UN says Gaza crisis remains dire, children hardest hit

© WFP/Maxime Le Lijour Much of Gaza City is inhabitable.

This article is published in association with United Nations. Despite a modest increase in humanitarian assistance, the situation in Gaza remains “dire”, with children among the hardest hit by shortages of shelter, basic services and education, the United Nations said on Tuesday. Briefing reporters in New York, UN Spokesperson Stéphane Dujarric described the situation as still “dire” […]

Gaza aid lifelines under strain as winter worsens

This article is published in association with United Nations.

Humanitarian partners in the Gaza Strip are struggling to reach hundreds of thousands of vulnerable people as winter storms batter damaged homes and temporary shelters. Since the fragile October ceasefire began as phase one of the US-led peace plan, thousands of tents and hundreds of thousands of tarpaulins have been distributed.  Yet partners estimate that […]

Winter aid delivery continues in Gaza

UN News As rain falls over Gaza, children take refuge beneath a disabled fishing boat, one of the few places offering shelter in the overcrowded displacement area.

This article is published in association with United Nations. Despite the ceasefire in the Gaza Strip, humanitarians continue to receive reports of airstrikes, shelling and gunfire in all five governorates, the United Nations said on Monday.  This has resulted in casualties and disruptions to aid operations over the past 24 hours, UN Spokesperson Stéphane Dujarric told journalists at Headquarters, in New […]

World News in Brief: Gaza winter storm, $7 billion UNICEF appeal, support for emergency response fund

World News in Brief: Gaza winter storm, $7 billion UNICEF appeal, support for emergency response fund

This article is published in association with United Nations. As another winter storm hits the Gaza Strip, low temperatures and rains are putting the lives of newborns and other vulnerable groups at risk, the UN aid coordination office, OCHA, said on Wednesday.  Following two years of war, most of Gaza’s roughly two million residents are living in makeshift shelters. Humanitarians […]

Peace proves relative in Gaza with no let-up in deadly airstrikes

Peace proves relative in Gaza with no let-up in deadly airstrikes

This article is published in association with United Nations. In Gaza, as airstrikes, shelling and gunfire continued to kill and maim Palestinians, UN human rights chief Volker Türk on Wednesday rejected suggestions by the Israeli military that the so-called “Yellow Line” of concrete blocks it has erected inside the enclave represented a new border. “The Security […]

A fragile peace, a harsh winter: Gaza’s families struggle to rebuild

A fragile peace, a harsh winter: Gaza’s families struggle to rebuild

This article is published in association with United Nations. Nearly two months after the latest ceasefire in the Gaza Strip on 10 October, a fragile calm has brought much-needed relief to families who have endured unimaginable suffering and repeated displacement. For months on end, thousands of families remain without a roof over their heads, laying beneath […]

Aid access and hospital operations remain constrained in Gaza

This article is published in association with United Nations. Aid deliveries into Gaza continue to face difficulties as fighting continues across the territory, with the UN warning that most hospitals are only partially functioning and more than 16,500 patients still require urgent medical evacuation. Briefing reporters in New York on Wednesday, UN Spokesperson Stéphane Dujarric said […]

UN Security Council authorizes temporary international force for Gaza

This article is published in association with United Nations. The UN Security Council adopted a resolution on Monday that endorses a peace plan for Gaza put forward by United States President Donald Trump and a temporary international force in the enclave following two years of war.  Resolution 2803 (2025) received 13 votes in favour, and none […]

Restoring dignity to Gaza: the cleanup begins

This article is published in association with United Nations. A large-scale campaign under the slogan “We Will Rebuild Gaza” was launched on Saturday in Gaza City, with the participation of local organisations and United Nations agencies, in an effort to begin cleaning operations and removing debris left by the war. Dozens of participants — including UN […]

Gaza: War has made children violent, sad and bereft

This article is published in association with United Nations. More than nine in 10 children in Gaza are displaying signs of aggressive behaviour linked to more than two years of war between Hamas and Israel, welfare agencies have reported.  Issuing a warning that the children’s sense of stability and security has been eroded as key everyday […]

