News Monitor
The latest humanitarian news headlines from around the world. (Page 12 from 19)
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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.
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Since the ceasefire began in Gaza on 19 January, âunparalleled progressâ 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.
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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 â nearly all those it aimed to reach.
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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.
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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.
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Lifesaving aid continued to reach Gaza on Thursday while UN humanitarians warned that needs remain enormous after 15 months of constant Israeli bombardment.
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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.
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A return to war in Gaza must be avoided at all costs, UN Secretary-General AntĂłnio Guterres insisted on Tuesday, amid fears that the three-week-old ceasefire agreement between Hamas fighters and Israel is about to end.
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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.
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The UN Secretary-General has instructed agencies, funds and programmes to pause all activities in Saâada governorate in Yemen for security reasons, the global body said on Monday.
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The humanitarian communityâs 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.
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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.
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UN Secretary-General AntĂłnio Guterres urged the international community to continue pushing for a full ceasefire and the release of all hostages in Gaza, and âto avoid any form of ethnic cleansingâ in the enclave, in a speech in New York on Wednesday.
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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.
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The UN Humanitarian Coordinator in Sudan has again urged warring parties to stop targeting civilians.
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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.
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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 âfor their sheer survivalâ, a day after the Israeli parliament ban on its activities entered into force.
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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 Childrenâs Fund (UNICEF) reported on Thursday.
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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 Childrenâs 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.
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In a rare moment of cautious optimism, UN Emergency Relief Coordinator Tom Fletcher addressed the Security Council on the dire humanitarian situation in Gaza on Thursday, emphasizing the plight of children who have borne the brunt of the conflict.
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The UN and partners are âseizing every opportunityâ provided by the ceasefire in the Gaza Strip to support civilians, providing a surge in aid alongside storage capacity, repair work, lifesaving services and damage assessments.
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Aid is entering Gaza âat scaleâ in line with the ceasefire agreement that has seen Israeli hostages and Palestinian prisoners released and families reunited, but massive needs remain across the devastated enclave, UN humanitarians said on Tuesday.
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Country: occupied Palestinian territory
Source: World Food Programme
The needs in Gaza are immense. Recovery will require a full-scale humanitarian response with all agencies coming together, including UNRWA, to provide lifesaving assistance to two million people.
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Secretary-General AntĂłnio Guterres welcomed the start on Sunday of the ceasefire and hostage release in Gaza, as UN humanitarian convoys brought in urgently needed food aid to begin pulling the war-ravaged territory back from starvation.
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Amid reports that Israelâs security cabinet has given the green light to a ceasefire deal with Hamas, the UN World Health Organization (WHO) expressed cautious optimism on Friday over the potentially major boost to aid relief in the devastated enclave.
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In the wake of Wednesdayâs announcement of a ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas due to come into effect on Sunday, displaced Gazans â ground down by 15 months of devastating conflict â have told UN News they hope an end to their suffering is in sight.
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Country: occupied Palestinian territory
Source: Save the Children
If implemented, the pause in hostilities between Israel and Hamas will bring vital reprieve. But the NGO warns that a definitive ceasefire is needed as children still face hunger and disease.