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News headlines for “Aid”, page 23
Gaza children starving despite Israeli ‘tactical pauses’, UN says
- UN News
Despite daily “tactical pauses” declared by Israeli forces, humanitarian conditions in Gaza remain catastrophic, with children starving, aid workers overwhelmed, and fuel and water supplies critically low, UN humanitarians reported on Wednesday.
Tsunami alert highlights worth of global early warning system
- UN News
Early warning systems kicked in overnight across Pacific coastal communities after a massive earthquake in eastern Russia triggered a sea surge that reached the Japanese coastline around 1,000 kilometres (620 miles) away within about an hour, disaster relief experts said on Wednesday.
In Gaza, mounting evidence of famine and widespread starvation
- UN News
The people of Gaza are now in the grip of famine, UN-backed food security experts said on Tuesday, with unrelenting conflict, mass displacement and the near-total collapse of essential services pushing the war-battered enclave to a deadly tipping point.
Sudan: UN sounds the alarm as health and food crises worsen across the country
- UN News
The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) is alarmed by escalating health and food crises across Sudan, notably as cholera cases continue to rise in the locality of Tawila, North Darfur state.
Syria: Fragile ceasefire in Sweida ‘largely holding’ amid volatility
- UN News
A fragile de-escalation in Syria’s Sweida region is “largely holding” after weeks of violence displaced 175,000 people, killed hundreds and devastated critical infrastructure – exposing deep fissures in the country’s political transition.
Amid starvation in Gaza, Sudan, Guterres slams hunger ‘as a weapon of war’
- UN News
As starvation worsens in war-torn Gaza, UN agencies repeated warnings on Monday that Israel’s decision to support a “one-week scale-up” of aid is far from enough to reverse deadly malnutrition rates in the enclave.
UN warns of ‘catastrophic hunger’ in Gaza as Israel announces humanitarian pauses
- UN News
United Nations agencies welcomed on Sunday Israel’s pledge to implement daily humanitarian pauses in its military operations in Gaza, aimed at easing the flow of desperately needed aid into and across the devastated enclave.
Syria: Deadly sectarian violence displaces thousands in Sweida; healthcare attacked
- UN News
As deadly sectarian violence continues to displace hundreds of thousands of civilians in Syria’s Sweida Governorate, the World Health Organization (WHO) confirmed on Friday that attacks on health facilities had killed two doctors.
Gaza: More deaths reported as starvation spreads
- UN News
The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) has again sounded the alarm over the catastrophic and rapidly deteriorating conditions in the Gaza Strip as Israeli military operations continue to cause death, displacement and destruction.
Gaza First Person: ‘The best of humankind in a place abandoned by humanity’
- UN News
In the centre of war-torn Gaza, UN staff continue to work despite the “unprecedented” destruction and suffering around them, according to the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) Head of Office.
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