Gaza aid ready to roll in once final deal reached
Some 3,000 tonnes of supplies have been awaiting entry on the Egyptian side of the crossing since Saturday. On Wednesday, the UN Security Council failed to agree on a resolution…
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…
Explainer: What’s inside aid convoy at Gaza crossing
As humanitarians continued to echo the UN Secretary-General’s urgent calls on Israel to open a safe aid delivery corridor, Gaza will soon run out of basic supplies, according to UN…
World News in Brief: UN ‘committed’ to aid Ukraine, blue helmets exit northern Mali, Chad update
That’s according to Humanitarian Coordinator Denise Brown, who led a convoy at the weekend carrying aid for around 1,000 civilians to Chasiv Yar, just six kilometres from the frontline in…
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…
Explainer: How UN delivers life-saving aid amid crises
One in every 33 people (that’s 242 million people) on the planet needed humanitarian assistance in 2022, and most of that aid was coordinated through the UN. Here’s how the…
World News in Brief: Reducing disaster risk for persons with disabilities, Afghan quake latest, global aid funding off track
Persons with disabilities face a “shocking lack of support” with no progress in the last decade, despite a huge increase in climate disasters worldwide, the new UN Office for Disaster…
UN teams ramp up aid after another earthquake strikes Afghanistan
The 6.3 magnitude earthquake struck near the city of Herat at 5:10 AM (00:40 AM GMT) local time, injuring over 100 people, many of whom were taken to hospitals, according…
From the Field: How UN distributes food aid in Gaza, West Bank
A World Food Programme (WFP) staff member distributes bread to a family sheltered at a UN school in Gaza. Calling for establishing safe humanitarian corridors to facilitate aid deliveries, WFP…
500 still missing following Afghanistan earthquake, say UN aid teams
At the epicentre of the earthquake in Zindajan district, the UN aid coordination office (OCHA) recorded nearly 1,300 deaths and 1,700 injuries. In some places, entire villages have been destroyed,…