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Another child dies in extreme conditions in Gaza: UNICEF
A sixth child has died in Gaza this month as Palestinians continue to endure dire living conditions linked to…
A sixth child has died in Gaza this month as Palestinians continue to endure dire living conditions linked to…
Severe weather conditions have led to further casualties and heightened health risks in Gaza over the past 24…
One United Nations peacekeeper was injured on Friday after heavy machine gunfire from Israel Defense Forces (…
UN Secretary-General António Guterres “unequivocally condemns” the deadly terrorist attack on a mosque in Hom…
The war in Sudan has been tearing the country apart for almost 1,000 days, putting the country’s health syste…
Better access to education, the protection of the environment and good governance are some of the areas in wh…
Although “significant restrictions and impediments” continue to hamper humanitarian operations in Gaza, team…
Despite the ceasefire in the Gaza Strip, humanitarians continue to receive reports of airstrikes, shelling an…
Past geopolitical tensions related to the synthetic drug “captagon” are now being mitigated with the Syrian a…
Food security in Gaza has improved since the ceasefire declared in October, pushing back famine conditions, b…
A pregnant woman in Gaza thought she might lose her child because of malnourishment. Ten days ago, she gave b…
Humanitarian needs in Syria remain immense despite a year of reduced violence and political change, with mill…
Humanitarian agencies working in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT) have warned that life-saving aid op…
UN Secretary-General António Guterres called on Yemen’s leaders to return to the path of peace and release al…
The ceasefire in Gaza remains fragile, while humanitarians continue to face obstructions in delivering aid to…
Israel has issued new demolition orders for the Nur Shams camp in the north of the occupied West Bank effecti…
Amid an early start to the Northern Hemisphere influenza season a new variant of the virus is rapidly gaining…
Humanitarian assistance in Gaza is being delayed because aid cargo is routinely deprioritised in favour of co…
The United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI) is ending operations this month but support for the co…
The UN human rights office, OHCHR, has expressed alarm at reports of a so-called “settler road” being built i…
After more than two decades working alongside Iraq through war, political upheaval and the fight against ISIL…
Gaza’s health system for mothers and newborns has been “decimated”, the UN said on Thursday, with Israeli att…
In Gaza, as airstrikes, shelling and gunfire continued to kill and maim Palestinians, UN human rights chief V…
Mothers who've been left starving in Gaza are now giving birth to underweight or premature babies who die…
A year after the fall of the Assad regime opened the door to political and judicial reform, Syria’s future is…
The UN agency that assists Palestine refugees, UNRWA, said that Israeli police raided its compound in East Je…
The UN Secretary-General has marked the first anniversary of the collapse of Bashar al-Assad’s regime, callin…
Nearly two months after the latest ceasefire in the Gaza Strip on 10 October, a fragile calm has brought much…
A spike in Israeli military raids and settler violence across the occupied West Bank is driving new displacem…
Summary executions and other violations continue in Syria nearly a year after the fall of the Assad regime, t…
Every week in Gaza, at least 15 women give birth outside any health facility, often without a trained midwife…
The Arab region is heating at nearly twice the global average, UN weather experts warned on Thursday, after 2…
The UN has called for an investigation into the recent “horrific” killing by Israeli forces of two young brot…
The UN human rights office, OHCHR, has condemned an Israeli raid on the Union of Agricultural Work Committees…
The President of the UN General Assembly called on Tuesday for greater action to uphold the rights of the Pal…
The recent parliamentary elections in Iraq mark a fitting end to the work of the UN Mission in the country, t…
More than 260 media professionals were killed in the recent hostilities in Gaza – the deadliest conflict for …
The UN says humanitarian partners in Gaza are scaling up winterisation efforts as cold weather and heavy rain…