News Monitor
The latest humanitarian news headlines from around the world. (Page 1 from 21)
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A little over one year since a ceasefire agreement was announced between Hamas fighters and Israel, more than 340 children have been reported killed and hundreds more injured, the UN Childrenâs Fund (UNICEF) said on Friday.
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UNICEF warns that 800,000 children remain displaced, nearly every child needs mental health support, and damaged shelters and sanitation systems threaten families as winter approaches
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A suspected drone strike has left at least 40 dead in Sudanâs Blue Nile State â near the Ethiopian border - according to initial reports from the ground, according to UN Spokesperson StĂ©phane Dujarric. Most of the casualties were women and girls.
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UN human rights chief Volker TĂŒrk said on Thursday he was appalled by a wave of attacks that have killed civilians across Ukraine over the past four days.
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NRC warns Israeli restrictions could delay entry of winter shelter materials by over seven months, leaving 1.65 million people exposed to rain and cold in worn-out tents and damaged buildings.
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The UN chief on Tuesday strongly condemned an airstrike that reportedly killed at least 50 people at a market in Myanmarâs Rakhine state and called for those responsible to be held to account.
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The Security Council met Monday morning with prospects for peace in the Middle East under strain on two fronts. In the West Bank, settler violence and settlement expansion are raising fears for a two-State solution. In Gaza, a year-old peace plan has stalled while civilian suffering continues. The meeting comes as the planâs remaining phases, including Hamasâ disarmament and Israelâs full withdrawal, remain unimplemented, and as the illegality of settlements under international law remains a key point of contention.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
The UN Childrenâs Fund (UNICEF) is seeking to raise $97.5 million to protect 540,000 children and their families in Gaza and the West Bank from harsh winter conditions in the coming months.
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Search and rescue operations continued in Gaza City on Wednesday following the collapse of a bombed-out building that killed at least 20 people, according to reports.
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In war-torn Gaza, a growing number of women-headed households face âimpossible decisionsâ 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 Stéphane Dujarric said on Thursday.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
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.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
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 Childrenâs Fund (UNICEF) released on Monday.
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The decline reflects reduced access to farmland since the October 2025 ceasefire, linked to the westward expansion of the âYellow Lineâ 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 Childrenâs Fund (UNICEF) said on Thursday.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
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 âYellow Lineâ 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.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
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 âvirtual diplomatic field visitâ 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.
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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 Octoberâs 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 Tuesdayâs 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 UNâs Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Assistance (OCHA).