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Gaza Strip: Humanitarians warn of worsening famine conditions, attacks on civilians
Famine conditions are tightening their grip on the Gaza Strip, as the latest UN humanitarian update warns of …
Famine conditions are tightening their grip on the Gaza Strip, as the latest UN humanitarian update warns of …
In Gaza, UN aid teams continued their efforts on Thursday to help people of the war-shattered enclave by retr…
With Gaza in ruins and the two-State solution in jeopardy, ministers convened at the United Nations this week…
Despite daily “tactical pauses” declared by Israeli forces, humanitarian conditions in Gaza remain catastroph…
Welcome to our live coverage of the third day of high-level international conference at UN Headquarters, aime…
Welcome to our continuing live coverage of the high-level international conference at UN Headquarters, aimed …
“The worst-case scenario of famine is currently playing out in Gaza,” UN-backed food security experts said on…
A fragile de-escalation in Syria’s Sweida region is “largely holding” after weeks of violence displaced 175,0…
Welcome to our live coverage of the high-level international conference at UN Headquarters, aimed at advancin…
A world in which a sovereign State of Palestine and Israel co-exist peacefully seems a distant prospect, part…
As starvation worsens in war-torn Gaza, UN agencies repeated warnings on Monday that Israel’s decision to sup…
United Nations agencies welcomed on Sunday Israel’s pledge to implement daily humanitarian pauses in its mili…
In the centre of war-torn Gaza, UN staff continue to work despite the “unprecedented” destruction and sufferi…
“People in Gaza are neither dead nor alive, they are walking corpses.” from UN News - Global perspective H…
A second convoy from the Syrian Arab Red Crescent (SARC) reached battered Sweida on Wednesday, the UN Spokesp…
A senior UN official on Wednesday urged the Security Council to push for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza and t…
Pregnant women and newborns in Gaza face “catastrophic” conditions, including a dysfunctional healthcare syst…
The Security Council meets today for its quarterly open debate on the situation in the Middle East, with a fo…
Ongoing sectarian violence in Sweida, Syria has triggered mass displacement in the area as humanitarians atte…
UN Secretary-General António Guterres is appalled by the accelerating breakdown of humanitarian conditions in…
Hadriya collapses from hunger, Khadija dreams of her kitchen and Hiyam longs for her daughters’ laughter in t…
After another deadly weekend in Gaza in which at least 67 Palestinians were reportedly killed seeking food, U…
The continued onslaught and mass deprivation of people in the Gaza Strip is becoming normalised, the UN aid c…
Amid violent clashes in southern Syria’s Sweida governorate, a picture of grave human rights abuses and risin…
A surge in sectarian violence in southern Syria and Israeli airstrikes reaching central Damascus have pushed …
UN Secretary-General António Guterres has strongly condemned the Israeli strike on Thursday that hit the only…
The Security Council met on Thursday afternoon for an emergency session on Syria after deadly violence in the…
Conditions in Gaza have reached an unspeakable level of devastation with children paying the highest price, t…
Clashes between Bedouin tribal fighters, caretaker government forces and Druze militias stretched into their …
In Gaza, illness, poverty, mass displacement and depleted services are leading to soaring stress levels and c…
New evacuation orders in Gaza issued by the Israeli military have uprooted tens of thousands of Palestinians,…
The ongoing 21-month-long war in Gaza has seen more than 58,000 killed and 100,000 wounded as Israeli attacks…
Inter-ethnic violence in Syria’s predominantly Druze city of Sweida has been met with government intervention…
Nearly 900 desperate and hungry Gazans have been killed in recent weeks trying to fetch food, with most death…
The Security Council on Monday renewed the mandate of the UN mission in Yemen’s key port city of Hudaydah, as…
The head of UN child rights agency UNICEF has called for Israel to review its rules of engagement in Gaza aft…
The fuel crisis in Gaza has reached a breaking point, threatening to bring all humanitarian operations to a h…
Humanitarian needs in the Gaza Strip “have never been higher” while the ability to assist the population has …
The UN Secretary-General issued a statement on Friday condemning the latest Houthi rebel attacks on shipping …
Following the deaths of several children in an Israeli strike on Palestinians waiting in line for nutritional…
The head of the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has voiced deep dismay over the “unconscionable” killing of child…
Top UN human rights officials have voiced serious concern over the imposition of sanctions by the United Stat…
As scores of people – including medical staff and their families – have reportedly been killed in the past we…
Yemen continues to face a dire humanitarian crisis, driven by acute hunger, economic collapse, and regional i…
UN humanitarians have warned that the catastrophic conditions in Gaza are worsening, as tents, schools, homes…
The UN Secretary-General is “appalled” by the deepening humanitarian crisis in Gaza, as civilians face yet an…
A key water reservoir serving Khan Younis in southern Gaza has become inaccessible following new Israeli disp…
The United Nations on Tuesday reported that humanitarian operations in Gaza are facing escalating strain, as …
Conflicts in the Middle East and North Africa in the last two years reportedly killed, maimed, or displaced o…