Gaza blockade Stories

Gaza: International community must ‘match words with action’ now
UN News  |  Sep 13, 2025

Olga Cherevko, Spokesperson in Gaza for the UN aid coordination office OCHA, warned that history will not judge the international community “based on...

Letter from Mideast: From hope to heartbreak - my Gaza since Israel's "disengagement"
XINHUA  |  Sep 12, 2025

I left Gaza, but Gaza never left me. It lives in my dreams, in my fears, and in my children's questions. I hope - yes, I still hope - to return someda...

Israeli strike in Doha marks ‘alarming escalation’, warns top UN official
UN News  |  Sep 12, 2025

Qatar, the Gulf Cooperation Council, the League of Arab States, and the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation condemned the action and expressed concern...

UN rights chief calls on US to withdraw sanctions against Palestinian rights groups
UN News  |  Sep 06, 2025

While WHO is doing the best it can to alleviate suffering in Gaza, supporting medical evacuations of over 7,640 patients, more than 15,000 others need...

The ‘unthinkable’ is underway in Gaza City, UNICEF warns
UN News  |  Sep 05, 2025

Only 44 out of 92 UNICEF-supported outpatient nutrition treatment centres are still functional, which means thousands of malnourished children lack ac...

At least 21,000 children disabled due to Israel's war on Gaza - UN
Bashir Mbuthia  |  Sep 04, 2025

According to CRPD, displacement orders issued by Israel in Gaza have posed challenges for vulnerable groups, particularly those with hearing and visua...

US bars Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, 80 officials from attending UN meeting in New York
Maureen Kinyanjui  |  Aug 30, 2025

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio accused Palestinian leaders of undermining peace and pushing for “the unilateral recognition of a conjectural Palest...

Killing of journalists in Gaza hospital attack ‘should shock the world’: UN rights office
UN News  |  Aug 27, 2025

The OHCHR spokesperson told journalists in Geneva that Israeli authorities had carried out investigations in the past, as the occupying power.

Aid workers accuse NGOs of 'whitewashing' Israel's Gaza war
DW News  |  Aug 23, 2025

Several international NGOs have limited their language and advocacy on the topic of Gaza, a DW investigation found. They fear that Israel might otherw...

Hunger in Gaza: Women and children face death in search of food
UN News  |  Aug 22, 2025

The race for food is not limited to men. Women are forced to take this risk, driven by the responsibilities of motherhood and the needs of their child...

Antonio Guterres renews ceasefire appeal as Israel intensifies assault on Gaza
Bashir Mbuthia  |  Aug 21, 2025

According to the UN Human Rights Office (OHCHR), the Israeli army has been issuing evacuation orders across wide areas of Jabalya, using quadcopters t...

‘There’s no such thing as someone else’s children’ – Omar El Akkad bears witness to Gaza destruction, West’s quiet assent
The Conversation  |  Aug 21, 2025

Wells also catalogued how news outlets told those stories. They minced words to protect the perpetrators, while smearing the reputations of the dead,...

UN warns Gaza crisis could worsen without safe, unrestricted aid flow
UN News  |  Aug 16, 2025

Between May 27 and August 8, the Red Cross Field Hospital in Rafah treated more than 4,500 wounded patients – most reporting injuries sustained while...

Israel reportedly in talks with South Sudan to displace Palestinians from Gaza
Bashir Mbuthia  |  Aug 13, 2025

According to Joe Szlavik, Juba wants Washington to lift its travel ban on South Sudan and remove sanctions against some of its political elites, a sig...

Iran urges extraordinary OIC meeting on Gaza humanitarian catastrophe
XINHUA  |  Aug 08, 2025

On Tuesday, multiple Israeli media outlets reported that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is set to announce plans to fully occupy Gaza.

MSF calls for immediate closure of US and Israeli-backed aid group in Gaza
Mary Wambui  |  Aug 07, 2025

On Tuesday, UN experts called for the dismantling of the foundation, saying it was being exploited for covert military operations.

Global survey finds majority back cutting arms sales to Israel over Gaza war
Bashir Mbuthia  |  Aug 07, 2025

The findings come amid growing international condemnation of Israel's military campaign in Gaza, which has reportedly killed more than 60,000 Palestin...

Why UK recognition of a Palestinian state should not be conditional on Israel’s actions
The Conversation  |  Aug 05, 2025

Conditional recognition subject to action by Israel – a third state – represents an unwelcome and arguably dangerous departure from international prac...

58 ex-EU ambassadors accuse Israel of genocide in Gaza, warn bloc risks complicity in war crimes
Bashir Mbuthia  |  Aug 05, 2025

While reaffirming their condemnation of Hamas' October 7, 2023, attack on Israel, the ambassadors said the scale and persistence of Israel's response...

No Palestine 'left to recognise' without two-state solution pathway, Australian FM warns
XINHUA  |  Aug 05, 2025

FM Penny Wong reiterated previous comments from Treasurer Jim Chalmers that it is a matter of "when, not if" Australia will move to formally recognise...

Italy to evacuate sick Palestinian children for medical treatment
DW News  |  Aug 02, 2025

Rome plans to evacuate Palestinian children in need of medical treatment from the Gaza Strip.

UN Women says 1 million women, girls starving in Gaza
XINHUA  |  Jul 29, 2025

Women-led organisations inside Gaza describe how women are boiling discarded food scraps to feed their children, and risking being killed when searchi...

Pressure mounts on Israel to allow aid access in Gaza
Mary Wambui  |  Jul 25, 2025

On Friday morning, Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese called on Israel to comply with its obligations under International law, including allow...

Over 100 NGOs call for urgent access routes for aid into Gaza
Mary Wambui  |  Jul 23, 2025

The 109 NGOs, including CARE, Amnesty International, American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) and ActionAid, are reiterating that the UN-led humanita...

Kenya endorses two-state solution amid Gaza crisis talks
Mwangi Maina  |  Jul 18, 2025

While reaffirming Kenya's limited leverage in military affairs, Foreign Affairs Cabinet Secretary Musali Mudavadi emphasised its commitment to diploma...

Israeli army using Chinese drones to bomb civilians in Gaza - report
Lucy Mumbi  |  Jul 14, 2025

The drones are being manually operated by soldiers on the ground to drop grenades on civilians, including children, either to force them from their ho...

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