Situation in southern Gaza ‘horrific and apocalpytic’: WFP
Matthew Hollingsworth, WFP Country Director in Palestine, warned that with limited access to the south “we will no doubt see what we saw happen in the north in the first months of the war”. Mr. Hollingsworth recently spent 10 days…
Top UN officials urge comprehensive approach to Syria’s protracted crisis
Martin Griffiths, the UN Emergency Relief Coordinator, highlighted the worsening humanitarian crisis, noting that 16.7 million people now require humanitarian assistance – the highest number since the conflict began 13 years ago. He stressed that the situation is deteriorating…
Amid ongoing Israeli incursions into Gaza, aid facilities shut ‘one after another’
“Humanitarian facilities in Rafah are forced to close one after another…The flow of humanitarian aid supplies into Gaza, already insufficient to meet the soaring needs, has dropped by 67 per cent since 7 May,” reported the UN aid coordination office,…
Gaza: UN Middle East envoy reiterates call for ceasefire, hostage release agreement
In a briefing to the Security Council, Tor Wennesland emphasised the urgent need for all sides to change course. “We must reach an agreement to release the hostages and put in place an immediate ceasefire. There is absolutely no time…
Gaza medics struggling in face of ‘overwhelming disaster’ as vital supplies run low: WHO
“We have distributed an enormous amount of essential medical supplies, but it’s not enough. I mean, this is such an overwhelming disaster, it’s not enough,” said Dr. Rik Peeperkorn, the UN World Health Organization (WHO) representative in Palestine. Speaking in…
Guterres ‘heartbroken’ by images of deadly strikes on Rafah camp
Mr. Guterres repeated his longstanding call for a ceasefire in the embattled enclave and the release of all hostages. “He is heartbroken by the images of the killed and injured, including many small children. As he has said before, the…
Gaza: Rafah camp attack heightens focus on dwindling health resources
Many of those injured suffered terrible burns, according to the World Health Organization (WHO), which will require intensive treatment, electricity and high-level medical services, all of which are scarce after nearly eight months of war. Massive medical challenge It is…
Deep concerns over ‘inhuman’ detention of Gazans by Israeli authorities
In a new report on the situation in Gaza for May 2024, the authors cited testimonies “from medics and whistleblowers” that injured detainees have been held at a field hospital with “shackled hands and feet and blindfolded 24/7 to their beds”….
Gaza: UN officials condemn Israeli airstrikes on camp for displaced
Volker Türk, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, voiced his horror at further loss of civilian lives in the war-ravaged enclave. “The images from the camp are horrific and point to no apparent change in the methods and means of…
Gaza: World court orders Israel to halt military operations in Rafah
This follows a request from South Africa in a pending case accusing Israel of violating its obligations under the Genocide Convention. Reading the new provisional measures in an open session at the court in The Hague, ICJ Justice Nawaf Salam…