three years ago. That warning comes from the UN World Food Programme (WFP) in a tweet posted on […]Gaza: Guterres urges probe into killing of journalists, as child malnutrition deaths rise
August 12, 2025 by Leave a Comment
This article is published in association with United Nations. UN Secretary-General António Guterres has condemned the killing of six Palestinian journalists in Gaza this past weekend, his Spokesman said on Monday. The reporters – five of whom worked for the Al Jazeera media network – were killed in a targeted Israeli strike in Gaza City the previous […]‘There is no military solution’ to end Israel-Palestine conflict, Security Council hears, as starvation stalks the Gaza Strip
August 11, 2025 by Leave a Comment
This article is published in association with United Nations. It’s essential to work towards a two-State solution to the Israel-Palestine conflict as the international community addresses the reality of starvation on the ground in Gaza, the Security Council heard on Sunday. Two top UN officials warned that the Israeli cabinet’s green light this week for a […]Israeli plan to take complete control of Gaza must stop now, says UN rights chief
August 8, 2025 by Leave a Comment
This article is published in association with United Nations. The UN’s top human rights official insisted on Friday that the Israeli Government must not pursue a complete takeover of the Gaza Strip. “A complete military takeover of the occupied Gaza Strip must be immediately halted,” insisted Volker Türk, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, after the […]Gaza: Hospitals ‘at near-total collapse’, staff overwhelmed by the injured
August 8, 2025 by Leave a Comment
This article is published in association with United Nations. Exhausted UN aid workers in Gaza on Thursday continued to report a lack of food across the enclave, while medical teams warned that hospitals are overwhelmed by a daily influx of injured people and close to “near-total collapse”. Meanwhile, UN agencies confirmed the deaths of three Palestinians […]Gaza: Alarm over Israeli move to deregister NGOs
August 7, 2025 by Leave a Comment
Aid agencies warned on Wednesday that most partner organizations providing vital relief across Gaza will likely have to shut down their operations within weeks, unless Israel withdraws its demand that they provide sensitive information about Palestinian employees. The development – which also applies to the occupied West Bank – is a result of the Israeli requirement […]Gaza crisis deepens as UN warns children are ‘dying before reaching hospital’
August 6, 2025 by Leave a Comment
This article is published in association with United Nations. Children in Gaza are dying not just from hunger, but from the total collapse of the systems meant to protect them, UN agencies warned on Tuesday. With 96 per cent of households lacking clean water, many malnourished children are not surviving long enough to receive hospital care. […]Gaza: As aid trucks enter, videos of Israeli hostages and attack on Red Crescent staffers spark outrage
August 5, 2025 by Leave a Comment
This article is published in association with United Nations. In Gaza, UN aid teams continue to report that Gaza is on the brink of famine with the UN human rights chief on Monday denouncing images of starvation inside the enclave as “an affront to our collective humanity.” Meanwhile, on Thursday and again on Saturday, Palestinian Islamic […]Hunger lines in Gaza: ‘Food is not enough’
August 4, 2025 by Leave a Comment
This article is published in association with United Nations. In western Gaza City, displaced people live crammed into cramped tents, and a human tragedy is unfolding across a landscape of hunger. Earning a living has become a daily struggle, and hundreds of men, women and children stand in endless queues, under the scorching sun, outside the […]How Von der Leyen gambled with a smile the entire EU economy on a humiliating for all Europeans 15% trade “deal” with Trump
July 31, 2025 by 2 Comments
Despite Von der Leyen et al. appearing all victorious after bowing to the Orange King last Sunday in Turnberry, Scotland, one thing is for sure, this is not a deal but a complete and utter surrender. The fact that the president of the European Commission went to Scotland to watch Trump play golf at his […]Gaza children starving despite Israeli ‘tactical pauses’, UN says
July 31, 2025 by Leave a Comment
