This article is published in association with United Nations. The head of the World Health Organization (WHO) renewed his call for a ceasefire in Gaza following two deadly Israeli air strikes on the Nasser Hospital in the southern Strip on Monday. At least 20 people were killed, including four health workers and five journalists, WHO Director-General […]Gaza: UN calls for probe following deadly strikes on Nasser Hospital
August 26, 2025 by Leave a Comment
This article is published in association with United Nations. The head of the World Health Organization (WHO) renewed his call for a ceasefire in Gaza following two deadly Israeli air strikes on the Nasser Hospital in the southern Strip on Monday. At least 20 people were killed, including four health workers and five journalists, WHO Director-General […]Driven by hunger in Gaza, amputees are part of the collateral damage
August 25, 2025 by Leave a Comment
This article is published in association with United Nations. One of the many ugly consequences of wars and conflict is injuries leading to a loss of limbs. Gaza, which now has the highest number of child amputees per capital anywhere in the world, is no exception. “I was going to buy falafel,” says Mohammed Hassan. “On […]Amid massive destruction of Gaza City, UN chief renews ceasefire call
August 22, 2025 by Leave a Comment
This article is published in association with United Nations. With intensifying Israeli activity in and around Gaza City reportedly continuing on Thursday, UN chief António Guterres renewed his urgent call for a ceasefire, as Palestinians fled intense airstrikes, artillery shelling and gunfire. “It is vital to reach immediately a ceasefire in Gaza,” the Secretary-General told reporters on the sidelines of the Ninth […]Gaza: Aid insufficient to avert ‘widespread starvation’ as Israeli military ramp-up forces more people to flee
August 20, 2025 by Leave a Comment
This article is published in association with United Nations. The small trickle of aid entering Gaza is totally insufficient to alleviate starvation and displacement in the Strip, UN humanitarians said on Tuesday. “The risk of starvation is everywhere in Gaza,” UN Human Rights Office spokesperson Thameen Al-Kheetan told reporters in Geneva. “This is a direct result […]More young lives lost in Ukraine, as UN chief repeats call for a ‘just, comprehensive and sustainable peace’
August 19, 2025 by Leave a Comment
This article is published in association with United Nations. Russian drone strikes on Ukraine overnight including in the cities of Kharkiv and Zaporizhzhia reportedly killed at least 14 people – including three children. The development came as Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and a group of European leaders arrived in Washington on Monday to meet President Donald […]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: 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 […]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 […]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 […]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 […]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 […]UN chief ‘appalled’ by worsening Gaza crisis as civilians face displacement, aid blockades
July 4, 2025 by Leave a Comment
This article is published in association with United Nations. The UN Secretary-General is “appalled” by the deepening humanitarian crisis in Gaza, as civilians face yet another wave of mass displacement with few safe places to go. Multiple attacks in recent days have killed and injured scores of Palestinians at sites hosting displaced people and others attempting […]Gaza: Access to key water facility in Khan Younis disrupted, UN reports
July 3, 2025 by 1 Comment
This article is published in association with United Nations. A key water reservoir serving Khan Younis in southern Gaza has become inaccessible following new Israeli displacement orders, sparking fears of a collapse in the city’s water distribution network and worsening already dire humanitarian conditions, the United Nations warned on Wednesday. According to the UN Office for […]Gaza: Families deprived of the means for survival, humanitarians warn
July 2, 2025 by Leave a Comment
This article is published in association with United Nations. The United Nations on Tuesday reported that humanitarian operations in Gaza are facing escalating strain, as ongoing fuel shortages, access restrictions and military activity continue to undermine aid delivery and essential services. “As humanitarian assistance and basic services dwindle, people in Gaza have been increasingly deprived of […]Gaza: UN urges Israel to allow fuel into Strip
July 1, 2025 by Leave a Comment
This article is published in association with United Nations. The crisis in Gaza is worsening, UN humanitarians warned on Monday, as ongoing hostilities and access restrictions drive displaced communities deeper into despair. “Amid ongoing Israeli military operations, scores of people have reportedly been killed and injured, including while waiting for food,” the UN Office for the […]Gaza: Health system crumbles amid growing desperation over food, fuel
June 30, 2025 by Leave a Comment
This article is published in association with United Nations. The first delivery earlier this week of urgently needed medical goods to enter Gaza in months will provide scant relief to the enclave’s people, who continue to be shot and killed in their search for food, the UN World Health Organization (WHO) said on Friday. “Definitely, people […]‘Our kids cry for food’: Most Gaza families survive on one meal a day
June 27, 2025 by 1 Comment
This article is published in association with United Nations. Most families in the Gaza Strip are surviving on one meal a day and one-third go entire days without eating as a result of Israel’s continued bombardment of the enclave, according to the UN World Food Programme (WFP) and partners. The meals which families are able to […]
