A stark example of this escalation was highlighted by the Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO), Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, who confirmed that the Kamal Adwan hospital in North Gaza is now out of service.   On 27 December, the facility was raided, its patients and staff were forcibly evacuated, and...
UN aid coordination office, OCHA, reported that the cross-border operation from Türkiye into the northwest is running without impediments. On Tuesday, 21 trucks carrying 500 metric tonnes of food – enough for 175,000 people – from the UN World Food Programme (WFP) crossed into Idlib through the Bab Al-Hawa border...
“The world is not seeing what’s going on with these people, it’s impossible for families to shelter in these conditions,” said Louise Wateridge, from the UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA). Speaking from Nuseirat in central Gaza after heavy winter rains overnight and into Friday morning, the  UNRWA Senior Emergency Officer...
The surge in aid follows a large-scale effort launched by WFP to address the growing humanitarian crisis caused by the conflict that erupted in April 2023. October marked a record month, with WFP reaching 2.8 million people across Sudan with food, cash, and nutrition assistance – the highest monthly total...
The Secretary-General’s Special Envoy for Syria, Geir Pedersen, arrived there a week after President Bashar al-Assad was overthrown by rebel forces led by the Islamist group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTC). Responding to questions from the press upon his arrival, Mr. Pedersen noted the “immense” change since the fall of the...
Contributions to the Fund save lives, UN Secretary-General António Guterres said in a video message to the event.  He urged Member States to “dig deeper”, calling for new donors to step forward, to meet the $1 billion annual target to support allocations over the coming year.  Assisting people worldwide  CERF...
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