News Monitor
The latest humanitarian news headlines from around the world. (Page 16 from 16)
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
Large parts of the city of Rafah are now a “ghost town”, with UN humanitarians reporting on Tuesday that some 450,000 Gazans have been forcibly displaced from the southernmost city by Israeli evacuation orders in the last week.
ReliefWeb Headlines
Country: occupied Palestinian territory
Source: International Committee of the Red Cross
Since the beginning of hostilities, PRCS staff and volunteers have continued to courageously provide emergency medical services to communities in Gaza, amidst unacceptably high levels of loss.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
Nearly 360,000 people have fled Rafah in the last week amid continuing Israeli bombardment that has crippled humanitarian aid deliveries and is believed to have killed another UN aid worker, the UN agency for Palestinian refugees, UNRWA, said on Monday.
ReliefWeb Headlines
Country: occupied Palestinian territory
Source: UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights
"I can see no way that the latest evacuation orders, much less a full assault, in an area with an extremely dense presence of civilians, can be reconciled with the binding requirements of IHL."
ReliefWeb Headlines
Country: occupied Palestinian territory
Source: UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights
"I can see no way that the latest evacuation orders, much less a full assault, in an area with an extremely dense presence of civilians, can be reconciled with the binding requirements of IHL."
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
The decision by Israel to reopen the only functional commercial crossing point into Gaza which has been closed to most deliveries for weeks, has been welcomed by the United Nations Secretary-General.
‘Well-being of two million’ in Gaza at stake as emergency fuel runs dry: UN humanitarian coordinator
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
To avert hospital closures and raw sewage overflowing onto the streets of Gaza, the United Nations Humanitarian Coordinator on Wednesday called on Israeli authorities to allow UN-purchased emergency fuel back across the border of the Palestinian enclave.