Palestine

The Gaza Strip is on the brink of a famine crisis, with food insecurity, malnutrition, and mortality expected to surpass critical levels within the next six weeks, Reuters reported yesterday citing the World Food Programme. A U.N.-backed report warned of…

The UN’s Human Rights chief has strongly condemned recent Israeli strikes in Rafah that resulted in the deaths of many women and children, reliefweb reported yesterday. In a statement on Tuesday, Volker Turk also warned against a full-scale incursion into…

Palestinian civil defence crews have recovered 210 bodies so far from a mass grave inside the Nasser Medical Complex in Gaza’s Khan Younis, Al Jazeera reported yesterday. The discovery on Saturday, and ongoing recovery, comes after the Israeli military withdrew…

The death toll of children in Gaza has surpassed the grim mark of 14,000 since Oct. 7, 2023, the UNICEF said on Friday, reiterating its call for a cease-fire, Anadolu Agency reported. It said that James Elder, the organization’s spokesperson,…

Children are bearing a ‘tremendous share of the scars’ of the Gaza war, UNICEF Communication Specialist Tess Ingram said on Tuesday at a UN press briefing in Geneva. Citing the latest figures from the Palestinian Ministry of Health, Ingram said…

The United Nations Security Council has demanded an immediate ceasefire between Israel and Hamas in Gaza, with the US abstaining from the vote, Al Jazeera reported. The resolution, proposed by 10 elected members, was supported by 14 council members, the…

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.            …