Gaza: Over a quarter of UNRWA centre patients needing mental health support

adminMay 23, 2023September 13, 202404 mins

This is the highest rate of mental health need ever recorded, across UNRWA’s medical system. UNRWA’s health programmes support some two million Palestine refugees across Jordan, Lebanon, the occupied Palestinian territory composed of the West Bank, including East Jerusalem and Gaza, as well as in Syria. Immensely challenging year Speaking to reporters in Geneva, Dr….

Central Mediterranean: Deadliest quarter for migrant deaths in six years

adminApril 12, 2023September 11, 202405 mins

IOM’s Missing Migrants Project documented 441 deaths during this period, though the true toll is likely to be higher. Investigations continue into several reports of so-called invisible shipwrecks – cases where boats are reported missing but there are no records of survivors or search and rescue (SAR) operations. The fates of more than 300…