News Monitor
The latest humanitarian news headlines from around the world. (Page 1 from 18)
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
The fragile ceasefire in the Gaza Strip is making a difference to the lives of over a million children, and improving overall access to food - but more aid still needs to enter.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
Amid reconstruction talks on Gaza linked to President Trump's just-launched Board of Peace, UN aid agencies insisted on Friday that what Gazans need most is immediate relief from the ongoing humanitarian catastrophe there.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
Another child in the Gaza Strip has died from hypothermia as winter weather continues to whip the enclave, the UN said on Wednesday, citing information from the health authorities.
ReliefWeb News
Severe storms have rapidly flooded tents and torn through makeshift shelters. Children are sleeping in soaked clothing, with no protection from the cold and nowhere safe to go, warns IRC.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
Three months into the ceasefire in the Gaza Strip, the UN and partners have delivered tonnes of assistance items and carried out critical repairs, but this is only a temporary âBand-Aidâ solution, a veteran aid worker has warned.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
More children in war-ravaged Gaza are now back in the classroom, the UN aid coordination office (OCHA) said on Friday.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
Fighting the harsh winter storms in Gaza, Amina stays awake at night, hitting the canvas of the tent above her head to prevent it from collapsing under the pooled water.
ReliefWeb News
Since the ceasefire was announced 100 days ago, needs remain desperate. Severe weather has hit Gaza, and there has been a near-total water and sanitation infrastructure collapse.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
Airstrikes, drone attacks and hypothermia continue in Gaza despite the ceasefire, with more than 100 youngsters killed since early October, the UN Childrenâs Fund (UNICEF) said on Tuesday.
ReliefWeb News
âWhat the world now calls 'calm' would be considered a crisis anywhere else. Unfortunately, the ceasefire has had an unintended effect: Palestinian children in Gaza have disappeared from view."
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
Despite harsh winter conditions and continuing access constraints, the UN and partners are maintaining large-scale humanitarian operations in Gaza and the occupied West Bank, with a focus on shelter, water, health and education.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
Some 65,000 households in the Gaza Strip were affected by the severe winter storms that whipped through the enclave last month, the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said on Tuesday.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
For the first time since 2023, humanitarian assistance will provide Gazans with enough food to fulfil minimum nutritional needs.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
Humanitarian partners in the Gaza Strip are struggling to reach hundreds of thousands of vulnerable people as winter storms batter damaged homes and temporary shelters.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
As 2026 begins, residents of the Gaza Strip are confronting life in displacement camps and among the ruins of destroyed neighbourhoods â facing deep uncertainty after months of war and devastation.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
A sixth child has died in Gaza this month as the enclaveâs people continue to endure dire living conditions linked to freezing rains and the Israel-Hamas war, the UN Childrenâs Fund (UNICEF) has announced. The development comes as aid agencies urged Israeli authorities to reconsider revoking the licences of dozens of humanitarian partners that provide assistance across the devastated enclave from 1 January.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
Severe weather conditions have led to further casualties and heightened health risks in Gaza over the past 24 hours, the UN aid coordination office (OCHA) reported on Monday.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
Although âsignificant restrictions and impedimentsâ continue to hamper humanitarian operations in Gaza, teams are still responding to the populationâs needs, the UN aid coordination office OCHA said on Wednesday.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
The UN and partners continue to provide assistance to people in Gaza, where recent winter storms have worsened conditions for thousands across the enclave.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
Despite the ceasefire in the Gaza Strip, humanitarians continue to receive reports of airstrikes, shelling and gunfire in all five governorates, the United Nations said on Monday.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
Food security in Gaza has improved since the ceasefire declared in October, pushing back famine conditions, but the situation remains critical with more than three-quarters of the population still facing acute hunger and malnutrition, a new UN-backed analysis has found.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
A pregnant woman in Gaza thought she might lose her child because of malnourishment. Ten days ago, she gave birth and is now in recovery thanks to World Food Programme (WFP) facilities that are back up and running again, the agencyâs representative for Palestine said on Thursday.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
Humanitarian agencies working in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT) have warned that life-saving aid operations risk collapse unless Israel immediately lifts new barriers that are blocking access and forcing international charities to shut down.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
While the Asia and Pacific region has made notable progress in reducing hunger, persistent challenges remain in addressing malnutrition, food insecurity and unequal access to healthy diets, a new UN report published on Wednesday concludes.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
The ceasefire in GazaâŻremainsâŻfragile, while humanitarians continue to face obstructions in delivering aid to the people, a senior UN official working to promote greater peace in the region told the Security Council on Tuesday.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
Humanitarian assistance in Gaza is being delayed because aid cargo is routinely deprioritised in favour of commercial goods, the UNâs aid coordination office (OCHA) warned on Monday, as winter storms continue to worsen already dire living conditions for displaced families.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
In Gaza, as airstrikes, shelling and gunfire continued to kill and maim Palestinians, UN human rights chief Volker TĂŒrk on Wednesday rejected suggestions by the Israeli military that the so-called âYellow Lineâ of concrete blocks it has erected inside the enclave represented a new border.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
As another winter storm hits the Gaza Strip, low temperatures and rains are putting the lives of newborns and other vulnerable groups at risk, the UN aid coordination office, OCHA, said on Wednesday.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
Mothers whoâve been left starving in Gaza are now giving birth to underweight or premature babies who die in intensive care units or struggle to survive as they endure acute malnutrition, the UN Childrenâs Fund (UNICEF) warned on Tuesday.
ReliefWeb News
In October alone, we admitted 8,300 pregnant and breastfeeding women for treatment for acute malnutrition â about 270 a day â in a place where there was no discernible malnutrition before October 2023.