News Monitor
The latest humanitarian news headlines from around the world. (Page 1 from 16)
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
UN aid teams on Friday highlighted the disturbing situation in Gazaâs makeshift hospitals, where premature babies cry for scant oxygen and medics attempt to save child survivors targeted by airstrikes in their tents and quadcopter victims reportedly shot while fetching bread.
ReliefWeb News
The logic imposed on people in Gaza is brutal and contradictory. The north has been declared hostile: those who remain are branded suspects. The south - so-called âsafe zonesâ - are also places of death.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
Nearly 42,000 people in Gaza are living with life-changing injuries from the ongoing conflict â including more than 10,000 children â as the health system collapses under relentless strain, the World Health Organization (WHO) warned on Thursday.
ReliefWeb News
The NRC urged global leaders to press Israel and Hamas for an immediate and permanent ceasefire, secure the release of hostages and Palestinian detainees, and allow agencies to operate freely in Gaza.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
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 Childrenâs Fund (UNICEF) has now died. Her name was Jana and she was nine years old.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
The UN Secretary-General AntĂłnio Guterres has welcomed Mondayâs Gaza peace deal proposal from US President Donald Trump, urging âall partiesâ to commit to it.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
The UN Security Council is meeting to discuss the Middle East crisis and protection of civilians in conflict, as speculation grows of a potential deal to end the war in Gaza with US President Donald Trump and Israeli premier Benjamin Netanyahu meeting in the White House for talks on Monday. Follow live coverage from the council chamber in New York below; UN News app users can go here.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
As Israeli military operations continue in Gaza City, deadly strikes on displaced Palestinians â including people collecting firewood for cooking â raise further concerns about attacks on civilians, the UN human rights office, OHCHR, said in a statement on Monday.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
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.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
While the Israeli militaryâs assault on Gaza City ramps up, conditions in the south of the war-torn enclave are so cramped that displaced and starving Gazans are sleeping on rubble-strewn open ground, UN aid teams said on Thursday.
ReliefWeb News
Children in Gaza continue to bear the brunt of war, following nearly two years of Israeli bombardment. The IRC reports a 48 percent increase in child protection cases in recent weeks.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
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.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
Humanitarian aid in Gaza must be protected, the UN Childrenâs Fund (UNICEF) said on Friday, following the theft of therapeutic food critical for saving thousands of young lives from malnutrition as famine spreads.
ReliefWeb News
Malnourished children and critically ill patients are among the thousands forced to walk south for many hours as Israelâs assault intensifies, with some in wheelbarrows as they can barely stand.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
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.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
The United States vetoed a draft resolution in the Security Council on Thursday put forward by its 10 non-permanent members demanding an immediate, unconditional and permanent ceasefire in Gaza â and the immediate release of all hostages. Against the backdrop of rising famine it also demanded the lifting of Israeli restrictions on aid, calling on the occupying power to ensure safe and unhindered distribution to all in need. News app users can follow our live meetings coverage by going here.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
The last remaining lifelines for civilians in Gaza City are collapsing as Israel ramps up military operations, the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said on Thursday.
ReliefWeb News
Distributions in Gaza average 28 trucks a day, not enough for two million people, many of whom have gone weeks without help. We are blocked from reaching those in need, including our starved teams.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
As bombs continue to fall on Gaza City as part of Israelâs intensifying military operation, families with starving children are being pushed southwards from one âhellscapeâ to another, the UN Childrenâs Fund (UNICEF) said on Tuesday.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
Amid reports of intensifying bombardment in Gaza City overnight, the Middle East crisis took centre stage at the UN on Tuesday, starting at the global body's Geneva headquarters, where Israel rejected allegations of genocide by an international panel of independent human rights investigators. The development came ahead of an urgent debate at the Human Rights Council prompted by Israeli strikes on Hamas political leadership last week in Doha. UN News app users can follow live here.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
Senior independent rights investigators appointed by the Human Rights Council alleged on Tuesday that Israelâs actions in Gaza constitute genocide, a charge flatly rejected by Tel Aviv.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
The United Nations has condemned the deadly Israeli military offensive in Gaza City that occurred this past weekend, Spokesperson Stéphane Dujarric said on Monday.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
In the Gaza Strip, hope may be all that is left but it is not enough to keep people alive, a veteran humanitarian said on Friday, calling for more action to end the conflict and stop the bloodshed.
ReliefWeb News
The percentage of children identified as acutely malnourished across Gaza increased to 13.5% in August from 8.3% in July. In Gaza City, the percentage admitted with malnutrition was even higher.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
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 News: Humanitarian Aid
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.
ReliefWeb News
There is a narrow window - until end-September - to prevent famine from spreading to Deir al Balah and Khan Younis. That window is closing fast ... Let aid in - unimpeded and at the scale we can deliver.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
The narrow window to prevent the spread of famine from northern Gaza to other parts of the Strip is closing fast, the UN Emergency Relief Coordinator said on Sunday.
ReliefWeb News
The latest data released by the Government Media Office in Gaza showed at least 20,000 children - about 2 per cent of Gazaâs child population - have been killed since October 2023.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
The UN Childrenâs Fund (UNICEF) called on Thursday for the international community to do everything possible to prevent catastrophe in Gaza City as Israel ramps up military operations ahead of a planned full takeover.