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UN urges opening of all Gaza crossings to deliver three-month food supply

·October 17, 2025·3 min read

The agency says it already has enough supplies in place to feed the entire population of the Strip for three months – if full access is granted by Israel. One week into the fragile ceasefire, WFP has been bringing in an average of 560 tonnes of food each day. “The...

Gaza peace plan ‘at precarious moment’ as killings continue on both sides

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·October 16, 2025·1 min read

In a statement on Wednesday, Emergency Relief Coordinator Tom Fletcher said that two days after world leaders gathered in Sharm el-Sheikh to endorse the US-led peace initiative, “this is a moment of great but precarious hope.” “It is also clear from the public response to the progress, that Palestinians, Israelis...

Gaza: $70 billion needed to rebuild shattered enclave, says UN

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·October 14, 2025·4 min read

At just 41 kilometres long (25.4 miles) and two to five kilometres wide (1.2 to 3.1 miles), few places in the Gaza Strip had been left unscathed by the constant Israeli bombardment before the latest ceasefire came into effect haltingly last Friday. According to the UN Development Programme Special Representative...

Gaza: Hostages reported released, aid scale-up has begun, say aid agencies

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·October 13, 2025·3 min read

António Guterres expressed his “profound relief” that the hostages had been freed, two years since they were among some 250 taken during Hamas-led terror attacks in Israel on 7 October 2023, before highlighting their “immense suffering”. The UN Secretary-General’s comments came as he headed to Egypt’s Sharm el-Sheikh along with...

Gaza: Aid teams repeat calls for unhindered access to stricken enclave

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·October 11, 2025·2 min read

“There is little information available on the details or how the agreement will be implemented. However, we call for all crossings into Gaza to be open immediately so that humanitarian supplies can flow into the war-torn enclave,” said Juliette Touma, Director of Communications for the UN agency for Palestinians, UNRWA....

Jubilation in Gaza as news of possible ceasefire deal sinks in

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·October 9, 2025·3 min read

“There is a very positive, jubilant mood in Gaza this morning and there was overnight,” said Olga Cherevko from the UN aid coordination office, OCHA. “There were people whistling and partying and celebrating.” Speaking to UN News from the devastated enclave, Ms. Cherevko stressed that immediate humanitarian priorities remain unchanged:...

Father of Gaza hostage calls for an end to war – and a two-State solution

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·October 8, 2025·2 min read

On 7 October 2023, Corporal Nimrod Cohen was guarding the area near the Nirim kibbutz close to Gaza frontier, when his tank malfunctioned and his unit was overrun by armed militants. Nimrod was the only one taken alive, and his father has received credible reports – including from some of...

We are not powerless in face of Gaza, West Bank, Ukraine atrocities, insists UNHCR chief

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·October 6, 2025·2 min read

“The atrocities perpetrated in Gaza and the [occupied] West Bank, in Ukraine, Sudan or Myanmar are evidence of the deliberate abandonment of norms in the name of violent power, conducted with complete impunity by States and non-State entities alike,” said Filippo Grandi. “People killed while waiting in line to receive...

Gaza health system overwhelmed as WHO reports 42,000 people have life-changing injuries

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·October 6, 2025·2 min read

“These life changing injuries account for one quarter of all reported injuries, of a total of over 167,300 people injured since October 2023,” said Rik Peeperkorn, WHO Representative in the West Bank and Gaza. Over 5,000 people have faced amputation and other severe injuries to arms, legs and the spinal...

Drone victims, terror and death: 30 minutes inside a Gaza hospital

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·October 3, 2025·2 min read

Speaking from the war-shattered enclave amid the ongoing Israeli military push to take full control of Gaza City, UNICEF spokesperson James Elder described one short visit to a hospital where youngsters were either suffering or dying everywhere he looked. As we’re talking to the surgeon there, she dies on the...

Breathless in Gaza: Health crisis deepens as families burn plastic for fuel

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·October 1, 2025·3 min read

Um Muhammad al-Masri, displaced from the northern town of Beit Hanoun, never lets go of her asthma inhaler. She says she would die without it. Smoke fills her tent, where she runs a primitive furnace fuelled by trash. “I was prescribed medicine, but I couldn’t afford it, so UNRWA [the...

Gaza: Guterres calls for ‘all parties’ to commit to US peace plan, as UN agencies stress urgent ceasefire need

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·September 30, 2025·2 min read

Hamas has yet to respond to Washington’s 20-point peace plan, which has the backing of Israel and the wider international community. Hamas leadership had not been consulted on it prior to the announcement but was briefed on the details by Qatari and Egyptian mediators later on Monday, according to news...