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Gaza City suffering escalates as Israeli strikes inflict more heavy casualties

·September 26, 2025·2 min read

“Intensified strikes on Gaza City, including on tents, residential buildings, infrastructure continue to inflict heavy casualties,” the UN aid coordination agency, OCHA, said. In an update, the UN agency also noted that several health facilities have shut in Gaza City in the north of the enclave this month along with community...

Offensive shutters nearly half of all malnutrition centres in and around Gaza City

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·September 23, 2025·1 min read

That’s according to the UN humanitarian aid coordination office, OCHA, and UN partners working to provide life-saving support to civilians in the face of continuing Israeli restrictions on aid. The closure of nutrition services in Gaza governorate is hampering efforts to detect new famine victims and to keep treatment going...

UNICEF aid trucks robbed at gunpoint in Gaza City

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·September 20, 2025·2 min read

The appeal comes a day after “armed individuals” robbed four UNICEF trucks carrying desperately needed Ready-to-Use Therapeutic Food (RUTF). The incident occurred outside its compound in Gaza City, where an Israeli military offensive is escalating. Nearly 3,000 children impacted “The individuals commandeered the drivers at gun point and diverted the...

The ‘unthinkable’ is underway in Gaza City, UNICEF warns

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·September 8, 2025·4 min read

Tess Ingram, Communication Manager for UNICEF’s Middle East and North Africa Regional Office, recently spent nine days there, describing it as “a city of fear, flight and funerals.” “The last refuge for families in the northern Gaza Strip is fast becoming a place where childhood cannot survive,” she said, speaking...

UN rights office worried over escalation in Gaza City, annexation plans for West Bank

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·September 4, 2025·2 min read

Ajith Sunghay, Head of OHCHR’s Office in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT), told UN News that the escalation has caused extensive destruction to residential buildings in southern parts of North Gaza governorate and in northeastern areas of Gaza City. This has led to further civilian casualties and forced displacement. Local...

Amid massive destruction of Gaza City, UN chief renews ceasefire call

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·August 21, 2025·4 min read

“It is vital to reach immediately a ceasefire in Gaza,” the Secretary-General told reporters on the sidelines of the Ninth Tokyo International Conference on African Development (TICAD9), “and the unconditional release of all hostages and to avoid the massive death and destruction that a military operation against Gaza City would inevitably cause.”...

Israel’s military takeover of Gaza City would mark ‘a dangerous escalation’: Guterres

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·August 10, 2025·2 min read

The announcement following an Israeli cabinet meeting “marks a dangerous escalation and risks deepening the already catastrophic consequences for millions of Palestinians, and could further endanger more lives, including of the remaining hostages,” it said. The statement noted that Palestinians in Gaza continue to endure a humanitarian catastrophe of horrific proportions. More displacement, death and destruction The UN chief warned...

Israeli attack puts Gaza City hospital out of service

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·April 14, 2025·2 min read

“Al Ahli Hospital is out of service,” WHO spokesperson Dr Margaret Harris told UN News, after the airstrike early on Sunday morning. “The pharmacy was destroyed, many of the different buildings and services were destroyed.” Some 40 patients whose condition is too critical to be moved from the health facility are continuing...

The ‘chinamperos’ have provided Mexico City with food for generations. Do they have a future?

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·April 12, 2025·4 min read

The chinamperos get their name from ‘chinampas,’ the human-made islands of floating gardens on which they farm. It was the Aztecs who discovered that, by layering mud, plants and branches on shallow lake beds, they could create highly fertile plots of land. For hundreds of years, the chinampas sustained farming...

UN deplores deadly attack on city in central Ukraine

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·April 5, 2025·1 min read

Matthias Schmale said he was outraged by reports of yet another Russian attack on the city, which is located in the Dnipro region. “This attack follows a deeply disturbing pattern of repeated attacks on populated areas across Ukraine that continue to kill and maim civilians,” he said, noting that the...

DR Congo crisis: WFP condemns looting in Bukavu after M23 rebels take key city

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·February 17, 2025·1 min read

In an online message on Monday, the WFP said that it “condemns the pillage of its warehouses in Bukavu in South Kivu…the food supplies kept there were meant to provide vital support to the most vulnerable families who now face a growing humanitarian crisis”. Looters made off with 7,000 tonnes...

Dreams of returning home dashed by reality in Gaza City

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·February 2, 2025·4 min read

Tess Ingram, Communications Manager for UNICEF Middle East and North Africa, is in the northern city where she witnessed people moving through the streets on donkeys, in cars, or by bicycle. “There’s a lot of people with shovels trying to remove rubble, and of course you can see people setting...