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Sanitary disaster in Gaza ‘worsening by the day’, warns UNRWA

·September 17, 2024·3 min read

In a new alert, UNRWA highlighted how Gazans’ shelters have become a target for insects and rodents after more than 11 months of war – echoing deep concerns among humanitarians about the lack of basic hygiene items that have left families unprotected from communicable diseases. Echoing those warnings, top independent...

Gaza flooding latest disaster to hit desperate Palestinians

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·December 14, 2023·2 min read

UN humanitarian affairs coordination office OCHA said that many areas in the enclave have been flooded, “worsening the struggle of displaced Palestinians”, while UNRWA chief Philippe Lazzarini was due to brief journalists in Geneva on the situation on Thursday, following his most recent visit to Gaza. Almost 1.9 million people...

‘Humanitarian disaster zone’: Gaza hospital capacity decimated – WHO

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·December 12, 2023·4 min read

Briefing reporters from Gaza, Dr. Richard Peeperkorn, WHO’s representative in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, described corridors overflowing with trauma patients at Al-Ahli Hospital in Gaza City, where doctors treat people on the floor and fuel, oxygen, food and water are scarce. In just 66 days of fighting, the Strip has...

Gaza humanitarian disaster heralds ‘breakdown’ of society

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·December 10, 2023·3 min read

In a letter to the President of the UN General Assembly Dennis Francis, the head of the UN agency for Palestine refugees (UNRWA), Philippe Lazzarini, warned that UNRWA’s ability to implement its mandate in Gaza is “severely limited” and that the primary platform for humanitarian assistance to over 2.2 million...

Libya: Mission chief updates Security Council on flood disaster ‘beyond imagination’

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·October 16, 2023·2 min read

Briefing the Security Council, Abdoulaye Bathily noted the thousands of lives lost by the dam bursts which destroyed whole neighbourhoods after Storm Daniel slammed the region on 10 September. The Special Representative told ambassadors that despite the sense of national unity and compassion shown by ordinary Libyans, the disaster had...

Cutting disaster risk will boost equality, improve resilience

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·October 16, 2023·2 min read

According to various estimates, up to 75 per cent of extreme weather events are currently connected to climate change, fuelled by carbon emissions. The countries experiencing the greatest losses from disasters are those who contribute the least to the problem. UN figures reveal that from 1970 through 2019, some 91...

Morocco and Libya: UN scales up support for disaster relief

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·September 15, 2023·3 min read

He called for solidarity with the people of the two countries and spoke of the tragedy of people looking desperately for their loved ones for days on end. In Libya, “some have lost 50 or more family members”, he said. Immediate deployment Asked whether the UN was “ready” when disaster...

‘Disaster emergency’ underway in Asia-Pacific, warns ESCAP

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·July 25, 2023·1 min read

According to a new report from the UN Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP), in 2022 alone, over 140 disasters struck the region, leading to over 7,500 deaths. They impacted 64 million people, and caused economic damage estimated at $57 billion. Under a 2°C warming scenario,...

‘Crushing’ debt crisis spells development disaster for billions: UN chief

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·July 13, 2023·1 min read

According to a new report by the UN Global Crisis Response Group, entitled A World of Debt, a total of 52 countries – almost 40 per cent of the developing world – are in “serious debt trouble”, Mr. Guterres said, backing calls for them to receive urgent fiscal relief. Last year global...

Kakhovka dam disaster a health crisis in the making: WHO

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·June 13, 2023·2 min read

WHO’s representative in Ukraine Dr. Jarno Habicht told reporters that after the collapse of the dam caused severe flooding and massive displacement, the agency’s primary concern was the potential outbreak of waterborne diseases such as cholera and typhoid, as well as rodent-borne diseases. The agency’s teams were monitoring the situation...

‘We stand by you’ declares UN relief chief, outlining emergency plan for Ukraine dam disaster

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·June 10, 2023·3 min read

“We need to focus on an emergency response right now”, he said, highlighting a three-step plan to provide humanitarian assistance to all Ukrainians impacted, who have faced more than one year of war following Russia’s full-scale invasion in February 2022. “We need to save people and get them to places...

Ukraine flood disaster: needs grow as long-term impacts loom

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·June 9, 2023·4 min read

Speaking to journalists from Bilozerka, a town on the Dnipro River about 20 kilometres west of Kherson and five kilometres from the frontline, Ms. Brown, the Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator, said that on Friday, the UN brought in a five-truck convoy to the affected areas, with desperately needed drinking water,...