News Monitor

The latest food security assessment on Gaza confirms WFP concerns about the ongoing levels of severe hunger across the Gaza Strip and shows the critical importance of sustained access to all areas.

It is nearly impossible to collect and verify information under current conditions but at least 17,000 children are believed unaccompanied and separated and 4,000 are likely missing under rubble.

Desperate shortages of essentials have left the enclave’s most vulnerable struggling to carry on amid stifling heat, heavy fighting, disease spread and a breakdown in law and order, UN warned.

OHCHR published an assessment on six emblematic attacks by the Israeli Defense Forces in Gaza last year that led to high numbers of civilian fatalities and widespread destruction of civilian objects.

The environmental impacts of the war in Gaza are unprecedented, states UNEP, exposing the community to rapidly growing soil, water and air pollution and risks of irreversible damage to ecosystems.

As fighting escalates in the south and centre of Gaza, the toll on civilians is devastating, and the continued hostile operating environment make it near-impossible to deliver humanitarian food aid.

Heavy shelling reported in the so-called safe zone of Al-Mawasi in southern Gaza on Thursday came despite the ongoing push for a ceasefire and as UN health agency reported 32 deaths from malnutrition.

Adopted by a large majority with 14 votes in favour and Russia abstaining, the resolution also urges both parties to fully implement the terms of the proposal “without delay and without condition.”

The war has caused unprecedented devastation to the Palestinian labour market and the wider economy, according to new data and analysis by the ILO and the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics.

"We need to ... shift from responding to crises after they occur to more proactive approaches, prevention and resilience building to help vulnerable communities cope with upcoming shocks" - FAO chief.