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Gaza: Humanitarians assist families impacted by recent airstrike in Deir Al-Balah
- UN News
UN teams in Gaza have carried out a rapid needs assessment in two makeshift sites in Deir Al-Balah following a recent airstrike, Spokesperson Stéphane Dujarric said on Tuesday.
Lebanon: Appeal for $371.4 million to boost life-saving support
- UN News
The UN and the Government of Lebanon unveiled a $371.4 million extension of the Lebanon Flash Appeal on Tuesday aiming to provide life-saving assistance to civilians affected by the recent conflict and ongoing humanitarian crisis.
First Person: Gaza, where starving people are trapped in a land reduced to rubble
- UN News
“We saw dead bodies scattered to the left and right, decomposing in the sun”, recounts Jonathan Dumont, Head of Emergency Communications at the World Food Programme (WFP). A veteran of conflict zones around the world, he says that the destruction and suffering he witnessed in Gaza is on a “different scale”.
‘Famine conditions are spreading’ as Sudan’s crisis worsens: Security Council
- UN News
Human suffering in Sudan has reached devastating levels, with over 11.5 million people internally displaced and 3.2 million seeking refuge in neighbouring countries.
Gaza war: UN World Food Programme condemns Israeli attack on aid convoy
- UN News
Israeli airstrikes continued across Gaza overnight into Monday, while the UN World Food Programme (WFP) reported that one of its aid convoys in the war-shattered enclave was targeted by Israeli fire on Sunday.
‘Hospitals have become battlegrounds’: Gaza’s health system on brink of collapse
- UN News
With seven per cent of the population killed or injured since October 2023, the health crisis in Gaza shows no signs of abating.
UN continues to call for timely Israeli withdrawal from southern Lebanon
- UN News
Operations by the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) north of the UN-monitored Blue Line in southern Lebanon have continued, according to the UN peacekeeping mission in the country, UNIFIL.
MIDDLE EAST CRISIS LIVE: Security Council holds emergency meeting on collapse of Gaza health system
- UN News
The UN Security Council is meeting in emergency session at 10am in New York on the collapse of health services in Gaza. The meeting was called by Algeria, the leading voice for the Arab world on the Council which has just taken the gavel as president for the month of January. A senior official from the World Health Organization (WHO) briefed ambassadors alongside High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Turk. App users can follow here.
Fresh evacuation orders and airstrikes highlight ongoing insecurity in Gaza
- UN News
Civilians are not safe anywhere in the Gaza Strip, the UN humanitarian affairs office, OCHA, warned on Thursday.
RC blog: 'It will take years to help people deal with the invisible consequences of war'
- UN News
Since he began his mandate as UN Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator in Ukraine, Matthias Schmale has seen for himself the devastating effects of the Russian invasion. In this account, written exclusively for UN News, Mr. Schmale shares his impressions of Ukraine, and the efforts of the UN System to support its citizens.
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