News Monitor
The latest humanitarian news headlines from around the world. (Page 7 from 18)
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.
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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.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
The first delivery earlier this week of urgently needed medical goods to enter Gaza in months will provide scant relief to the enclaveâs people, who continue to be shot and killed in their search for food, the UN World Health Organization (WHO) said on Friday.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
Most families in the Gaza Strip are surviving on one meal a day and one-third go entire days without eating as a result of Israelâs continued bombardment of the enclave, according to the UN World Food Programme (WFP) and partners.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
The rapid depletion of the remaining fuel stocks in the Gaza Strip is threatening efforts to keep critical lifelines up and running, the UN reported on Wednesday.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
At least 410 Palestinians have been killed by the Israeli military while trying to fetch from controversial new aid hubs in Gaza â a likely war crime â the UN human rights office, OHCHR, said on Tuesday.
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Report highlights how energy is one of the invisible threads that hold together family life and essential servicesâpowering kitchens, hospitals, water pumps, food preparation and aid logistics.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
The top UN humanitarian official in the Occupied Palestinian Territory has issued a stark warning over the deepening crisis in Gaza, where civilians are being killed daily while trying to access food, water and medical care.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
Senior UN officials reiterated an appeal for urgent restraint on Saturday as conflict spiral between Israel and Iran, amid a wider regional crisis exacerbated by Israelâs war in Gaza and the worsening humanitarian situation facing Palestinian civilians.
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At present, just 40 per cent of drinking water production facilities remain functional in Gaza (87 out of 217). Without fuel, every one of these will stop operating within weeks, warned UNICEF.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
Death and suffering in Gaza are ever-present and the enclave's people now have little choice but to risk their lives to fetch aid supplies, UN agencies said on Friday.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
More than 100 days into Israelâs complete fuel blockade in Gaza, UN agencies still in the shattered enclave warned on Thursday that vital services are only âhours awayâ from shutting down.
ReliefWeb News
Relentless displacement, access restrictions and the near-total destruction of housing have left hundreds of thousands without adequate shelter, and humanitarians without the means to assist them.
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Reports show that one in every five people is now facing starvation; for an estimated 55,000 pregnant women, each missed meal increases the risk of miscarriages, stillbirths and undernourished babies.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
As the pall of starvation hangs over Gaza, UN agencies have sounded the alarm over deadly violence at food distribution points, where over 400 Palestinians have reportedly been killed in recent weeks while trying to access desperately needed humanitarian aid.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
Gazaâs health system is at breaking point, overwhelmed time and again by scores of people killed or injured near aid distribution sites, the UN World Health Organization (WHO) said on Tuesday.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
UN agencies on Friday continue to stress they must be allowed to deliver aid in the Gaza Strip as famine looms and a telecommunications blackout threatens lifesaving operations.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
Meeting in emergency session on Thursday in New York, the UN General Assembly overwhelmingly adopted a resolution demanding an immediate, unconditional and lasting ceasefire in Gaza.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
People in the Gaza Strip are getting hungrier because of the âvery limitedâ volume of food being allowed in, UN aid agencies reiterated on Wednesday.âŻ
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
The worsening humanitarian crisis in the Gaza Strip has reached âunprecedented levels of despair,â the UN said on Monday, amid more reports of people being killed and injured near newly-established distribution sites.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
Whether itâs their first time or a routine part of their life, menstruation has become a nightmare for women and girls in Gaza. The conditions they are forced to endure - displacement, overcrowded shelters, and lack of basic hygiene - have turned a natural biological process into a monthly ordeal.
ReliefWeb News
With Gazaâs local food production capacity nearly destroyed, controlling the crossings means controlling survival itself. Each round of deprivation and partial recovery compounds life-long damage.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
The lack of food entering Gaza caused by ongoing Israeli aid restrictions is leaving increasing numbers of Palestinians âvulnerable to starvationâ, with daily energy intake now well below what a human body needs to survive, the UN warned on Thursday.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
A draft resolution calling for an immediate and permanent ceasefire in Gaza failed to pass in the UN Security Council on Wednesday after the United States cast its veto â blocking the initiative backed by all ten elected members of the Council.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
The United States has vetoed a new draft resolution on Gaza, standing as the lone vote against the text which called for an immediate, unconditional and permanent ceasefire, the unconditional release of hostages held by Hamas and others and the immediate lifting of all aid restrictions. Follow live coverage from our Meetings Coverage Section and UN News app users can follow here.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
UN human rights chief Volker TĂŒrk has condemned new reports that dozens more Gazans were killed early Tuesday âtrying to access paltry amounts of foodâ around a private aid hub in the south of the enclave run by the US and Israel.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
The UN Secretary-General has condemned the reported killing and injury of Palestinians seeking food aid in Gaza on Sunday, calling for an investigation into the matter.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
âI stood helpless in the face of my son's hunger. I cried a lot and told him to drink from our little water to satisfy his hunger,â said Zeenat, a young Palestinian woman speaking to UN News from the battered Gaza Strip.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
Amid disputed reports of Israeli forces firing on civilians near a new privatised aid distribution point in southern Gaza, the head of the Palestine refugee agency, UNRWA, said on Sunday that lifting the months-long aid blockade of the enclave is the only way to avoid âmass starvationâ.
ReliefWeb News
Described by UN Secretary-General AntĂłnio Guterres as âthe cruelest phaseâ of the conflict, the situation has left Palestinian civilians enduring unbearable suffering and widespread and engineered deprivation and mass displacement.