Israel has rejected over 100 aid requests since Gaza ceasefire, UN says

This article is published in association with United Nations. The United Nations said on Thursday that Israeli authorities have rejected more than 100 requests to bring relief materials into Gaza since the ceasefire began nearly a month ago. “Our partners report that since the ceasefire, the Israeli authorities have rejected 107 requests for the entry of […]

UN chief condemns Gaza killings, urges full respect for ceasefire

This article is published in association with United Nations. The UN Secretary-General has strongly condemned the killing of civilians, including children, in Israeli airstrikes across Gaza overnight into Wednesday, calling for all parties to uphold their commitments to the fragile ceasefire “The Secretary-General strongly condemns the killings due to Israeli airstrikes of civilians in Gaza yesterday, […]

Security Council LIVE: Gaza ceasefire, aid crisis dominates agenda as ambassadors meet on the Middle East

This article is published in association with United Nations. The UN Security Council is meeting in New York to debate the Middle East. The session comes amid faltering progress on the fragile Gaza ceasefire and mounting humanitarian needs after two years of war, with famine still looming in parts of the territory. Ambassadors will likely discuss yesterday’s ICJ […]

Gaza: Aid efforts continue as UN teams start clearing up to 60 million tonnes of debris

This article is published in association with United Nations. The UN on Monday said it was encouraged by renewed Gaza ceasefire commitments, warning that recent violence risked undermining fragile progress, as recovery efforts – including a large-scale rubble removal project – slowly gain momentum across the war-ravaged enclave. “We are encouraged that the parties have reaffirmed […]

Gaza: UN pushes to scale up aid deliveries

This article is published in association with United Nations. As a fragile ceasefire holds in the Gaza Strip, UN aid teams are intensifying efforts to deliver urgently needed assistance.  On Thursday, UN Emergency Relief Coordinator Tom Fletcher made his way to Rafah on the southern Gaza border, from the Egyptian capital Cairo, describing the main Rafah […]

UN rights chief underlines need for a permanent ceasefire and accountability in Gaza

This article is published in association with United Nations. Recovery in Gaza must also include accountability for violations, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights said on Wednesday. In presenting his annual report to the Third Committee of the General Assembly, Volker Türk highlighted that surveys consistently show that people worldwide overwhelmingly support the values that […]

Gaza: $70 billion needed to rebuild shattered enclave, says UN

This article is published in association with United Nations. Around $70 billion will be needed to reconstruct Gaza and make it safe after two years of war, UN development experts said on Tuesday, while aid agencies reported that far too little aid is getting in to meet the needs of desperate Palestinians. At just 41 kilometres […]

UN releases $11 million for Gaza aid as ceasefire, hostage release bring ‘fragile hope’

This article is published in association with United Nations. The UN is stepping up its emergency response in Gaza, releasing $11 million from its Central Emergency Response Fund (CERF) to meet urgent needs before winter – a move that underscores both the expanding humanitarian effort and the funding shortfall threatening to stall it. The allocation, announced […]

Jubilation in Gaza as news of possible ceasefire deal sinks in

This article is published in association with United Nations. As Gazans and Israelis celebrated the news that a potential ceasefire deal had been reached between the Hamas political leadership and Israel, UN aid agencies on Thursday underscored their readiness to inundate the famine-hit enclave with relief supplies, while urging the immediate release of all hostages. “There […]

Release the hostages in Gaza ‘unconditionally and immediately’: Guterres

This article is published in association with United Nations. The UN Secretary-General António Guterres marked two years since the Hamas-led terror attacks on southern Israel by reiterating his long-standing call for the unconditional and immediate release of the hostages still being held there. “The attackers brutally killed more than 1,250 Israelis and foreign nationals,” he reminded in […]

Gaza: Major UN aid operation ‘ready to go’ if agreement is reached on US peace plan

This article is published in association with United Nations. UN aid teams in Gaza are “ready to go” with thousands of tonnes of supplies on standby to alleviate famine, widespread hunger and malnutrition, in the event of agreement being reached over the US peace plan in the coming days. That’s according to UN Spokesperson Stéphane Dujarric, […]

The world is failing Gaza’s starving children, aid teams war

This article is published in association with United Nations. As Israeli forces continued their push to take full control of Gaza City on Wednesday, reports emerged that another skeletal child whose plight was highlighted by the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has now died. Her name was Jana and she was nine years old. © UNICEF/Rawan Eleyan […]

