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Private donations boost UN support for war-torn Gaza

·September 6, 2024·8 min read

Since last October, the UN agency has raised nearly US$150 million from UNRWA Spain, UNRWA USA, foundations, non-governmental organizations (NGOs), corporations and individuals. Some even doubled or tripled their donations, said Karim Amer, the agency’s Director of Partnerships, who spoke to UN News ahead of the International Day of Charity,...

Catastrophic hunger doubles in 2024; Gaza and Sudan worst hit

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·September 5, 2024·4 min read

The updated Global Report on Food Crises reveals that nearly two million people are now grappling with the most critical level of food insecurity, classified as Phase 5 on the global IPC scale, which tracks acute hunger. This level represents an “extreme lack of food and exhaustion of coping capacities,”...

Gaza: Disease and war stalk children, despite vaccine success

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·September 5, 2024·2 min read

It’s been nearly 11 months since war erupted in the enclave following Hamas-led terror attacks in Israel. Today more than nine in 10 people have been forcibly displaced by the fighting, leaving them vulnerable to hunger, malnutrition and sickness. “So far, we’ve been able to vaccinate 187,000 children and as...

Gaza: UN humanitarians ahead of polio vaccination target

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·September 3, 2024·2 min read

“We think that we will need another day tomorrow to actually wrap-up the central zone completely,” said Dr. Rik Peeperkorn, WHO Representative for the Occupied Palestinian Territories (OPT). Speaking from Gaza, he explained that day three of the campaign was continuing during the eight-hour daily pauses agreed by the Israeli...

Gaza ceasefire ‘more urgent than ever’ as conflict approaches 100-day mark

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·January 14, 2024·6 min read

Speaking ahead of Sunday’s grim milestone, Spokesperson Liz Throssell reiterated the need for OHCHR staff to have access to Israel and all parts of the Occupied Palestinian Territory to investigate human rights violations by all parties. Fourteen weeks have passed since Hamas and other Palestinian armed groups carried out bloody...

War against Hamas in Gaza is act of self-defence, Israel tells world court

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·January 13, 2024·3 min read

On the second and final day of preliminary hearings at the International Court of Justice (ICJ), Israel’s legal team insisted that the twin military objectives were to eradicate the existential threat posed by Hamas militants and to free some 136 hostages still held in the war-shattered enclave. “Israel is in...

How is the UN helping civilians in Gaza?

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·January 13, 2024·1 min read

Despite the immense dangers and obstacles, the UN continues to deliver desperately needed humanitarian aid in Gaza. Here is an overview of the humanitarian efforts in the occupied territory....

Recurring denials hamper aid delivery to north Gaza

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·January 12, 2024·3 min read

The rate of access denials by Israel so far this month marks a “significant deterioration” over December, OCHA said in its latest update, issued late on Wednesday. Between 1 and 10 January, only three out of 21 planned deliveries of food, medicines, water, and other lifesaving items to the north of Wadi Gaza got through,...

Gaza: South Africa levels accusations of ‘genocidal conduct’ against Israel at world court

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·January 11, 2024·2 min read

The development came amid the ongoing and massive Israeli bombardment across the Gaza Strip in response to Hamas-led terror attacks on 7 October that left some 1,200 Israeli and foreign nationals dead in southern Israel and some 250 taken hostage. Laying out their case, the South African legal team told...

General Assembly meets over Gaza veto by US in Security Council

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·January 9, 2024·9 min read

Assembly Vice President Cheikh Niang of Senegal, holding the gavel in the General Assembly Hall and deputizing for President Dennis Francis, read out a statement on his behalf. General Assembly Vice President Cheikh Niang chairs the Emergency Special Session meets on the situation in the Middle East, including the Palestinian...

Aid relief is arriving in Gaza but ‘too little, too late’, warns WHO

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·January 9, 2024·2 min read

“Even if there is no ceasefire, you would expect humanitarian corridors to operate… in a much more sustained way than what’s happening now,” said Sean Casey, Emergency Medical Teams Coordinator for the World Health Organization (WHO), speaking from Rafah in southern Gaza. Humanitarian assistance – and particularly food – is desperately...

Gaza crisis: another hospital facing dire shortages, warns WHO

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·January 8, 2024·3 min read

In central Gaza, the UN World Health Organization (WHO) warned on Sunday that medics at the only functioning hospital in Deir al Balah governorate “had been forced to cease lifesaving and other critical activities…and leave” after an evacuation order issued amid “increasing” Israeli military activity. Only five doctors reportedly remain...