News Monitor
The latest humanitarian news headlines from around the world. (Page 18 from 18)
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
With no let up in reported street battles and Israeli bombardment across Gaza on Thursday, UN humanitarians warned that the flow of vital lifesaving aid into the enclave has fallen by more than two thirds since the Israeli military stepped up its campaign in Rafah and seized the key aid conduit.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
As people in Haiti continue to deal with growing hunger, UN agencies are striving to deliver goods and services to populations in need.
ReliefWeb Headlines
Country: occupied Palestinian territory
Source: UN News Centre
"We have distributed an enormous amount of essential medical supplies, but it's not enough. I mean, this is such an overwhelming disaster, itâs not enough,â said Dr. Rik Peeperkorn of WHO Palestine.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
Vital medical supplies are fast running out in Gazaâs remaining hospitals, the UN health agency warned on Wednesday, amid reports of continuing Israeli bombing and hostilities in the enclave.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
UN agencies on Tuesday reiterated their call for an urgent ceasefire and humanitarian access in Gaza following Israeli air strikes on Sunday that hit a camp for displaced Palestinians in Rafah, killing 45 people, according to the Hamas-run Ministry of Health.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
Senior UN officials have condemned Israeli air strikes on Sunday that hit a camp for displaced people in Rafah, southern Gaza, reportedly claiming over 35 Palestinian lives, including women and children.
ReliefWeb Headlines
Country: occupied Palestinian territory
Source: UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights
The IDF must cease all attacks on or in the vicinity of hospitals and must ensure their protected status is respected and that hospitals are able to receive essential medical equipment and medicine.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
Global uproar calling for an end to the Israeli incursion in Rafah âhas grown too loud to ignoreâ, UN Humanitarian Affairs Coordinator Martin Griffiths said on Friday, in a fresh appeal for a ceasefire in Gaza and the release of all hostages.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
Living conditions in Gaza continue to deteriorate, with reports of an increase in diarrhoea and suspected cases of Hepatitis A, UN humanitarians warned on Thursday.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
Hostilities across Gaza reportedly continued on Wednesday, fuelling already alarming aid access problems and dire food insecurity as the main entrance routes for relief convoys remained closed or too dangerous to access, UN aid workers warned.
ReliefWeb Headlines
Country: occupied Palestinian territory
Sources: International Rescue Committee, Medical Aid for Palestinians
Lack of clean water and sanitation has increased acute watery diarrhea among under-fives, while other water-borne diseases such as Hepatitis are proliferating among those who cannot get clean water.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
As bombardments by the Israeli military reportedly continued overnight across Gaza, along with ground incursions and heavy fighting, the head of the UN World Health Organization (WHO) issued an alert on Tuesday for staff and patients at besieged Al-Awda Hospital in the north of the enclave.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
Gaza stands at âyet another precipice of further catastropheâ as the latest round of hostage negotiations in Cairo failed to reach an agreement, a senior UN official warned the Security Council on Monday.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
Roughly 800,000 people have been forced to flee Rafah since Israel launched a military operation in the area on 6 May, the head of UN Palestine refugee agency UNRWA said on Saturday in a renewed appeal for greater protection of civilians in Gaza, safe humanitarian access and, ultimately, a ceasefire.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
Trucks carrying desperately needed aid into Gaza have started moving ashore on the temporary floating dock built by the United States military, but this is not enough to meet the needs of civilians, UN humanitarian affairs office, OCHA, said on Friday.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
UN Secretary-General AntĂłnio Guterres repeated his longstanding call for a humanitarian ceasefire in Gaza, the release of all hostages held in the enclave, and unimpeded access for aid delivery, in remarks to the Summit of the League of Arab States in Bahrain on Thursday.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
Large parts of the city of Rafah are now a âghost townâ, 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.
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.