Palestinian Territories – AFP The outgoing United Nations humanitarian chief warned Wednesday that a spread of Israel’s war on Gaza to Lebanon would be “potentially apocalyptic”. Martin Griffiths described Lebanon as “the flashpoint beyond all flashpoints”, especially its southern border with Israel which ha...
United Nations, United States – AFP After nearly a year of war, Sudan is suffering one of the worst humanitarian crises in recent history, the United Nations warned Wednesday, slamming the international community for lack of action. Fighting between army chief Abdel Fattah al-Burhan and his former deputy, Mohamed Hamdan Daglo, has since ...
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 […]
WASHINGTON (AA) – UN relief chief Martin Griffiths has voiced support for the UN agency for Palestinian refugees, or UNRWA, amid the agency’s funding crisis sparked by allegations that some of its employees in the Gaza Strip took part in the October 7 Hamas attack. “UNRWA is playing an indispensable role in terms of distribut...
Palestinian Territories – AFP Israel bombed southern Gaza Saturday as the UN warned the besieged Palestinian territory has been rendered “uninhabitable” by three months of war. Civilians in the Gaza Strip have borne the brunt of Israel’s attacks as the scale of the destruction has triggered mass displacement and a deepe...
Palestinian Territories – AFP The United Nations has warned that Israel’s war on Gaza is pushing the people of the enclave towards famine. The entire population of Gaza faces “an imminent risk of famine”, according to a UN-backed global hunger monitoring system on Thursday, with more than half a million people facing &#...
Palestinian Territories – AFP Hundreds of people had to leave Gaza’s main hospital on Saturday after its director said Israel’s army had ordered evacuation of the facility where more than 2,000 patients, medics and displaced people were trapped by Israeli attacks. Columns of sick and injured — some of them amputees R...
Geneva, Switzerland – – AFP The United Nations and the Red Cross have voiced alarm after Israeli forces raided Gaza’s largest hospital, demanding that patients and civilians be protected. Israeli forces entered Al-Shifa hospital early Wednesday, targeting what they alleged was a “Hamas command centre” in tunnels b...
Geneva, Switzerland – AFP The UN humanitarian chief said Wednesday he and Iran’s top diplomat had discussed fears of what an expansion of Israel’s war against Palestine might entail, and had agreed it “would not be good”. At a Geneva press briefing, United Nations humanitarian chief Martin Griffiths voiced deep co...
WASHINGTON (AA) – “Gaza is on its knees,” UN Under-Secretary-General Martin Griffiths said on Tuesday after a deadly airstrike on a hospital in Gaza. “Just arrived to Cairo amid reports that a school and a hospital have come under attack in Gaza today,” Griffiths posted on X. “Hundreds of people have been ki...
