News headlines for “Middle East”, page 61
Gaza: UN health agency urges rapid scale-up of medevacs as thousands remain in critical condition
- UN News

More than 12,000 critically ill and injured patients, including at least 5,000 children, urgently need to be evacuated from Gaza, amid the crumbling health system, the UN World Health Organization (WHO)’s top official in the region said on Thursday.
Syria: Assad’s armed forces must face accountability, says rights probe
- UN News

Widespread pillaging and the destruction of property in Syria by all parties to the conflict have largely gone unpunished and likely amount to war crimes, top independent rights investigators reporting to the Human Rights Council maintained on Thursday.
Gaza: More than a million receive food aid since the start of the ceasefire
- UN News

Over one million people in the Gaza Strip have received food assistance since the ceasefire between Israel and Hamas took effect nearly three weeks ago, UN aid coordination office OCHA said in an update on Wednesday.
Deadly attacks in eastern Aleppo highlight Syria’s vulnerability
- UN News

The United Nations on Tuesday condemned a deadly car bomb attack in the Syrian city of Manbij that killed 20 people, mostly women, and left many others critically injured.
UNRWA delivers bulk of aid in Gaza, as destruction mounts in West Bank
- UN News

Some 30,000 residents from Jenin refugee camp in the occupied West Bank have fled their homes after large swathes of it were destroyed in a series of controlled detonations by the Israeli security forces (ISF), the UN agency for Palestine refugees (UNRWA) said on Tuesday.
Hidden Danger: How War Remnants Threaten Syrian Lives
- Inter Press Service

IDLIB, Syria, Feb 03 (IPS) - When 42-year-old Amina al-Hassan's family returned home after the fall of the Bashar al-Assad regime, her son stood on a landmine.
‘Grieving and crying’ as people on either side of Gaza conflict come together
- UN News

Two people who have fought on opposing sides of the decades-old conflict between Palestinians and Israel have come to together through “grieving and crying” to discuss how Israeli Jews and Palestinians can live side by side in peace.
Syria: Special Envoy applauds ‘shared conviction’ among Syrians on political transition
- UN News

The UN Special Envoy for Syria said on Monday that Syrians across the political spectrum share a deep conviction that the country’s political transition must succeed.
Relief chief in Israel and Palestine: ‘We must be practical, innovative and persistent’
- UN News

The top UN aid official arrived in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territory on Monday for a week-long visit, the UN humanitarian affairs office, OCHA, has reported.
Gaza Humanitarian Aid: How a Lack of Political Will Sabotaged Resolution 2720
- Inter Press Service

UNITED NATIONS, Jan 31 (IPS) - Before the three-phased ceasefire deal—proposed by President Joe Biden and dragged over the finish line by the then-incoming Donald Trump administration—silenced the bombs and drones over Gaza and allowed for humanitarian aid to flow into the strip, there was United Nations Security Council Resolution 2720.

