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World News in Brief: Gaza winter storm, $7 billion UNICEF appeal, support for emergency response fund

·December 11, 2025·2 min read

Following two years of war, most of Gaza’s roughly two million residents are living in makeshift shelters. Humanitarians are working to deliver assistance to communities in flood-prone areas, including by scaling up distribution of winter clothes for children from 5,000 kits a day to 8,000. UN partners leading winter preparedness efforts reported that some 200 families have left shoreline communities for a new site identified by...

Ukraine faces freezing winter under fire as UN warns of rising civilian toll

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·December 10, 2025·2 min read

Briefing ambassadors, Kayoko Gotoh, Director of the Europe and Central Asia Division at the Department of Political and Peacebuilding Affairs, said 2025 has been one of the deadliest years for civilians since Russia’s full-scale invasion began nearly four years ago. Civilian casualties between January and November were 24 per cent...

A fragile peace, a harsh winter: Gaza’s families struggle to rebuild

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·December 7, 2025·4 min read

For months on end, thousands of families remain without a roof over their heads, laying beneath the open sky — the stars above offering both solace and a haunting reminder of everything they have lost. Sabah, her husband Ahmad, and their seven children spent weeks sleeping in the open after...

Gaza women are ‘last line of protection’ for their families amid attacks, hunger and harsh winter

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·November 25, 2025·2 min read

UN Women’s Chief of Humanitarian Action Sofia Calltorp, who just returned from a visit to the enclave last week, said that women there repeatedly told her “there may be a cease-fire, but the war is not over”. “The attacks are fewer, but the killings continue,” she said. The UN aid...

Ukraine: UN and partners launch Winter Response Plan amid escalating hostilities

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·July 17, 2025·1 min read

Amidst escalating hostilities and continued strikes on critical infrastructure, Ukraine is once again bracing for another harsh winter. As the cold season brings heightened risks, especially for people near the frontline, displaced persons living in collective sites, and other vulnerable populations, the Winter Response Plan aims to deliver essential...

Gaza crisis: Amid winter storms, humanitarians appeal for full aid access

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·February 10, 2025·2 min read

“The health system is ruined. Malnutrition is rising. The risk of famine persists,” said Dr Hanan Balkhy, the UN World Health Organization (WHO)’s Regional Director for the Eastern Mediterranean. “We are ready to scale up our response – but we urgently need systematic and sustained access to the population across...

Ukraine in grip of third winter of escalating Russian attacks

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·January 8, 2025·1 min read

In a scheduled update mandated by the Council in Geneva, Nada Al-Nashif said that these attacks had led to the deaths of 574 civilians – an increase of 30 per cent over the previous year. She noted that Russian bombardment had also damaged key infrastructure such as water, heating and...

Health needs in Syria worsen amid winter conditions

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·December 28, 2024·1 min read

It also cited rising cases of respiratory illnesses, compounded by inadequate heating, overcrowded camps and damaged infrastructure. “There is continuous significant rise in influenza-like illnesses (ILI) and severe acute respiratory infections (SARI), since the beginning of winter with subsequent rise in hospital visits and heightened public health concerns,” the Health...

Winter rains and aid obstacles worsen ordeal for one million Gazans

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·December 18, 2024·2 min read

In an update, the UN aid coordination office, OCHA, stressed that attacks on civilian infrastructure have not stopped, “particularly in North Gaza, where the UN World Health Organization (WHO) reports appalling conditions at Kamal Adwan Hospital – and where 61 out of 95 attacks on school buildings since 6 October...

UN rights office urges Russia to cease attacks on Ukraine’s energy grid as winter sets in

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·November 30, 2024·2 min read

Spokesperson Jeremy Laurence said massive missile and drone attacks on the power network this week have heightened serious concerns about the plight of civilians facing a winter of hardship and misery. Russia launched missile and long-range drone strikes on Thursday, which reportedly caused damage in at least 13 regions, in...

1,000 days into Ukraine war, winter poses critical challenge to aid effort

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·November 15, 2024·2 min read

Speaking in Geneva, Matthias Schmale described the anguish felt by Ukrainians as the war grinds on: “As we are not only approaching winter but also the sad 1,000-day mark since the Russian Federation’s full-scale invasion in 2022, we are of course thinking of the more than 12,000 people who have...

WMO partnership to highlight damaging impact of climate change on winter sports

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·October 4, 2024·1 min read

The two organizations are joining forces to call attention to the extensive impacts of increasing global temperatures on snow and ice while producing measures to strengthen scientific and sports-related conversations. The partnership is set to begin ahead of the 2024/2025 winter season and will initially last for five years. ‘The tip...