News Monitor
The latest humanitarian news headlines from around the world. (Page 5 from 17)
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) has again sounded the alarm over the catastrophic and rapidly deteriorating conditions in the Gaza Strip as Israeli military operations continue to cause death, displacement and destruction.
ReliefWeb News
From January to June 2025, births sharply declined. About one-third of babies were born prematurely, underweight or required admission to neonatal intensive care.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
âPeople in Gaza are neither dead nor alive, they are walking corpses.â
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
A senior UN official on Wednesday urged the Security Council to push for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza and the release of all hostages, warning that the war has become âa nightmare of historic proportionsâ and it is âlong past timeâ for the fighting to end and for hostages to return home.
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An average of 119 Palestinians are being killed daily so far this month. Doctors report 19 people, mostly children, died from starvation in just one day this week.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
Worrying alerts from United Nations staff in the Gaza Strip who have been fainting from hunger and exhaustion over the past 48 hours have increased fears for peopleâs survival in the devastated enclave, UN humanitarians said on Tuesday.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
After another deadly weekend in Gaza in which at least 67 Palestinians were reportedly killed seeking food, UN aid teams on Monday described âmayhemâ and starvation in the enclave as the Israeli military pushed into Deir Al-Balah for the first time.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
UN Secretary-General AntĂłnio Guterres is appalled by the accelerating breakdown of humanitarian conditions in Gaza, where the last lifelines keeping people alive are collapsing, his Spokesperson said on Monday.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
The hunger crisis in Gaza has reached new and astonishing levels of desperation, with a third of the population not eating for multiple days in a row, a senior official with the UN World Food Programme (WFP) said on Monday.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
The continued onslaught and mass deprivation of people in the Gaza Strip is becoming normalised, the UN aid coordination office OCHA warned on Friday.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
UN Secretary-General AntĂłnio Guterres has strongly condemned the Israeli strike on Thursday that hit the only Catholic church in the Gaza Strip.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
New evacuation orders in Gaza issued by the Israeli military have uprooted tens of thousands of Palestinians, amid ongoing bombardment, aid agencies have warned.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
The UN Security Council is meeting on the escalating humanitarian crisis in Gaza, where fresh Israeli evacuation orders have uprooted tens of thousands amid relentless bombardment claiming hundreds of civilian lives in recent weeks â many of them children. âFood is running out. Those seeking it risk being shot. People are dying trying to feed their families,â UN relief chief Tom Fletcher has just told ambassadors. Follow our real-time updates and key moments through our live UN Meetings Coverage page. UN News App users can join here.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
Conditions in Gaza have reached an unspeakable level of devastation with children paying the highest price, top UN officials told the Security Council on Wednesday, warning of soaring child deaths, starvation and a shattered health system amid continuing bombardment and displacement.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
Nearly 900 desperate and hungry Gazans have been killed in recent weeks trying to fetch food, with most deaths linked to private aid hubs run by the so-called Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF), the UN human rights office, OHCHR, said on Tuesday.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
The head of UN child rights agency UNICEF has called for Israel to review its rules of engagement in Gaza after seven children were killed while waiting for water at a distribution point.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
The fuel crisis in Gaza has reached a breaking point, threatening to bring all humanitarian operations to a halt and endangering the lives of everyone reliant on aid inside the enclave, UN agencies warned in a powerful joint statement on Saturday.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
Humanitarian needs in the Gaza Strip âhave never been higherâ while the ability to assist the population has ânever been more constrained,â a senior official with the World Food Programme (WFP) said on Friday in New York.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
The head of the UN Childrenâs Fund (UNICEF) has voiced deep dismay over the âunconscionableâ killing of children during an aid distribution in the central Gaza Strip on Thursday.
ReliefWeb News
Fuel supplies have been entirely restricted from entering Gaza since Israeli authorities imposed a total siege on 2 March, putting the entire humanitarian response at risk of grinding to a halt.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
As scores of people â including medical staff and their families â have reportedly been killed in the past week, UN health partners in Gaza continue to provide emergency care despite very limited resources.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
UN humanitarians have warned that the catastrophic conditions in Gaza are worsening, as tents, schools, homes and medical facilities come under attack, and fuel supplies run out.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
The UN Secretary-General is âappalledâ by the deepening humanitarian crisis in Gaza, as civilians face yet another wave of mass displacement with few safe places to go.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
A key water reservoir serving Khan Younis in southern Gaza has become inaccessible following new Israeli displacement orders, sparking fears of a collapse in the cityâs water distribution network and worsening already dire humanitarian conditions, the United Nations warned on Wednesday.
ReliefWeb News
The few medical facilities that continue to function - including the Red Cross Field Hospital - are overwhelmed and running dangerously low on essential supplies, including fuel, and even body bags.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
The United Nations on Tuesday reported that humanitarian operations in Gaza are facing escalating strain, as ongoing fuel shortages, access restrictions and military activity continue to undermine aid delivery and essential services.
ReliefWeb News
The 400 aid distribution points operating during the temporary ceasefire have been replaced by just four military-controlled sites, forcing two million people into overcrowded, militarized zones.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
The humanitarian crisis in Gaza is deepening at an alarming rate, a senior United Nations official warned on Monday, as Israeli military operations and attacks on civilians seeking aid continue to exact a devastating toll on lives and infrastructure.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
The crisis in Gaza is worsening, UN humanitarians warned on Monday, as ongoing hostilities and access restrictions drive displaced communities deeper into despair.
ReliefWeb News
Extreme hunger and high levels of malnutrition and mortality are likely ongoing in North Darfur and Khartoum, while the operational challenges of the GHF are still resulting in mass starvation.