Gaza: WHO adopts resolution on access for lifesaving aid
This is the first time since 7 October that a resolution on this conflict has been adopted by consensus within the UN system, the UN health agency noted. It underscores…
Gaza: Aid access to north now entirely blocked amid escalating bombing raids in south
The latest update from the UN aid coordination office, OCHA, confirmed rising casualties and devastation amid “heavy Israeli bombardment from air, land and sea”. “From the afternoon of (Saturday) 2…
Gaza: start of truce feeds hopes for respite, access to people in need: UN humanitarians
They reiterated calls for access to all parts of the war-shattered enclave where the death toll inched towards 15,000 and many displaced people were sleeping in the streets. UN humanitarian…
Israel-Palestine crisis: UN humanitarians plead for ‘access, access, access’
“Every day, you think it is the worst day and then the next day is worse,” UN health agency spokesperson Christian Lindmeier said, quoting a colleague in Gaza, which remains…
WFP appeals for urgent expanded access to Gaza as food supplies ‘dangerously low’
“Right now, parents in Gaza do not know whether they can feed their children today and whether they will even survive to see tomorrow. The suffering just meters away is…
‘History is judging us all,’ Guterres says in fresh appeal for Gaza aid access
His call came just hours before UN agencies reported that phone lines, internet and mobile service in Gaza went down. “Gaza has lost contact with the outside world amid reports…
From Cairo, Guterres appeals for ‘sustained’ humanitarian access to Gaza
“For nearly two weeks the people of Gaza have gone without any shipments of fuel, food, water, medicine, and other essentials. Disease is spreading. Supplies are dwindling. People are dying,”…
Gaza: ‘History is watching’ warns UN relief chief, saying aid access is key priority
“History is watching,” Emergency Relief Coordinator Martin Griffiths told UN News in Geneva, highlighting the desperate situation facing around one million Gazans uprooted in the last week, after the Israeli…
Humanitarians call for urgent aid access to Gaza
No aid can come in from the outside for the 2.3 million residents of the sealed-off enclave, and some 220,000 displaced people are sheltering in schools run by the UN…
World News in Brief: Health access in Israel-Palestine, Myanmar bombing, child refugee mental health
“Over 1000 people have died and many more been injured following horrific acts of violence by Hamas on Saturday in Israel, and days of bombing by Israel in Gaza,” the…