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Gaza: UN agencies reject Israeli plan to use aid as ‘bait’

·May 10, 2025·3 min read

UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) spokesperson James Elder insisted that the Israeli proposal to create a handful of aid hubs exclusively in the south of the Strip would create an “impossible choice between displacement and death”. The plan “contravenes basic humanitarian principles” and appears designed to “reinforce control over life-sustaining items...

Israeli strike on hospital ‘further cripples’ Gaza’s fragile health system

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·April 21, 2025·1 min read

Several staff members, including two nurses, were injured in the strike on the Kuwaiti Field Hospital in Khan Younis according to Gaza’s Ministry of Health and health agencies, UN Spokesperson Stéphane Dujarric told journalists at the regular news briefing in New York. The incident follows a separate strike on Sunday...

Israeli strikes in Lebanon continue to kill civilians, UN rights office warns

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·April 16, 2025·1 min read

At least 71 civilians have been killed by Israeli forces in Lebanon since the 27 November 2024 ceasefire, according to an initial review by the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR). Among the dead are 14 women and nine children. More than 92,000 people remain...

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...

Gaza: UN rights office condemns Israeli buffer zone plan

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·April 11, 2025·3 min read

Hostilities in the Gaza Strip resumed mid-March following the collapse of the ceasefire and Israel’s border closure. As it enters its sixth week, the denial of aid into the enclave has left more than 2.1 million Gazans trapped without access to food, drinking water, and basic services. Israel in recent...

Syria’s political transition at risk due to Israeli military action, Security Council hears

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·April 11, 2025·4 min read

“Syria’s opportunity to stabilise after 14 years of conflict must be supported and protected, for Syrians and for Israelis,” said Khaled Khiari, Assistant Secretary-General for Political and Peacebuilding Affairs. “This is the only way regional peace and security can be realized.” Transition under threat Mr. Khiari and the head of...

World News in Brief: Israeli military escalation in Syria, Nicaragua rights probe, South Sudan talks

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·April 4, 2025·2 min read

“Such actions undermine efforts to build a new Syria at peace with itself and the region, and destabilize Syria at a sensitive time,” Geir Pedersen said on Thursday in a statement. He called on Israel to cease these attacks which could amount to serious violations of international law, to respect...

Exhausted Gazans wake from another night of Israeli bombing: UN aid teams

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·March 22, 2025·3 min read

“We’re waking up from another intense night of bombardments, the fourth night of bombardment since the ceasefire abruptly broke down on Monday night…the situation is gravely, gravely concerning,” said Sam Rose, Acting Director of Affairs in Gaza for UNRWA, the UN agency for Palestine refugees. Speaking from close to the...

Rights probe alleges sexual violence against Palestinians by Israeli forces used as ‘method of war’

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·March 14, 2025·3 min read

“Israel has increasingly employed sexual, reproductive and other forms of gender-based violence against Palestinians as part of a broader effort to undermine their right to self-determination,” maintained Chris Sidoti from the Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT). ‘Increasingly used’ Speaking in Geneva, the human rights lawyer said that...

Occupied Palestinian Territory: Israeli operations continue to have dire consequences

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·March 9, 2025·1 min read

The UN relief agency for Palestine refugees (UNRWA) reports that Israeli authorities have started demolishing more than 16 buildings in Nur Shams refugee camp, after destroying more than two dozen homes over the past week in the occupied West Bank. Those displaced are staying at public shelters in Jenin and...

Gaza: Israeli aid cut threatens care for most vulnerable, warns UNICEF

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·March 5, 2025·2 min read

The agency said that despite the huge influx of humanitarian goods into Gaza during phase one of the ceasefire which began on 19 January, it has not been enough to make up for the 15 months of war when supply convoys were frequently blocked, impeded or cancelled by the Israeli...

UN rights office condemns continuing Israeli military operation in West Bank

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·February 15, 2025·3 min read

Since the start of the offensive on 21 January, Israeli forces have killed at least 44 Palestinians, including five children and two women, in Jenin, Tulkarem and Tubas governorates, and four refugee camps in those areas, according to OHCHR. Many of those killed were unarmed and posed no imminent threat,...