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Songs of hope rise from Gaza’s ruins
In Al-Jundi Al-Majhool Square – once the bustling heart of Gaza City – music now floats among the tents. The …
In Al-Jundi Al-Majhool Square – once the bustling heart of Gaza City – music now floats among the tents. The …
Starving Gazans continue to be deprived of aid as international relief efforts are being severely constrained…
Desperate hunger drove crowds of people to overrun a World Food Programme (WFP) warehouse in central Gaza on …
The United Nations has called for restraint following another wave of escalation between Houthi rebels in Yem…
Gaza’s population is being “starved and denied the very basics,” while the region stands at a dangerous cross…
In Gaza, dozens of Palestinians have been reportedly injured and shot trying to collect aid from the new US a…
The UN International Organization for Migration (IOM) has welcomed recent decisions by the United States, the…
Reports indicated on Tuesday that Israel’s controversial aid distribution plan had begun in Gaza as the Unite…
Myanmar’s spiralling human rights crisis – fuelled by relentless military violence, systemic impunity and eco…
After another deadly weekend of Israeli attacks in Gaza, aid teams stressed once again on Monday that the “tr…
Diplomats convened at UN Headquarters in New York on Friday to lay the groundwork for a crucial international…
The UN Secretary-General on Friday outlined a five-stage plan to provide lifesaving aid to the stricken popul…
Millions of people in Syria continue to face mortal danger from unexploded munitions, disease and malnutritio…
Long-awaited food supplies have been looted in Gaza overnight while being transported to desperate communitie…
More than half the people killed in Gaza over the past week were in shelters and residential buildings, the U…
UN agencies in Gaza confirmed on Thursday that desperately needed aid has finally arrived at warehouses insid…
After years of stalemate and suffering, Syria is beginning to see renewed international engagement. from UN…
UN aid workers said on Wednesday that they are still waiting for permission from Israel to distribute five tr…
Aid is trickling into Gaza after nearly three months of blockade, but it remains far from enough to meet the …
Syrians trying to rebuild their lives in their war-torn country urgently need the support of the rest of the …
The UN humanitarian affairs chief has welcomed Israel’s decision to allow limited aid to cross into Gaza afte…
Amid intensifying Israeli bombing and ground operations in Gaza, the UN’s relief coordination agency, OCHA, s…
The United Nations will never forget the staff members killed in the 19 August 2003 attack on its headquarter…
Humanitarians demand access to the Gaza Strip and already have a plan in place to deliver life-saving aid to …
The UN human rights office (OHCHR) called on Friday for an end to senseless killings in the occupied West Ban…
Amid reports that Israeli strikes across Gaza overnight Friday killed at least 64 people, aid teams once agai…
Intensified hostilities continue in the Gaza Strip, bringing further death, displacement and destruction as t…
Between 2016 and 2024, the number of Egyptians with a bank account – which experts say is essential for finan…
The UN humanitarian affairs office, OCHA, underlined the need to protect civilians and healthcare facilities …
The ceasefire between the United States and Houthi rebels in Yemen provides an opportunity to revitalize the …
No aid has entered Gaza for more than 10 weeks and every single one of the 2.1 million people there faces fam…
The Security Council is set to meet this afternoon at 3 PM in New York to discuss the deepening crisis in Gaz…
UN Secretary-General António Guterres welcomed the release of a hostage held in in Gaza on Monday and renewed…
Gazans remain at “critical risk of famine”, UN-backed food security experts warned on Monday, a full 19 month…
Every summer in Ma’rib, Yemen, a place marked by loss and uncertainty, a football tournament offers a rare ki…
Israel’s plan to take control of relief assistance in Gaza would put civilian lives in danger and cause mass …
The UN agency for Palestine refugees, UNRWA, has strongly condemned the forced entry by Israeli security forc…
Students displaced by the war in Gaza have been channeling their anguish into art in psychosocial support ses…
Grim details emerged on Wednesday of Israeli airstrikes on a UN-run school in Gaza sheltering 2,000 displaced…
The reported Israeli proposal to deliver humanitarian supplies through hubs controlled by the military would …
The UN Secretary-General is alarmed by reports of Israeli plans to expand ground operations and prolong its m…
The UN and partners on Sunday issued a stark warning over the deepening humanitarian crisis in Gaza, as Israe…
UN Secretary-General António Guterres is following developments in Syria, where fresh fighting in the capital…
"After losing my leg in the war, I returned to photojournalism not just for work, but because I have lov…
Two months into a devastating aid blockade of Gaza food has run out and people are fighting over water amid r…
The UN’s top humanitarian official on Thursday issued a stark warning over the continuing blockade of aid int…