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With aid blockade into its second month, misery deepens for Gazans

·April 7, 2025·2 min read

In a joint statement, the heads of the UN’s aid agencies warned that “we are witnessing acts of war in Gaza that show an utter disregard for human life,” with Israeli displacement orders forcing hundreds of thousands to flee – with nowhere safe to go. “With the tightened Israeli blockade on...

Exhausted Gazans wake from another night of Israeli bombing: UN aid teams

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·March 22, 2025·3 min read

“We’re waking up from another intense night of bombardments, the fourth night of bombardment since the ceasefire abruptly broke down on Monday night…the situation is gravely, gravely concerning,” said Sam Rose, Acting Director of Affairs in Gaza for UNRWA, the UN agency for Palestine refugees. Speaking from close to the...

Nine out of 10 Gazans unable to access safe drinking water: UNICEF

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·March 11, 2025·1 min read

The situation has deteriorated further following Israel’s decision on Sunday to cut power to the enclave – in a bid to increase pressure on Hamas over hostage releases – disrupting vital desalination operations. Rosalia Bollen, a UNICEF official in Gaza, reported that 600,000 people who had regained access to drinking...

Gazans depend on us for ‘sheer survival’ insists UNRWA

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·January 31, 2025·3 min read

The development came as more than 462,000 people are estimated to have crossed from south Gaza to the north since the opening of the Salah ad Din and Al Rashid roads on Monday. The UN and humanitarian partners are assisting those on the move by providing water, high-energy biscuits and...

‘Enough death and destruction’: Gazans hope for ceasefire and a better future

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·January 17, 2025·4 min read

Around 90 per cent of the population across the Gaza Strip have been displaced from their homes, forced to move to avoid Israeli military operations. Many have been displaced repeatedly, some 10 times or more. Much of Gaza is rubble, while Israeli airstrikes and military operations have damaged or destroyed around 60 per...

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...

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...

Aid restrictions and dismantling UNRWA will compound Gazans’ suffering

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·November 5, 2024·3 min read

The Israeli Parliament, known as the Knesset, recently approved two laws banning UNRWA from operating in its territory and prohibiting officials from having any contact with the agency. Israel has officially informed the President of the UN General Assembly of the adoption of the new legislation. The letter says all...

‘Desperate, hungry, terrified’: Gazans stopping aid trucks in search of food

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·December 15, 2023·3 min read

Speaking later in the day at UN Headquarters, the deputy head of the UN World Food Programme (WFP), confirmed that following a food assessment, around half of all Gazans “are starving”, with no idea where their next meal is coming from. Briefing journalists in Geneva uon his return from Rafah...

Gazans have ‘no options’ for safety as offensive continues

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·November 20, 2023·1 min read

A tweet by the UN agency for Palestinian refugees, UNWRA on Monday, described the situation in shelters as “unliveable”. It said that Gazans had “no options”, echoing repeated warnings from UN humanitarians nowhere is safe for civilians in Gaza. Since Hamas’s terror attacks on Israel on 7 October that claimed...

UPDATED: Gazans struggle for survival; aid reaches stricken hospital

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·November 9, 2023·5 min read

The development came as foreign ministers from the G7 group of countries joined international calls on Wednesday for humanitarian pauses in the fighting to protect civilians, help bring in aid and support the release of the more than 240 hostages held captive in Gaza by Hamas since 7 October. No...

Israel-Palestine: Gazans ‘left with nothing but impossible choices’

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·October 26, 2023·4 min read

UPDATED: Reports of an overnight Israeli military incursion using tanks in northern Gaza followed another series of calls by the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) for civilians in Gaza City to evacuate – warnings which “make no difference” because “people have nowhere to go or are unable to move”, according to...