News Monitor
The latest humanitarian news headlines from around the world. (Page 4 from 19)
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
In Gaza, the ceasefire is enabling UN humanitarians to reach more desperate people with life-saving food ā but greater access is needed to contain the spread of famine.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
The UN on Monday said it was encouraged by renewed Gaza ceasefire commitments, warning that recent violence risked undermining fragile progress, as recovery efforts ā including a large-scale rubble removal project ā slowly gain momentum across the war-ravaged enclave.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
The UN World Food Programme (WFP) has warned food aid cannot reach everyone in Gaza unless all border crossings are opened, particularly in the north where famine was declared in August.
ReliefWeb News
One in seven families is now led by a woman. They need aid that reaches them directly, so they can feed their children, access healthcare, rebuild livelihoods and restore some stability.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
As a fragile ceasefire holds in the Gaza Strip, UN aid teams are intensifying efforts to deliver urgently needed assistance.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
The UN relief chief on Wednesday urged Israel and Hamas to honour their agreement to return deceased hostages and allow aid at scale into Gaza, warning that it should not be used as āa bargaining chipā amid reports of new civilian killings and extrajudicial executions.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
Around $70 billion will be needed to reconstruct Gaza and make it safe after two years of war, UN development experts said on Tuesday, while aid agencies reported that far too little aid is getting in to meet the needs of desperate Palestinians.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
Israel announced late on Tuesday that it will limit the flow of aid to Gaza, accusing Hamas of breaching the ceasefire agreement by returning only four of the bodies of deceased hostages so far.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
As the UN Secretary-General on Monday welcomed the release of all living hostages from Gaza, aid agencies said that lifesaving relief supplies are now flowing at scale into the shattered enclave.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
The UN is stepping up its emergency response in Gaza, releasing $11 million from its Central Emergency Response Fund (CERF) to meet urgent needs before winter ā a move that underscores both the expanding humanitarian effort and the funding shortfall threatening to stall it.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
As displaced Gazans jammed the main route leading north on Friday after the ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas reportedly came into effect, UN aid teams repeated their call to open all crossings into the devastated enclave to prevent famine spreading.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
As Gazans and Israelis celebrated the news that a potential ceasefire deal had been reached between the Hamas political leadership and Israel, UN aid agencies on Thursday underscored their readiness to inundate the famine-hit enclave with relief supplies, while urging the immediate release of all hostages.
ReliefWeb News
The study reinforces the confirmation by the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) of famine and adds the clearest evidence yet of how child malnutrition has evolved during the war.
ReliefWeb News
āThe need for a ceasefire could not be more urgent. Since Saturday morning, at least 14 children have reportedly been killed, as intense bombing and shelling by Israel continue to hit Gaza."
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
As the Gaza-Israel war enters its third year, sparked by Hamas-led terror attacks on Israel, the UN is appealing for the release of all hostages, an immediate ceasefire and an aid surge to alleviate Palestiniansā suffering ā all as talks on a US-driven peace plan continue in Egypt.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
UN aid teams in Gaza are āready to goā with thousands of tonnes of supplies on standby to alleviate famine, widespread hunger and malnutrition, in the event of agreement being reached over the US peace plan in the coming days.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
UN aid teams on Friday highlighted the disturbing situation in Gazaās makeshift hospitals, where premature babies cry for scant oxygen and medics attempt to save child survivors targeted by airstrikes in their tents and quadcopter victims reportedly shot while fetching bread.
ReliefWeb News
The logic imposed on people in Gaza is brutal and contradictory. The north has been declared hostile: those who remain are branded suspects. The south - so-called āsafe zonesā - are also places of death.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
Nearly 42,000 people in Gaza are living with life-changing injuries from the ongoing conflict ā including more than 10,000 children ā as the health system collapses under relentless strain, the World Health Organization (WHO) warned on Thursday.
ReliefWeb News
The NRC urged global leaders to press Israel and Hamas for an immediate and permanent ceasefire, secure the release of hostages and Palestinian detainees, and allow agencies to operate freely in Gaza.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
As Israeli forces continued their push to take full control of Gaza City on Wednesday, reports emerged that another skeletal child whose plight was highlighted by the UN Childrenās Fund (UNICEF) has now died. Her name was Jana and she was nine years old.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
The UN Secretary-General AntĆ³nio Guterres has welcomed Mondayās Gaza peace deal proposal from US President Donald Trump, urging āall partiesā to commit to it.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
The UN Security Council is meeting to discuss the Middle East crisis and protection of civilians in conflict, as speculation grows of a potential deal to end the war in Gaza with US President Donald Trump and Israeli premier Benjamin Netanyahu meeting in the White House for talks on Monday. Follow live coverage from the council chamber in New York below; UN News app users can go here.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
As Israeli military operations continue in Gaza City, deadly strikes on displaced Palestinians ā including people collecting firewood for cooking ā raise further concerns about attacks on civilians, the UN human rights office, OHCHR, said in a statement on Monday.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
The escalating Israeli military offensive in Gaza City continues to overwhelm medical professionals there, with four more hospitals forced to shut down this month alone in the north of the war-torn enclave, the UN World Health Organization (WHO) said on Friday.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
While the Israeli militaryās assault on Gaza City ramps up, conditions in the south of the war-torn enclave are so cramped that displaced and starving Gazans are sleeping on rubble-strewn open ground, UN aid teams said on Thursday.
ReliefWeb News
Children in Gaza continue to bear the brunt of war, following nearly two years of Israeli bombardment. The IRC reports a 48 percent increase in child protection cases in recent weeks.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
Hostilities between Israeli forces and Hamas have led to the shuttering of almost half of all malnutrition centres in and around Gaza City, the northern area of the Strip where famine was declared a month ago.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
Humanitarian aid in Gaza must be protected, the UN Childrenās Fund (UNICEF) said on Friday, following the theft of therapeutic food critical for saving thousands of young lives from malnutrition as famine spreads.
ReliefWeb News
Malnourished children and critically ill patients are among the thousands forced to walk south for many hours as Israelās assault intensifies, with some in wheelbarrows as they can barely stand.