News Monitor
The latest humanitarian news headlines from around the world. (Page 1 from 20)
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
In war-torn Gaza, a growing number of women-headed households face āimpossible decisionsā every day, amid ongoing Israeli airstrikes and still-scarce resources, UN humanitarians said on Tuesday.
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Peacekeepers in Lebanon have reported a marked deterioration in the security situation along the Blue Line of separation, with Israeli forces intensifying their military footprint in violation of a landmark Security Council resolution, UN Spokesperson StƩphane Dujarric said on Thursday.
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Lack of funding has forced the World Food Programme (WFP) to slash aid to families in the West Bank by half even though needs have more than doubled over the past two years.
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As hunger deepens across Gaza, humanitarian agencies continue to deliver food and other essential supplies to families in need.
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Among tent cities pitched on the rubble of destroyed homes in Gaza, children are, by one measure, finally getting enough to eat. By another, however, many of them may never fully recover, according to a new study by the UN Childrenās Fund (UNICEF) released on Monday.
ReliefWeb News
The decline reflects reduced access to farmland since the October 2025 ceasefire, linked to the westward expansion of the āYellow Lineā separating the ceasefire zone from the military-controlled area.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
Humanitarian workers have reached Palestinian families who had been trapped for days by Israeli settlers in Qusra village in the northern West Bank, the UN said on Monday, as officials warned that the standoff must not become "the new normal."
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At least 300 children in Gaza have been reportedly killed in as many days since a ceasefire agreement supposedly came into effect last October to suspend military operations between Hamas fighters and the Israel Defense Forces, the UN Childrenās Fund (UNICEF) said on Thursday.
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Israeli forces reportedly killed more than two dozen Palestinians in Gaza and violated Lebanese airspace more than 100 times over the weekend despite ongoing ceasefire agreements, UN agencies and peacekeepers said on Monday.
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UN agencies warned that families are still struggling to meet basic needs, and improvements could be reversed quickly without sustained aid, private sector reactivation, funding, and investment.
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Food security and child nutrition have improved across the Gaza Strip largely due to a scale-up in humanitarian assistance and commercial traffic, but progress remains fragile and could quickly reverse without sustained access, funding and recovery support.
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The UN is supporting farmers in Gaza who are struggling to rebuild their smallholdings in areas devastated by the Hamas-Israel war.
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Humanitarian actors, donors, and states must shift immediately from short-term emergency delivery to gender-responsive, protection-centred and rights-based WASH recovery, says Oxfam in this analysis.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
Humanitarians in the Gaza Strip continue to face significant challenges in reaching communities located near the so-called āYellow Lineā in northern Rafah, the UN aid coordination office OCHA said on Tuesday.
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Displacement has drastically reshaped every aspect of daily life in war-ravaged Gaza for 24-year-old Mayyada, who is seven months pregnant with twins and caring for her two-year-old daughter, but now she and her family are getting settled into a temporary home of their own.
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After thousands of buildings were destroyed in the Gaza Strip during the Israel-Hamas war, local teams and civil defense personnel continue the arduous and delicate mission to remove rubble and search for the remains of missing persons believed to still be buried under the debris of homes destroyed by Israeli airstrikes.
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Representatives from 12 countries carried out a āvirtual diplomatic field visitā to a displacement site in the Gaza Strip and heard from some of the residents about their pressing needs, the United Nations said on Thursday.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
Ongoing restrictions and closures of border crossings continue to hamper delivery of critical supplies into the Gaza Strip, amid mounting concern for children there and in the West Bank, the United Nations said on Monday.
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The continued expansion of areas under Israeli control in Gaza since Octoberās ceasefire agreement is placing civilians at greater risk and severely constraining humanitarian operations, the UN and humanitarian partners warned on Wednesday.
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The UN agency serving 5.9 million Palestine refugees, UNRWA, continues to strive to deliver on its mandate while facing an unprecedented $100 million budget shortfall, a gap it hopes to narrow during Tuesdayās pledging conference at UN Headquarters.
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More than 2,600 people were displaced in the Artibonite department of Haiti following clashes between armed groups last week as the humanitarian situation continues to worsen, according to the UNās Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Assistance (OCHA).
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Pope Leo called on the international community to renew its commitment to tackling hunger and malnutrition, describing access to adequate food as a āfundamental human rightā during a visit to the World Food Programme (WFP) headquarters in Rome on Monday.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
After another deadly night of clashes in Lebanon, aid agencies issued a new alert for Gaza, where 265 Palestinian children have been killed since a ceasefire was announced in October 2025.
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"These children were not killed in a warzone. They were killed in their homes. In their schools. Playing football. Fishing. They were shot, bombed, and struck by quadcopters."
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
The Security Council debated conditions in Gaza at the request of its 10 elected members amid concern that the territory's humanitarian crisis is being overshadowed by wider regional developments. The meeting took place under a ceasefire that has existed in name since October 2025 ā but nearly 1,000 Palestinians have been killed, and most Gazans remain displaced. Relief chief Tom Fletcher told ambassadors that āfragile gainsā since the truce are āthe bare minimum of what Palestinians need.ā Full coverage here, and wider Meetings Coverage can be found here.
ReliefWeb News
About 170,000 households - nearly one million people - live in tents. Another 5,000 households sleep outdoors, while 52,000 households live in overcrowded shelters. Summer will only sharpen the risks.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
Although United Nations peacekeepers continue to observe violence and exchanges of fire in Lebanon, the level is significantly reduced when compared to the weekend, UN Spokesperson StƩphane Dujarric said on Tuesday.
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Water production has dropped radically ā to about 40 per cent of what it was before October 2023. Independent water production ā from wells in Gaza ā is less than a third of what it was.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
Despite the agreement announced on Sunday between the United States and Iran, displaced people in Lebanon continue to face difficulties in returning to their communities, the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) has reported.
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Months since Gazaās nominal ceasefire began, Palestinians continue to be killed and maimed in drone and airstrikes, including the enclaveās police force which is crucial to peace and reconstruction efforts, the UN human rights office (OHCHR) said on Wednesday.