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Cairo peace talks offer new hope for Gaza as Hamas signals readiness for truce
Bashir Mbuthia  |  Oct 05, 2025

The talks, mediated by Egypt and supported by the United States, follow Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s statement that a hostage release d...

Gaza health system overwhelmed as WHO reports 42,000 people have life-changing injuries
UN News  |  Oct 03, 2025

WHO stressed the urgent need for fuel, medical supplies, prosthetics, and assistive devices, alongside protection for health workers. Medical evacuati...

MSF suspends medical services amid intensified Israeli offensive in Gaza City
Maureen Kinyanjui  |  Sep 27, 2025

Hospitals across the Gaza Strip are partially functional and overwhelmed, grappling with critical shortages of staff, supplies, and fuel. Patients who...

Gaza: Four more hospitals shut amid ongoing Israeli offensive
UN News  |  Sep 27, 2025

According to the UN health agency, all but one of the dozen reported attacks on healthcare between September 7 and September  17 have been in Gaza Cit...

Gaza City suffering escalates as Israeli strikes inflict more heavy casualties
UN News  |  Sep 26, 2025

Among many reported attacks in the last week, on 19 September, a four-year-old boy and a five-year-old girl were killed and others injured when their...

Recommit to a two-state solution for Israel-Palestine conflict, ‘before it’s too late’: Guterres
UN News  |  Sep 23, 2025

The UK, Canada, Australia and Portugal recognised a Palestinian State on Sunday, and President Macron announced that France would join them – to lengt...

Which countries recognize Palestinian statehood?
DW News  |  Sep 20, 2025

Despite widespread international recognition of Palestine as a state, some Western nations say they will only endorse Palestinian statehood as part of...

Gazans flee ‘death and devastation’ with no transportation or means of shelter
UN News  |  Sep 20, 2025

On average, the journey south costs more than $3,000 (Sh387,000), according to the UN Palestine refugee agency UNRWA, making it out of reach for many.

Civilian lifelines collapsing in Gaza City, UN humanitarians say
XINHUA  |  Sep 19, 2025

The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said that in just the past five days, 11 emergency shelters for about 11,000 people...

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...

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.

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...

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...

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...

France to officially recognise Palestinian state in September, Emmanuel Macron announces
Maureen Kinyanjui  |  Jul 25, 2025

The recognition will be officially declared during the United Nations General Assembly session in September, marking a significant shift in the diplom...

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...

At least 21 children die of hunger in 3 days as Gaza starvation death toll passes 100
Bashir Mbuthia  |  Jul 22, 2025

The crisis continues to deepen as humanitarian aid remains severely restricted, with widespread shortages of food, clean water, and collapsing medical...

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...

Six children killed in Israeli strike while queuing for water in Gaza
Bashir Mbuthia  |  Jul 13, 2025

Unverified videos shared online showed bloodied children and bodies at the scene, as residents rushed to evacuate the wounded using private cars and d...

Eid ul-Fitr in Gaza shadowed by bleakness as Israeli bombardment continues
XINHUA  |  Mar 31, 2025

As dawn broke, Abu Mohammed Abed stood in front of a dilapidated tent in the Al-Nuseirat refugee camp, wiping away his tears as he struggled to comfor...

Gaza residents stream home to the north after hostage breakthrough
Reuters  |  Jan 28, 2025

Families repeatedly displaced after over 15 months of war erupted in cheers at shelters and tent encampments when they heard the crossings would be op...

Four Israeli soldiers swapped for 200 Palestinians; north Gaza shut over hostages
Reuters  |  Jan 26, 2025

Cheering crowds greeted the releases on either side, including Israelis gathered in Tel Aviv and Palestinians assembled in Ramallah.

Israeli strikes kill 17 Palestinians in Gaza as mediators yet to secure ceasefire
Reuters  |  Dec 22, 2024

Palestinian medics said eight people, including children, were killed in the Musa Bin Nusayr School that sheltered displaced families in Gaza City.

Gaza update: Fleeing families just have ‘the clothes on their back’
UN News  |  Nov 24, 2024

Wateridge said that, for almost 50 days, UN humanitarian missions have attempted to deliver supplies to northern Gaza, including besieged areas such a...

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