This article is published in association with United Nations. Despite daily “tactical pauses” declared by Israeli forces, humanitarian conditions in Gaza remain catastrophic, with children starving, aid workers overwhelmed and fuel and water supplies critically low, UN humanitarians reported on Wednesday. Speaking at the regular news briefing in New York, UN Deputy Spokesperson Farhan Haq said […]In Gaza, mounting evidence of famine and widespread starvation
July 30, 2025 by Leave a Comment
This article is published in association with United Nations. “The worst-case scenario of famine is currently playing out in Gaza,” UN-backed food security experts said on Tuesday, in a call to action amid unrelenting conflict, mass displacement and the near-total collapse of essential services in the war-battered enclave. According to the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) […]Amid starvation in Gaza, Sudan, Guterres slams hunger ‘as a weapon of war’
July 29, 2025 by Leave a Comment
This article is published in association with United Nations. As starvation worsens in war-torn Gaza, UN agencies repeated warnings on Monday that Israel’s decision to support a “one-week scale-up” of aid is far from enough to reverse deadly malnutrition rates in the enclave. The development comes as UN Secretary-General António Guterres cautioned that conflict-driven hunger is […]Greener Hospitals: Transforming Healthcare Facilities for Environmental Sustainability
July 28, 2025 by 1 Comment
This article was exclusively written for The European Sting by Mr. Abdullah Humayun, a Final Year MBBS student of Federal Medical College, Islamabad. He is affiliated with the International Federation of Medical Students Associations (IFMSA), cordial partner of The Sting. The opinions expressed in this piece belong strictly to the writer and do not necessarily reflect IFMSA’s view […]UN warns of ‘catastrophic hunger’ in Gaza as Israel announces humanitarian pauses
July 28, 2025 by Leave a Comment
This article is published in association with United Nations. United Nations agencies welcomed on Sunday Israel’s pledge to implement daily humanitarian pauses in its military operations in Gaza, aimed at easing the flow of desperately needed aid into and across the devastated enclave. But as starvation tightens its grip and “children are dying before our eyes,” […]‘Famine silently begins to unfold’ in Gaza, UNRWA chief says
July 25, 2025 by Leave a Comment
This article is published in association with United Nations. “People in Gaza are neither dead nor alive, they are walking corpses.” Philippe Lazzarini, Commissioner-General for the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian Refugees (UNRWA), said that is what one of its workers told him on Thursday morning. This sobering comment comes amidst increasingly severe […]‘Catastrophic birth outcomes’ in Gaza threaten a whole generation, warns UN agency
July 24, 2025 by Leave a Comment
This article is published in association with United Nations. Pregnant women and newborns in Gaza face “catastrophic” conditions, including a dysfunctional healthcare system, psychological stress and food deprivation, the UN reproductive health agency UNFPA reported on Wednesday. In the first half of 2025, only 17,000 births were recorded, according to Gazan health authorities, representing a 41 […]‘Peace is a choice’: UN chief urges diplomacy as wars spread from Gaza to Ukraine
July 23, 2025 by Leave a Comment
This article is published in association with United Nations. Warning that the world is failing to uphold international law as wars stretch from Gaza to Ukraine, UN Secretary‑General António Guterres urged all nations to choose diplomacy over division and recommit to settling disputes peacefully. This is the only sustainable path to global security, he told ministers […]The hype of trade diversion in the era of Trumpism
July 21, 2025 by Leave a Comment
Even a first year university student in Economics can get that it is unnatural for trade to be stagnant. On the contrary, every single hour, day and so on trade is bound to go up and down depending on market demand and supply. Especially in times of fierce trade wars coming from the other side […]Humanitarians report more deaths, displacement and desperation in Gaza
July 21, 2025 by Leave a Comment
This article is published in association with United Nations. The continued onslaught and mass deprivation of people in the Gaza Strip is becoming normalised, the UN aid coordination office OCHA warned on Friday. “Every day brings more preventable deaths, displacement and desperation,” the agency said in a humanitarian update. On Friday, Israeli authorities issued another displacement order, […]Guterres deplores Israeli strike on Gaza church
July 18, 2025 by Leave a Comment
