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Gaza ceasefire could boost aid deliveries to 600 trucks per day: WHO

·January 17, 2025·2 min read

“The target is to get between 500 and 600 trucks in per day over the coming weeks,” said Dr Rik Peeperkorn, WHO representative in the occupied Palestinian territories (OPT). This would represent “a huge increase” from the 40 to 50 lorries reaching Gaza in recent months and be similar to...

UN stands with Ukrainians for the long-term, insists UN aid chief

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·January 16, 2025·1 min read

In a joint appeal from Kyiv, the UN’s emergency relief chief Tom Fletcher and Filippo Grandi, UN High Commissioner for Refugees, said that millions of civilians inside Ukraine and abroad depend on the international community’s support, amid ongoing Russian attacks. “The Ukrainian people have shown incredible courage over these years and we...

World News in Brief: North Gaza under siege, aid to millions in Syria, tensions in Mozambique

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·January 15, 2025·2 min read

In his daily briefing in New York, UN Spokesperson Stéphane Dujarric told journalists that there have been significant casualties reported in Jabalia al Balad and Khan Younis. Meanwhile, Israeli authorities continue to deny UN-led efforts to reach people with vital assistance, he told correspondents. North Gaza The Israeli siege of...

Humanitarians continue to call for Israel to facilitate aid delivery in Gaza

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·January 14, 2025·1 min read

Israeli authorities continue to deny UN-led efforts to reach Palestinians with vital aid, the agency said, noting that only seven out of 22 UN planned humanitarian movements on Sunday were facilitated. Of this number, six were denied outright, five were impeded, and four were cancelled due to security and logistical...

Resilience of Ukrainians remains high, as UN maps aid and reconstruction needs for 2025

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·January 12, 2025·5 min read

It has been almost three years since the 24 February 2022 full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine, which has killed thousands of civilians and destroyed vital infrastructure, putting the economy under enormous strain. The UN has recorded more than 28,000 civilian casualties and over 10,000 deaths, but acknowledges that the actual...

Critical aid blocked in Gaza, as fuel shortages threaten lifesaving services

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·January 12, 2025·2 min read

On Thursday, only 10 out of 21 planned humanitarian movements were facilitated by the Israeli authorities. Seven were denied outright, three were impeded and one was cancelled due to security and logistical challenges, said UN Spokesperson Stéphane Dujarric, at Friday’s media briefing in New York. OCHA is also deeply concerned...

Gaza war: UN World Food Programme condemns Israeli attack on aid convoy

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·January 6, 2025·2 min read

The WFP issued a statement on Monday condemning the attack insisting that its vehicles had been “clearly marked”. “At least 16 bullets” struck the convoy of three vehicles carrying eight staff members which came under fire near Wadi Gaza checkpoint. “Thankfully, no staff members were injured in this terrifying encounter,”...

Gaza: Hospitals closed, aid denied, civilians trapped

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·January 6, 2025·1 min read

A stark example of this escalation was highlighted by the Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO), Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, who confirmed that the Kamal Adwan hospital in North Gaza is now out of service. On 27 December, the facility was raided, its patients and staff were forcibly evacuated, and...

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...

Only 3 per cent of UN emergency food aid getting to desperate Gazans

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·December 26, 2024·1 min read

At the end of December, a joint UN convoy of nine trucks successfully reached people in Beit Hanoun, northern Gaza, who had been cut off from aid for over 75 days. Images taken by UN staffers showed desperate residents rushing out from shelters to retrieve the bottled water, flour and...

Gaza is now a graveyard and there’s no escape, say UN aid teams

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·December 20, 2024·2 min read

“The world is not seeing what’s going on with these people, it’s impossible for families to shelter in these conditions,” said Louise Wateridge, from the UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA). Speaking from Nuseirat in central Gaza after heavy winter rains overnight and into Friday morning, the UNRWA Senior Emergency Officer...

Winter rains and aid obstacles worsen ordeal for one million Gazans

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·December 18, 2024·2 min read

In an update, the UN aid coordination office, OCHA, stressed that attacks on civilian infrastructure have not stopped, “particularly in North Gaza, where the UN World Health Organization (WHO) reports appalling conditions at Kamal Adwan Hospital – and where 61 out of 95 attacks on school buildings since 6 October...