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Everyone is hungry in Gaza now: UN humanitarians

·January 2, 2024·3 min read

The latest warnings from UN relief agency for Palestinians UNRWA and the UN World Food Programme, WFP, highlighted the threat of starvation and disease in heavily built-up areas, where tens of thousands of people have fled intense bombing campaigns in the enclave’s north and centre. Skipping meals “Everyone in Gaza...

‘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...

Nearly half of Haiti going hungry, new food security report warns

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·May 30, 2023·1 min read

The latest integrated food security phase classification (IPC) analysis, reported on Sunday that of the total number of affected people, 1.8 million are in an emergency-level phase of need. This means that households face large food consumption gaps resulting in high acute malnutrition and excess mortality, or are forced to...

Severe funding shortfalls could leave 200,000 Palestinians hungry

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·May 14, 2023·4 min read

Unless donors meet the gap, 60 per cent of the people the agency assists in the Occupied Palestinian Territories will no longer be receiving food assistance in June, the World Food Programme (WFP) announced, adding that by August, the agency will be forced to completely suspend operations in the West...

More than half of all Syrians going hungry: WFP

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·March 15, 2023·1 min read

Some 12.1 million Syrians are food insecure, while nearly three million more are at risk of sliding into hunger, the UN agency warned, highlighting the urgent need for increased humanitarian assistance. Malnutrition is also on the rise, with stunting rates among children at 28 per cent, according to recent data....

Ukraine: Missile strikes threaten millions facing cold and hungry winter

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·December 6, 2022·1 min read

At the regular press briefing in New York, Associate Spokesperson Stéphanie Tremblay told journalists that according to UN humanitarian affairs office OCHA, citing local authorities, strikes affected regions in the north, centre and south, as well as the capital, Kyiv. “In Odesa, the water supply has been compromised due to...

Securing peace, feeding the hungry: UN chief honours staff who died in service |

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·June 23, 2022·3 min read

“We are united in sorrow and solidarity,” said Secretary-General António Guterres, consoling the family members and loved ones, joining in the memorial event from all over the world, telling them: “our hearts are with you”. ‘Immeasurable suffering’ Throughout the past year, COVID-19 continued to cause “immeasurable suffering and death,” he...