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Over 115,000 Syrians have returned home since end of Assad dictatorship

·January 5, 2025·2 min read

The information is based on public statements by host countries, contacts with immigration services from inside Syria, and border monitoring by the agency and partners. UNHCR said the Turkish Minister of Interior reported that 35,113 Syrians have voluntarily returned home. Jordan returnees’ demographic shift For its part, Jordan noted that...

‘Hospitals have become battlegrounds’: Gaza’s health system on brink of collapse

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·January 5, 2025·2 min read

In a Security Council meeting on Friday, Dr. Rik Peeperkorn, World Health Organization (WHO) representative for the West Bank and Gaza, painted a grim picture of the situation, emphasising that over 25 per cent of the 105,000 injured civilians now face life-changing injuries. “At the current rate, it would take five...

UN continues to call for timely Israeli withdrawal from southern Lebanon

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·January 4, 2025·2 min read

This includes movements further north reported in Sector East, while a redeployment by the Lebanese Armed Forces was conducted this week in Shama, in Sector West. Both Israel and Lebanon have recommitted to full implementation of Security Council resolution 1701, UN Deputy Spokesperson Farhan Haq said during the daily media...

Haiti gangs crisis: Top rights expert decries attacks on hospitals

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·January 4, 2025·1 min read

William O’Neill, who reports to the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, highlighted an attack on the Bernard Mevs Hospital in Port-au-Prince on 17 December and the killing of several journalists and a police officer at the General Hospital on 24 December. The victims were attending the hospital’s official reopening....

Young Venezuelan refugees get a fresh start in Trinidad’s schools

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·January 4, 2025·2 min read

When 11-year-old Venezuelan refugee Astrid Saavedra walked into her fourth-grade classroom in Trinidad and Tobago for her first day of school in September, she was eager to begin lessons in her favourite subject, mathematics. But the prospect of teaching fellow students about her homeland Venezuela was equally exciting. Astrid is one...

Syria: UN teams support cholera vaccination in northeastern camps

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·January 4, 2025·3 min read

The cholera outbreak was detected in the camp in early October and subsequently confirmed by laboratory tests. Because Al Hol does not have a specialist treatment centre for acute watery diarrhoea, it is crucial that as many people are vaccinated as quickly as possible, the UN Children’s Fund, UNICEF, insists. ...

MIDDLE EAST CRISIS LIVE: Security Council holds emergency meeting on collapse of Gaza health system

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·January 3, 2025·1 min read

The UN Security Council met on Friday morning in New York to debate 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. Senior...

World News in Brief: Deaths on the Mediterranean, rights in Venezuela, new Security Council members take their seats

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·January 3, 2025·3 min read

Regina De Dominicis – who also heads the agency’s Europe and Central Asia Regional Office – issued her plea for action after another small boat sank off the coast of the southern Italian island of Lampedusa on New Year’s Eve. “Among the seven survivors is an eight-year-old child whose mother...

Gaza: ‘Every day without a ceasefire will bring more tragedy’

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·January 3, 2025·3 min read

Commissioner-General Philippe Lazzarini stressed that no place and no one in Gaza has been safe since the war began in October 2023. “As the year begins, we got reports of yet another attack on Al Mawasi with dozens of people killed and injured,” he said, calling this “another reminder that...

Fresh evacuation orders and airstrikes highlight ongoing insecurity in Gaza

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·January 3, 2025·2 min read

This comes a day after Israel once again ordered the evacuation of large areas within Gaza, citing rocket fire into its territory. The new orders cover about three square kilometres in North Gaza and Deir Al-Balah governorates, according to initial analysis by OCHA. Deadly airstrikes Strikes have since been reported...

UN chief condemns New Orleans truck attack

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·January 2, 2025·1 min read

Media reports indicated that a US male citizen had intentionally driven a pick-up truck into a crowd of people celebrating the new year in the city’s French quarter shortly after 3am local time. The 42-year-old suspect was killed in a police shootout that injured two officers. His potential allegiance to...

Aid trucks deliver food to northwest Syria

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·January 2, 2025·1 min read

UN aid coordination office, OCHA, reported that the cross-border operation from Türkiye into the northwest is running without impediments. On Tuesday, 21 trucks carrying 500 metric tonnes of food – enough for 175,000 people – from the UN World Food Programme (WFP) crossed into Idlib through the Bab Al-Hawa border...