The Israel Defence Forces on Friday (December 15, 2023) said it ‘mistakenly’ killed three hostages during its campaign in Gaza. IDF said they were misidentified as a ‘threat’. “During combat in Shejaiya, the IDF mistakenly identified 3 Israeli hostages as a threat and as a result, fired toward them and the hostages were killed,” the […]
The last barely functioning hospital in northern Gaza is a “humanitarian disaster zone”, the UN World Health Organization (WHO) said on Tuesday (December 12, 2023), highlighting the disastrous consequences of ongoing Israeli bombardment for critically ill and injured civilians across the enclave. Briefing reporters from Gaza, Richard Peeperkorn, WHO’s representative in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, […]
The UN General Assembly met on Tuesday (December 12, 2023) afternoon in Emergency Special Session on the decades-long Israel-Palestine conflict and as the ongoing crisis in Gaza shows no signs of abating. Member States adopted a resolution, demanding an “immediate humanitarian ceasefire”, the immediate and unconditional release of all hostages and well as “ensuring […]
The UN Secretary-General on Sunday pledged that he would “not give up” on appealing for a humanitarian ceasefire in Gaza, adding that inaction on the Security Council was undermining its credibility. “The preeminent forum for the peaceful resolution of international disputes is paralysed by geostrategic divisions”, António Guterres told the Doha Forum taking place in […]
War-ravaged Gaza has been described as the worst place for children in the world currently as UN warned a full-blown collapse. Women and children are bearing the brunt in terms of deaths and injuries as Israeli troops battle Palestinian militants across the enclave, with nowhere safe to go, and aid distribution stymied by war, insufficient […]
The United States on Friday (December 8, 2023) vetoed a UN Security Council resolution demanding an immediate humanitarian ceasefire in Gaza. The UN Security Council held an emergency meeting Friday (December 8, 2023) morning New York time to discuss the catastrophic situation in Gaza. This follows Wednesday’s (December 6, 2023) urgent letter by Secretary-General António […]
Two months to the day since Hamas’ terror attacks in Israel prompted a massive Israeli military retaliation in Gaza, the situation in the war-torn enclave is becoming “apocalyptic” with hostilities making meaningful humanitarian efforts “nearly impossible”, UN humanitarians warned on Thursday (December 7, 2023). In a joint statement 27 aid organisations including UN agencies and […]
A top UN official has said over 600,000 people are under evacuation orders in southern Gaza amid the ongoing clash between Hamas members and Israel military. “There is nowhere to go as shelters, including @UNRWA, are beyond & over their capacity,” he said. The situation for Gazans is “getting worse by the hour”, the UN […]
Reports of hundreds of fatalities from bombing in southern Gaza over the weekend heightened deep concerns for civilians sheltering there, while UN humanitarians on Monday (November 4, 2023) said that aid teams had only “extremely limited” movement and access to the north was “now entirely blocked”. The latest update from the UN aid coordination office, OCHA, […]
The World Health Organization on Tuesday (December 5, 2023) said it has recorded 203 attacks on medical facilities and health workers in the Gaza Strip between October 7 to November 28. In its X post, the health organization said: “About 1.9 million people, nearly 80% of Gaza’s population, are estimated to be internally displaced. Recent […]
