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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.

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...

UN declares famine in Gaza as over half a million people face starvation
Rachael Mutabasi  |  Aug 22, 2025

The Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO), UNICEF, the World Food Programme (WFP), and the World Health Organisation (WHO) stressed that immediate a...

Amid ongoing Israeli attacks, ‘the systematic destruction of Gaza City is already underway’: UN rights office
UN News  |  Aug 21, 2025

Since August 8, the office has recorded 54 attacks on residential buildings and entire blocks in Gaza City, killing 87 Palestinians, including at leas...

Amnesty accuses Israel of intentionally starving Gaza population
DW News  |  Aug 19, 2025

Amnesty's Monday report cited testimonies of displaced Palestinians and medical staff who treated malnourished children.

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...

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.

A father, a witness: Gaza journalist documents war while living its daily horror
UN News  |  Aug 05, 2025

Thousands have died and much of Gaza has been laid to waste, but life must continue, according to the correspondent, who is remaining anonymous for se...

Gaza: ‘No one should ever be forced to risk their life to find food,’ says UN humanitarian agency
UN News  |  Aug 02, 2025

As one in three people currently go days without food, OCHA reiterated that no one should ever be forced to risk their life to get something to eat.

Gaza's humanitarian crisis in numbers
DW News  |  Jul 25, 2025

The situation in the Gaza Strip is catastrophic: scant aid supplies are trickling in while international organizations warn of a famine. Here are the...

Dreams amid the rubble: Gaza women speak of homes, loss and hungry children
UN News  |  Jul 22, 2025

Many have been forced to flee the fighting dozens of times. Most find themselves homeless and hungry while facing an uncertain future.

UN chief ‘appalled’ by worsening Gaza crisis as civilians face displacement, aid blockades
UN News  |  Jul 05, 2025

On just one day this week, nearly 30,000 people were forced to flee under new Israeli relocation orders, with no safe place to go and clearly inadequa...

UNICEF warns children may begin to die of 'man-made drought' soon in Gaza
DW News  |  Jun 20, 2025

UNICEF said Gaza now faces a "man-made drought," warning that if an ongoing fuel blockade of over 100 days is not lifted, "children will begin to die...

More Gazans killed trying to get food, healthcare near to ‘full disaster’
UN News  |  Jun 18, 2025

The mass casualty event left “hundreds of casualties, completely overwhelming Nasser Medical Complex” in Khan Younis, said WHO’s Representative in the...

Humanitarians must be able to deliver aid in Gaza, UN agencies insist
UN News  |  Jun 15, 2025

Restoring connectivity is urgent. OCHA said the Israeli military recently posted a warning on social media where areas marked in red on a map are cons...

UN General Assembly adopts Gaza ceasefire resolution by overwhelming majority
UN News  |  Jun 13, 2025

The resolution was backed by 149 Member States, with 12 voting against and 19 abstaining. Among those opposing the resolution were the United States a...

Israel stops aid ship attempting to reach Gaza
DW News  |  Jun 09, 2025

A ship with aid supplies for Gaza carrying Greta Thunberg and other activists was stopped by Israel from reaching the Palestinian enclave. Israel had...

UK, France, Canada threaten sanctions against Israel over Gaza war
Bashir Mbuthia  |  May 20, 2025

The three countries criticised Israel's ongoing military operations in Gaza, describing the level of human suffering as intolerable.

Deadly Israeli strikes pound Gaza, Trump says 'people are starving'
Reuters  |  May 16, 2025

Israel has intensified its bombardment and built up armoured forces along the border despite growing international pressure for it to resume ceasefire...

High risk of famine persists across Gaza, global hunger monitor says
Reuters  |  Jun 26, 2024

Under "catastrophic" food insecurity, households suffer an extreme lack of food, leading to acute malnutrition in young children, an imminent risk of...

Gaza 'choked off' from aid since crossings shut, UN agencies say
Reuters  |  May 07, 2024

Israel has shut down both the Rafah and Kerem Shalom crossings for aid and people as part of its military operation in Rafah.

UNRWA chief says Israel blocked him from entering Gaza
AFP  |  Mar 18, 2024

UNRWA chief Philippe Lazzarini said he had "intended to go into Rafah today, but was informed my entry had been declined.

Ramadan brings no relief as Israel-Hamas war rages in Gaza
AFP  |  Mar 11, 2024

"The start of Ramadan has been sad and covered in darkness, with the taste and stench of blood everywhere," said one displaced Palestinian man, Awni a...

South Africa urges more emergency ICJ measures against Israel over Gaza starvation
AFP  |  Mar 07, 2024

Pretoria said this may be "the last opportunity the Court shall have to save the Palestinian people in Gaza already dying of starvation, and now 'one...

Children starving to death in northern Gaza - WHO
Barack Oduor  |  Mar 05, 2024

At least 15 children had died from malnutrition and dehydration at the Kamal Adwan hospital.

AU chief accuses Israel of 'mass killing of Palestinians' seeking aid
AFP  |  Mar 02, 2024

Israeli troops opened fire as Palestinian civilians scrambled for food supplies during a chaotic melee on Thursday that the Hamas-run territory's heal...

Kenyans in Mombasa march for Gaza as famine fears deepen
Farhiya Hussein  |  Feb 24, 2024

The procession aimed to promote awareness among both Muslims and Christians, pushing them to unify and join efforts for a permanent truce.

Nations pausing UN Gaza funding could be violating genocide convention: expert
Agency  |  Jan 28, 2024

A number of donor countries -- including Australia, Britain, Finland, Germany and Italy -- on Saturday followed the lead of the United States in suspe...

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