News Monitor
The latest humanitarian news headlines from around the world. (Page 11 from 19)
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
Following 11 days of an Israeli aid blockade in Gaza, ācrucial progressā made during the first six weeks of the ceasefire between Israeli forces and Hamas militants ācontinues to unravelā, said UN Spokesperson StĆ©phane Dujarric on Wednesday.
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Aid had substantially increased over the course of the ceasefire, but remains a drop in the ocean compared to immense needs on the ground. A commitment to rebuilding essential services is vital.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
Severe water shortages in Gaza have reached critical levels with tens of thousands impacted by Israeli power cuts to the enclave, the UN Childrenās Fund (UNICEF) warned on Monday.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
The unilateral halt to aid deliveries entering Gaza announced by the Israeli authorities on Sunday has left Gazans afraid of a return to violence and lifesaving healthcare services under threat, the UN Childrenās Fund, UNICEF, has warned.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
UN humanitarians warned on Tuesday that the continued closure of key border crossings into Gaza is putting civilian lives at risk, just as they begin to recover from months of war, deprivation and hunger.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
Israelās move to prevent all aid from entering the Gaza Strip after Hamas reportedly refused to accept a plan to continue with phase one of the fragile ceasefire has had an immediate impact, including a 100-fold increase in the price of flour and vegetables.
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The closure of all border crossings for the transportation of aid into Gaza Strip represents a severe risk to the millions of people who have been struggling to survive for 16 months, IFRC warns.
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Within four weeks of the ceasefire, WFP delivered āmore food aid than we thought possibleā, doubling the average for the last months of 2024, with more than 30,000MT, reaching one million people.
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During this round, an additional 40,000 children were vaccinated as compared to the previous two rounds conducted in September and October 2024, after poliovirus was detected in the Gaza Strip.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
Since the ceasefire began in Gaza on 19 January, āunparalleled progressā has been made in providing desperately needed aid to families across the devastated enclave, said UN agency for Palestine refugees, UNRWA, on Thursday.
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More than 50 people, including children, have been reported killed since the IDF operation started five weeks ago. Destruction of infrastructure, bulldozing roads and access restrictions are common.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
UN humanitarians reported on Tuesday that aid workers in Gaza supporting local health authorities have now managed to vaccinate nearly 550,000 children under 10 ā nearly all those it aimed to reach.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
Aid operations in the Gaza Strip continue to reach people from north to south with critical assistance, including cash, the UN humanitarian affairs office, OCHA, said on Friday.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
As the UN and partners continue to deliver life-saving assistance across the Gaza Strip, the scale of needs remains overwhelming, requiring urgent and sustained support, UN aid coordination office OCHA said on Monday.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
Lifesaving aid continued to reach Gaza on Thursday while UN humanitarians warned that needs remain enormous after 15 months of constant Israeli bombardment.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
The UN is leading a surge of humanitarian relief and preparing for the monumental task of rebuilding Gaza, as a fragile ceasefire holds but tensions loom over a potential resumption of fighting.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
A return to war in Gaza must be avoided at all costs, UN Secretary-General AntĆ³nio Guterres insisted on Tuesday, amid fears that the three-week-old ceasefire agreement between Hamas fighters and Israel is about to end.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
As the Israeli military completed its withdrawal at the weekend from a key security corridor in Gaza that had cut the enclave in two, UN humanitarians issued a fresh appeal for an end to all aid restrictions which continue to prevent the delivery of lifesaving relief.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
The UN Secretary-General has instructed agencies, funds and programmes to pause all activities in Saāada governorate in Yemen for security reasons, the global body said on Monday.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
The humanitarian communityās plan to flood Gaza with lifesaving aid passed an important milestone on Thursday with the news that more than 10,000 relief lorries have entered the enclave since the ceasefire began on 19 January.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
UN Secretary-General AntĆ³nio Guterres urged the international community to continue pushing for a full ceasefire and the release of all hostages in Gaza, and āto avoid any form of ethnic cleansingā in the enclave, in a speech in New York on Wednesday.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
Over one million people in the Gaza Strip have received food assistance since the ceasefire between Israel and Hamas took effect nearly three weeks ago, UN aid coordination office OCHA said in an update on Wednesday.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
Some 30,000 residents from Jenin refugee camp in the occupied West Bank have fled their homes after large swathes of it were destroyed in a series of controlled detonations by the Israeli security forces (ISF), the UN agency for Palestine refugees (UNRWA) said on Tuesday.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
The UN Humanitarian Coordinator in Sudan has again urged warring parties to stop targeting civilians.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
Escalating hostilities in the occupied West Bank are putting the fragile ceasefire in Gaza at risk, the UN agency that assists Palestine refugees, UNRWA, warned in a statement on Monday.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
The largest UN agency in the Occupied Palestinian Territories, UNRWA, said on Friday that its staff are still providing aid to the people of Gaza and the West Bank including East Jerusalem who depend on them āfor their sheer survivalā, a day after the Israeli parliament ban on its activities entered into force.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
People continue to stream back into Gaza City in the wake of the temporary ceasefire across the Strip, with some 500,000 reportedly returning so far, the UN Childrenās Fund (UNICEF) reported on Thursday.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
As more than 423,000 displaced Palestinians return to their homes in northern Gaza following the opening of key roads, UN agencies are scaling up humanitarian aid and addressing the growing risks posed by unexploded ordnance such as landmines (UXO).
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Country: occupied Palestinian territory
Source: UN Security Council
Tom Fletcher pointed to the United Nations Childrenās Fund finding that one million children need mental health and psychosocial support for depression, anxiety and suicidal thoughts.
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Country: occupied Palestinian territory
Source: International Organization for Migration
IOM, in coordination with partners, has dispatched its first convoy trucks carrying shelter material, and WASH supplies from Amman into the Gaza Strip as the ceasefire enters its fifth day.