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News headlines for “Aid”, page 25
People dying from lack of aid every day in Gaza: WFP official
- UN News
The hunger crisis in Gaza has reached new and astonishing levels of desperation, with a third of the population not eating for multiple days in a row, a senior official with the UN World Food Programme (WFP) said on Monday.
Syria: Ongoing violence fuelling mass displacement in Sweida
- UN News
Ongoing sectarian violence in Sweida, Syria has triggered mass displacement in the area as humanitarians attempt to deliver aid.
Gaza: Guterres condemns killing of people seeking food as humanitarian conditions deteriorate
- UN News
UN Secretary-General António Guterres is appalled by the accelerating breakdown of humanitarian conditions in Gaza, where the last lifelines keeping people alive are collapsing, his Spokesperson said on Monday.
Terror and chaos for Gaza’s people now entering the ‘death phase’
- UN News
After another deadly weekend in Gaza in which at least 67 Palestinians were reportedly killed seeking food, UN aid teams on Monday described “mayhem” and starvation in the enclave as the Israeli military pushed into Deir Al-Balah for the first time.
Humanitarians report more deaths, displacement and desperation in Gaza
- UN News
The continued onslaught and mass deprivation of people in the Gaza Strip is becoming normalised, the UN aid coordination office OCHA warned on Friday.
On the road in war-torn Gaza
- UN News
Mohammed Saad sits with others inside a homemade cart pulled by a car carrying several passengers, waiting to travel to Gaza City in one of the “uncomfortable and extremely expensive” means of transportation used to get around the Strip.
Aid cuts leave refugee agency unable to shelter six in 10 fleeing war in Sudan
- UN News
Major cuts to aid budgets have already left people fleeing wars in Sudan and beyond without the assistance and protection they need, the UN refugee agency, UNHCR, said on Friday.
Syria crisis: Hundreds killed in ongoing violence, hospitals overwhelmed
- UN News
Amid violent clashes in southern Syria’s Sweida governorate, a picture of grave human rights abuses and rising humanitarian needs is emerging by the hour, the UN said on Friday.
UN sounds alarm over Syria as sectarian clashes and Israeli strikes escalate
- UN News
A surge in sectarian violence in southern Syria and Israeli airstrikes reaching central Damascus have pushed the war‑scarred country into a volatile juncture, a senior UN official said on Thursday, warning that renewed violence could shatter prospects for peace and fuel wider regional instability.
Guterres deplores Israeli strike on Gaza church
- UN News
UN Secretary-General António Guterres has strongly condemned the Israeli strike on Thursday that hit the only Catholic church in the Gaza Strip.
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