This article is published in association with United Nations. UN Secretary-General António Guterres has strongly condemned the Israeli strike on Thursday that hit the only Catholic church in the Gaza Strip. Three people were killed and at least 10 others were injured in the bombing of the Holy Family Church in Gaza City, according to media […]Gaza war: UN officials warn of unspeakable conditions as children bear the brunt
July 17, 2025 by Leave a Comment
This article is published in association with United Nations. Conditions in Gaza have reached an unspeakable level of devastation with children paying the highest price, top UN officials told the Security Council on Wednesday, warning of soaring child deaths, starvation and a shattered health system amid continuing bombardment and displacement. Tom Fletcher, the UN Emergency Relief […]Gaza: 875 people confirmed dead trying to source food in recent weeks
July 16, 2025 by Leave a Comment
This article is published in association with United Nations. Nearly 900 desperate and hungry Gazans have been killed in recent weeks trying to fetch food, with most deaths linked to private aid hubs run by the so-called Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF), the UN human rights office, OHCHR, said on Tuesday. “As of 13 July, we have recorded […]Instead of seizing the Rare momentum of the 50th anniversary of EU-China relations Brussels remembers now the Rare Earths thing of last April
July 14, 2025 by 1 Comment
It took 3 whole months for the European Parliament to discuss last April’s move of China to impose restrictions on the exports of important rare earth elements. While this had taken place 3 months ago as a Chinese response to the MAGA obscene tariff terror, the Parliament motivated by the “agony” to be productive moments […]Gazans dying in search of food, ‘starkest illustration’ of their desperation
July 14, 2025 by Leave a Comment
This article is published in association with United Nations. Humanitarian needs in the Gaza Strip “have never been higher” while the ability to assist the population has “never been more constrained,” a senior official with the World Food Programme (WFP) said on Friday in New York. “The fact that people are now dying every day trying […]UNICEF deplores ‘unconscionable’ killing of families lining up for aid in Gaza
July 11, 2025 by Leave a Comment
This article is published in association with United Nations. The head of the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has voiced deep dismay over the “unconscionable” killing of children during an aid distribution in the central Gaza Strip on Thursday. Catherine Russell said she was appalled by the reported killing of 15 Palestinians, including nine children and four […]US tariff delay deepens trade uncertainty, warns top UN economist
July 10, 2025 by Leave a Comment
This article is published in association with United Nations. A leading UN trade official warned on Tuesday that the United States’ decision to delay the end of a tariff suspension by a few weeks risks prolonging global uncertainty and undermining long-term investments and commercial contracts. While the initial 90-day pause on so-called “reciprocal” tariffs offered some […]Gaza: Hospitals rationing critical supplies, ambulances stalling
July 9, 2025 by Leave a Comment
This article is published in association with United Nations. UN humanitarians have warned that the catastrophic conditions in Gaza are worsening, as tents, schools, homes and medical facilities come under attack, and fuel supplies run out. What little fuel remains is powering essential operations, but it is running out fast, and there are virtually no additional […]UN chief ‘deeply saddened’ by devastating Texas floods as toll climbs past 80
July 8, 2025 by Leave a Comment
This article is published in association with United Nations. The United Nations Secretary-General has expressed deep sorrow over the deadly floods in Texas that reportedly killed at least 80 people over the holiday weekend, including more than two dozen children at a summer camp. In a statement issued on Monday by his spokesperson, António Guterres said […]UN chief condemns Russian strikes on Ukraine, warns of nuclear safety risk
July 7, 2025 by Leave a Comment
This article is published in association with United Nations. The UN Secretary-General on Saturday strongly condemned Russia’s latest wave of drone and missile attacks in Ukraine – reportedly the largest in over three years of war – warning that the strikes again jeopardised nuclear safety at the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant (ZNPP). In a statement issued […]
