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Syria emergency: Four children a day killed or injured by leftover explosives

·January 15, 2025·1 min read

icardo Pires, UNICEF Communication Manager for Emergencies, told journalists from Damascus that in the last nine years, at least 422,000 incidents involving unexploded ordnance – or UXO – were reported in 14 governorates across Syria, “with half estimated to have ended in tragic child casualties”. “Girls and boys in the...

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...

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...

WHO approves first mpox diagnostic test for emergency use

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·October 5, 2024·1 min read

The Alinity m MPXV assay is a real-time PCR (polymerase chain reaction) test that enables detection of monkeypox virus DNA from human skin lesion swabs. It is manufactured by Abbott Molecular Inc, an American company, and specifically designed for use by trained clinical laboratory personnel. ‘A significant milestone’ “This first...

Security Council holds emergency session over Lebanon; region ‘on the brink of catastrophe’

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·September 23, 2024·1 min read

The Security Council met in emergency session on Friday following Israeli strikes on the Lebanese capital Beirut and in the south, which have left at least a dozen dead. It comes amid an uptick in cross-border fire between Hezbollah and Israeli forces – and two days of deadly wireless device...

LIVE: General Assembly resumes emergency special session on Palestine

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·September 17, 2024·1 min read

Ambassadors in the UN General Assembly again discussed on Monday the dire humanitarian situation in Gaza and the critical work of the UN agency for Palestine refugees, UNRWA, which is facing an existential threat, hearing a briefing by its Commissioner-General, Philippe Lazzarini, and holding a heated debate on the US...

Security Council holds emergency meeting on attacks in Belgorod, Russia

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·December 31, 2023·4 min read

At least 18 civilians were killed and more than 100 injured in an attack on Belgorod, said Khaled Khiari, Assistant Secretary-General in the UN Department of Political and Peacebuilding Affairs (UN DPPA), briefing the Council on the latest developments. Russia had called for the emergency meeting following reported attacks on...

UN General Assembly votes by large majority for immediate humanitarian ceasefire during emergency session

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·December 17, 2023·16 min read

Video of the Emergency Special Session of the General Assembly. Member States adopted a resolution, demanding an “immediate humanitarian ceasefire”, the immediate and unconditional release of all hostages and well as “ensuring humanitarian access”. It passed with a large majority of 153 in favour and 10 against, with 23 abstentions...

UN workers delivering aid to Gaza hospital describe ‘bloodbath’ in overflowing emergency department

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·December 17, 2023·1 min read

According to the team, Patients with trauma injuries were being sutured on the floor, limited to no pain management is available at the hospital, and the emergency department is so full that workers must take care not to step on patients on the floor. Al-Shifa Hospital, formerly the most important...

Unprecedented drought emergency demands urgent action

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·December 2, 2023·2 min read

Greater investments in meteorological monitoring, data collection and risk assessment can help respond quickly to drought emergencies and minimize impacts, it said, calling also for international cooperation, knowledge sharing, and environmental and social justice. Snapshots The publication includes important drought data, including on geographic spread, agriculture and forests, water conditions,...

‘Genuine prospect of Palestinian statehood is critical’, UNRWA chief tells emergency summit in Saudi Arabia

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·November 12, 2023·2 min read

Philippe Lazzarini was addressing an emergency summit convened by the League of Arab States and Organisation of Islamic Cooperation where he called for urgent support for civilians in the Occupied Palestinian Territory on three fronts. He called on leaders at the Arab-Islamic summit to “act now to change the trajectory”...

UPDATING LIVE: UN General Assembly convenes emergency meeting on Gaza

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·October 26, 2023·11 min read

11:51 AM Iran slams ‘genocide’ Hossein Amir-Abdollahian, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Iran, said that it has been three weeks that the international community has been a witness to the “war crime and genocide of the occupying Israeli regime in Gaza and the West Bank of Palestine.” He said that...