News Monitor
The latest humanitarian news headlines from around the world. (Page 7 from 19)
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 crisis in Gaza is worsening, UN humanitarians warned on Monday, as ongoing hostilities and access restrictions drive displaced communities deeper into despair.
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.
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.
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.
ReliefWeb News
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.
ReliefWeb News
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.