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Two years of Gaza-Israel war bring ‘indescribable’ pain, warn aid agencies

·October 7, 2025·3 min read

“The pain is indescribable” on the anniversary of the “abhorrent” attacks, said UN relief chief Tom Fletcher. “I renew my call for the unconditional, immediate release of all the hostages – and until then, they must be treated humanely,” he continued. “Civilians everywhere have to be protected.” Mr. Fletcher underscored the...

The world is failing Gaza’s starving children, aid teams warn

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·October 1, 2025·4 min read

A total of 151 children have perished through acute malnutrition in the Gaza Strip since the start of the war – and the majority in 2025 – according to the latest figures from the Palestinian health authorities. Announcing Jana’s death in an online video message, UNICEF Communication Manager Tess Ingram...

Gaza: UN agencies warn of escalating attacks, mass displacement and famine

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·September 25, 2025·1 min read

The UN human rights office in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (OHCHR) says Israeli military tactics in Gaza City – including strikes on homes and schools – are “inflicting terror” and forcing people to flee. In parallel, UN humanitarian affairs office, OCHA, reports more than 20,000 people were forced to moved southwards in a single...

‘A war of atrocities’ – UN human rights investigators warn Sudanese civilians are paying the highest price

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·September 6, 2025·2 min read

“They burned everything,” said one witness of a shelling attack in the Zamzam displacement camp in war-torn Darfur. “They claimed they only wanted to fight soldiers, but they punished the whole community.” The war crimes and human rights violations perpetrated by all parties to the conflict between the military government...

The descent into ‘a massive famine’ in Gaza has begun, relief agencies warn

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·August 29, 2025·1 min read

Although the private aid platform run by the US and Israeli-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation continues to receive its own supplies, “we are on a descent into a massive famine”, insisted Jens Laerke, spokesperson for the UN aid coordination office, OCHA, on Friday. Referring to the latest catastrophic assessment of food...

UN agencies warn of rising heat stress risks for workers worldwide

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·August 23, 2025·2 min read

The new joint report, Climate change and workplace heat stress, underscores the mounting risks as climate change fuels longer, more extreme, and more frequent heatwaves. Stressing that workers in agriculture, construction, and fisheries are already suffering the impacts of dangerous temperatures, the report points out that vulnerable groups in developing countries...

Sudan: You can run – but we will find you, militias warn terrified civilians

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·August 9, 2025·4 min read

“People told me multiple times that when they were fleeing from Zamzam [displacement camp], armed people would threaten them while they were in flight, saying sure, ‘Flee, go to that place, run here, run there, we will follow you, we will find you’,” said Jocelyn Elizabeth Knight, a Protection Officer...

Gaza Strip: Humanitarians warn of worsening famine conditions, attacks on civilians

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·July 31, 2025·2 min read

Of the 154 malnutrition-related deaths since October 2023 (including 89 children) reported by Gazan health authorities, the World Health Organization (WHO) said 63 occurred in July alone. These deaths follow a steep drop in food consumption: 81 per cent of households reported poor food consumption in July (up from 33...

Gaza war: UN officials warn of unspeakable conditions as children bear the brunt

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·July 17, 2025·3 min read

Tom Fletcher, the UN Emergency Relief Coordinator, said there was no “vocabulary” left to adequately describe conditions on the ground. “Food is running out. Those seeking it risk being shot. People are dying trying to feed their families. Field hospitals receive dead bodies, and medical workers hear stories firsthand from...

No fuel, no aid, no escape: UN agencies warn of looming collapse in Gaza

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·July 12, 2025·2 min read

“Fuel is the backbone of survival in Gaza,” said the statement. “Without fuel, these lifelines will vanish for 2.1 million people.” UN humanitarian workers stressed that fuel powers everything from hospitals and water systems to bakeries and ambulances. Without a steady supply, “maternity, neonatal and intensive care units are failing,...

Gaza: Families deprived of the means for survival, humanitarians warn

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·July 1, 2025·1 min read

“As humanitarian assistance and basic services dwindle, people in Gaza have been increasingly deprived of the means for their survival,” UN Spokesperson Stéphane Dujarric told reporters at the UN Headquarters in New York. It has been 17 weeks since any fuel has entered Gaza, according to Mr. Dujarric – a...

Gaza: As last fuel supplies run out, aid teams warn of catastrophe

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·June 19, 2025·2 min read

Speaking from Gaza City in the north of occupied territory, Olga Cherevko from the UN aid coordination office, OCHA, said that water pumps had stopped at one site for displaced people there on Wednesday “because there’s no fuel”. “We are really – unless the situation changes – hours away from...