ANKARA (AA) – Norway has sent $26 million in aid to the United Nations agency for Palestine refugees (UNRWA), after some countries decided to stop their support in response to Israeli allegations against UNRWA workers of involvement in the October 7 Hamas attacks. Norwegian Foreign Minister Espen Barth Eide said on X, “Today, Norway tran...
GENEVA (AA) – Bitter fighting in Sudan continues fueling one of the world’s biggest displacement crisis and in response the UN has appealed for a combined $4.1 billion to meet the most urgent humanitarian needs of civilians. The UN said the appeal, also on behalf of its partners, seeks to help cover more than 1.5 […]
RAMALLAH, Palestine (AA) – Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has called on the United Nations to double its efforts to halt Israel’s war on Gaza. Abbas met with Middle East peace envoy Tor Wennesland in the West Bank city of Ramallah for talks on the situation in the Palestinian territories. The Palestinian leader conveyed a message [&hellip...
GAZA CITY, Palestine (AA) – Hamas has condemned the termination of contracts for some staffers of the UN Agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA). This decision was based on unfounded Israeli allegations of their involvement in the October 7 attack. “We strongly denounce the agency’s decision to terminate the contracts of several UN...
LONDON (AA) – Ireland supports investigation into alleged involvement of some UN staff in the October 7 attacks, but will not pause aid for Gaza. “Full confidence in @UNLazzarini’s (agency head Philippe Lazzarini) decision to immediately suspend @UNRWA staff suspected of participation in the heinous attacks of October 7, to i...
GENEVA (AA) – The UK has given a lukewarm response to the decision of the International Court of Justice (ICJ) on Palestine, arguing that the genocide case against Israel is “not helpful” in achieving a cease-fire. “We respect the role and independence of the ICJ. However we have stated that we have considerable concern...
GAZA CITY(AA) – Hamas has condemned Israel’s campaign against UN institutions, calling it an effort to prevent them from providing relief to people in Gaza. “The latest is the hollow accusation against the World Health Organization of what Israel called collusion with the Hamas movement, by repeating the false claim about the movem...
ATHENS (AA) – Three major UN agencies involved in relief works in Gaza have called for faster and safer aid access to the besieged enclave via more supply routes. In a joint statement, UNICEF, the World Food Program (WFP) and the World Health Organization (WHO) said: “As the risk of famine grows, and more people […]
GAZA CITY, Palestine (AA) – The UN Palestinian refugee agency dispatched humanitarian aid to Gaza’s north for the first time since last month. “We began to dispatch humanitarian aid into northern governorates a week ago, for the first time since the end of a weeklong humanitarian pause on December 1,” Adnan Abu Hasna, a spokesman […]...
JERUSALEM (AA) – Israel must increase humanitarian assistance to civilians in Gaza as the aid entering the enclave meets only 10% of its needs, according to the Israeli media. The Israeli newspaper Haaretz wrote: “Half of Gaza’s population is in a state of severe or extreme hunger, and 90% of Gaza’s more than two million […]...
