Palestine

On a visit to the Rafah crossing, the UN Secretary-General called the line of blocked aid trucks on Egypt’s side of the Gaza border, with Palestinians facing starvation on the other side, a “moral outrage”, Al Jazeera reported. The visit…

The head of the World Health Organization (WHO) stated that only expanding land crossings for aid deliveries into Gaza could help prevent famine in the densely populated Palestinian enclave, Al Jazeera reported. WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus emphasized that children…

Israel’s war on Gaza has resulted in the death of over 13,000 children since October 7, while thousands of others are suffering from severe malnutrition, lacking even the energy to cry, says the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF). UNICEF says…

The UN highlighted Thursday the need for reconstruction in Gaza after the conflict and warned that it would take years to clear “the nearly 23 million metric tons (25 million tons) of debris generated by the destruction,” Anadolu Agency reported.            …

The UN reported that over 80% of households in Gaza lack safe and clean water, highlighting the dire situation in the area, Anadolu Agency reported. The UN team working on water and sanitation hygiene in Gaza described extremely challenging conditions…

At least 15 children have succumbed to death over the past few days from malnutrition and dehydration at Gaza’s Kamal Adwan hospital, Reuters reported yesterday. “We fear for the lives of 6 (other) children suffering from malnutrition and diarrhea at…

United Nations officials have accused Israel of systematically blocking aid from reaching desperate Palestinians in Gaza, warning that a quarter of the enclave’s population is on the verge of famine. Meanwhile, the Last functioning hospital in northern Gaza faces closure…

Antonio Guterres announced today the preconditions for providing effective humanitarian aid in the Gaza Strip in his post on X (formerly known as Twitter). The Secretary General of the United Nations stressed that “more security and equipment are needed” for…

Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip have destroyed 1,000 mosques since Oct. 7, according to local authorities. There are an estimated 1,200 mosques in the Gaza Strip, they added. According to the statement, a church, several administrative buildings, Quranic schools,…

At least 20,000 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli attacks since October 7, according to Gaza’s Government Media Office. The death toll from Hamas’s attack on Israel stands at nearly 1,140. UN Security Council is expected to vote on the…