Gaza: Guterres calls for ‘all parties’ to commit to US peace plan, as UN agencies stress urgent ceasefire need

This article is published in association with United Nations. The UN Secretary-General António Guterres has welcomed Monday’s Gaza peace deal proposal from US President Donald Trump, urging “all parties” to commit to it. Hamas has yet to respond to Washington’s 20-point peace plan, which has the backing of Israel and the wider international community. Hamas leadership […]

Gaza: UN rights office deplores deadly strikes on Palestinians gathering firewood

This article is published in association with United Nations. As Israeli military operations continue in Gaza City, deadly strikes on displaced Palestinians – including people collecting firewood for cooking – raise further concerns about attacks on civilians, the UN human rights office, OHCHR, said in a statement on Monday.  OHCHR in the Occupied Palestinian Territory expressed […]

Gaza: Four more hospitals shut amid ongoing Israeli offensive

This article is published in association with United Nations. The escalating Israeli military offensive in Gaza City continues to overwhelm medical professionals there, with four more hospitals forced to shut down this month alone in the north of the war-torn enclave, the UN World Health Organization (WHO) said on Friday. “This brings the total functioning hospitals […]

Gaza: UN agencies warn of escalating attacks, mass displacement and famine

This article is published in association with United Nations. UN agencies on Wednesday warned that civilians in the devastated Gaza Strip are facing escalating attacks, more mass displacement and worsening hunger. The UN human rights office in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (OHCHR) says Israeli military tactics in Gaza City – including strikes on homes and schools – are […]

Offensive shutters nearly half of all malnutrition centres in and around Gaza City

This article is published in association with United Nations. Hostilities between Israeli forces and Hamas have led to the shuttering of almost half of all malnutrition centres in and around Gaza City, the northern area of the Strip where famine was declared a month ago. That’s according to the UN humanitarian aid coordination office, OCHA, and […]

Security Council: US votes against resolution on Gaza ceasefire

Statement by the European Commission on the U.S. decision to impose travel restrictions on certain EU individuals

This article is published in association with United Nations. The United States once again vetoed a UN resolution demanding an immediate, unconditional and permanent ceasefire in the Gaza Strip, following a vote in the Security Council on Thursday.  The negative vote was cast as the 15-member Council held its 10,000th meeting against the backdrop of famine […]

Gaza: Top independent rights probe alleges Israel committed genocide

This article is published in association with United Nations. Senior independent rights investigators appointed by the Human Rights Council alleged on Tuesday that Israel’s actions in Gaza constitute genocide, a charge flatly rejected by Tel Aviv. In a new report published against the backdrop of intensifying Israeli military operations in Gaza City, the UN Independent International […]

Parliament pushes for Gaza aid, the hostages’ release and justice 

This article is brought to you in association with the European Parliament. Parliament expresses grave alarm at Gaza’s “catastrophic” humanitarian crisis and calls for urgent EU action, in a resolution adopted on Thursday. The Parliament strongly condemns the Israeli government’s obstruction of humanitarian aid, which is engineering a famine in Northern Gaza, and calls for all […]

Gaza City: Daily bombardment, more displacement amid escalating military offensive

This article is published in association with United Nations. As the Israeli offensive intensifies in Gaza City, nearly one million people estimated to be living there face daily bombardment and further displacement, the UN reported on Thursday.  UN Spokesperson Stéphane Dujarric said people are once again on the move after Israel placed the entire city under […]

Gaza: Ceasefire urgently needed as civilians left with ‘no safe place’ to go

This article is published in association with United Nations. The UN and humanitarian partners warned on Wednesday that nearly one million civilians in Gaza City who have been told to leave by the Israeli military have nowhere safe to go. “We are witnessing a dangerous escalation in Gaza City, where Israeli forces have stepped up their […]

State of the EU: Security, Ukraine, Gaza, Competitiveness, EU-US trade  

This article is brought to you in association with the European Parliament. In the annual State of the European Union debate, MEPs quizzed President von der Leyen on the Commission’s work since the beginning of its new mandate and its upcoming plans. Opening the debate, EP President Roberta Metsola said: “In these unprecedented times, we need […]

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