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Gaza: Israeli war tactics condemned as aid still blocked from reaching north

·November 15, 2024·3 min read

An update from the UN aid coordination office, OCHA, said that in the last two days alone, “six attempts to deliver lifesaving assistance to besieged areas in North Gaza governorate were blocked”. The missions on Tuesday and Wednesday had aimed to bring food and water to Jabalia, Beit Hanoun and...

Gaza: ‘People losing hope’ as aid access is refused to north, warns UNRWA

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·November 13, 2024·2 min read

Briefing reporters in Geneva from central Gaza, UNRWA senior emergency officer Louise Wateridge warned that amid looming famine in the Gaza Strip and as winter approaches, those forcibly displaced are sleeping on the floor in makeshift shelters surrounded by sewage. “We are extremely concerned when the rains come to the...

Gaza: Polio campaign reaches 94,000 children in besieged north

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·November 4, 2024·2 min read

Richard Peeperkorn of the World Health Organization (WHO) in the Occupied Palestinian Territory said the target was to reach all children in the north with the second and final dose. “We covered many more children than we expected, but we missed some,” he said during a briefing via videolink for...

Gaza: Final phase of polio vaccine campaign reaches ravaged north

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·November 2, 2024·2 min read

“To overcome challenges posed by the volatile security situation and constant population movement, robust micro plans have been developed to ensure the campaign is responsive to the significant population shifts and displacement in the north following the first round in September,” the UN agencies for health, WHO, and for children,...

UN chief ‘shocked’ at harrowing death and destruction in north Gaza

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·October 27, 2024·1 min read

Since the offensive began earlier this month, hundreds of people have been killed, according to Gaza’s Ministry of Health, with more than 60,000 others displaced again, many fearing they may never return. Civilians are reportedly trapped under rubble, while the sick and wounded lack access to life-saving care. They also...

‘Entire population of north Gaza at risk of dying,’ warns UN’s top humanitarian official

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·October 27, 2024·1 min read

“What Israeli forces are doing in besieged north Gaza cannot be allowed to continue,” said Joyce Msuya, acting Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and UN Emergency Relief Coordinator, in a statement posted on the social media platform X. Hospitals have been hit, health workers detained and first responders prevented from rescuing...

WHO concerned following raid on North Gaza hospital

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·October 25, 2024·3 min read

“Since this morning’s reports of a raid of Kamal Adwan Hospital in northern Gaza, we have lost touch with the personnel there,” WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus wrote on the social media platform X. “This development is deeply disturbing given the number of patients being served and people sheltering there,”...

Gaza: Polio could spread unless vaccines reach war-torn north

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·October 24, 2024·4 min read

“It is imperative to stop the polio outbreak in Gaza before more children are paralysed and the virus spreads,” said Louise Wateridge, spokesperson for the UN agency for Palestine refugees, UNRWA. “The vaccination campaign must be facilitated in the north through the implementation of humanitarian pauses.” To interrupt transmission, at...

Gaza: Israeli strikes delay polio vaccine campaign in the north

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·October 23, 2024·3 min read

“Humanitarian pauses are essential for its success, allowing partners to deliver vaccination supplies to health facilities, families to safely access vaccination sites, and mobile teams of health workers to reach children in their communities,” the UN Health agency said on the eve of World Polio Day, marked annually on 24...

Security Council meets on north Gaza as ‘supplies for survival’ run out

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·October 16, 2024·10 min read

Joyce Msuya, Acting Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs, briefed ambassadors on the situation in the north, where fighting has escalated. Hospitals are running out of fuel and critical medical supplies, and food stocks are dwindling. Patients burned alive Ms. Msuya said that since her last briefing a week ago, the people...

Gaza: UN chief condemns rising civilian casualties in the north

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·October 15, 2024·2 min read

Israeli forces struck tents sheltering displaced civilians near al Aqsa hospital, in an area where people from northern Gaza were told to relocate. At least four people were burned to death, and scores of others, including women and children, suffered severe burns. Just hours earlier, another strike on a school...

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,...