News headlines for “Middle East”, page 17
Iraq: UN mission ends, with pledge of continued support
- UN News
The recent parliamentary elections in Iraq mark a fitting end to the work of the UN Mission in the country, the Security Council heard on Tuesday.
Yemen’s Worsening Food Security Crisis: Economic Collapse, Continued Insecurity, and Humanitarian Challenges
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, December 1 (IPS) - For the past decade, Yemen has been at the center of a severe and multifaceted humanitarian crisis, marked by widespread violence between various Middle Eastern actors, widespread civilian displacement, economic decline, and the collapse of essential services that serve as lifelines for displaced communities. As the crisis has intensified in recent months, humanitarian agencies face increasing challenges in providing lifesaving care to civilians, who are experiencing record levels of hunger in a country that has become more reliant on remittances as self-sufficiency continues to slip further out of reach.
In the Occupied Palestinian Territory, journalism is ‘both a battleground and a lifeline’
- UN News
More than 260 media professionals were killed in the recent hostilities in Gaza – the deadliest conflict for journalists in decades.
Gaza: UN reports expanded winterisation efforts as cold weather intensifies
- UN News
The UN says humanitarian partners in Gaza are scaling up winterisation efforts as cold weather and heavy rain continue to impact displaced Palestinians.
Aid access and hospital operations remain constrained in Gaza
- UN News
Aid deliveries into Gaza continue to face difficulties as fighting continues across the territory, with the UN warning that most hospitals are only partially functioning and more than 16,500 patients still require urgent medical evacuation.
‘A language everyone understands’: Jordanian cartoonist on art as hope
- UN News
Cartoons have long been used to provoke thought, raise questions and challenge power, but for Jordanian artist and activist Omar Abdallat, they’re also a bridge between people.
On International Day of Solidarity, UN urges greater support and aid for Palestinians
- UN News
For over two years, tens of thousands of people have been killed in Gaza. The enclave faces its most severe economic collapse in history, and even amid a fragile ceasefire, children continue to die.
World News in Brief: Justice efforts in Libya, deadly attacks in Ukraine, scores killed since Israel-Lebanon ceasefire
- UN News
Recent months have seen progress towards accountability in Libya, the Deputy Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) said on Tuesday in a briefing to the UN Security Council.
Gaza women are ‘last line of protection’ for their families amid attacks, hunger and harsh winter
- UN News
Women in Gaza are ensuring their families’ survival “with nothing but courage and exhausted hands” while violence continues and essentials remain in short supply, the UN’s gender equality agency warned on Tuesday.
Gaza facing worst economic collapse ever recorded, UN trade agency warns
- UN News
The Occupied Palestinian Territory is now in its deepest economic crisis ever recorded, with Gaza suffering an “unprecedented and catastrophic” collapse, according to a new report from the UN Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) presented in Geneva on Tuesday.
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