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 […]...
Bamako, Mali – AFP The UN mission in Mali ended a decade of deployment in the crisis-wracked country on Sunday, meeting a December 31 deadline agreed after Mali’s military leaders ordered it to leave. The UN stabilisation mission (MINUSMA) had been in place since 2013, and its withdrawal is igniting fears that fighting will intensi...
Palestinian Territories – AFP Gaza’s health ministry on Sunday reported numerous deaths in overnight strikes on central Gaza’s Zawayda and the nearby Al-Mughazi refugee camp as Palestinians end a dark year with no end in sight to Israel’s deadliest military offensive. There has been no respite from Israel’s air ra...
ANKARA (AA) – The UN human rights office has warned of a “rapidly deteriorating” human rights situation in the occupied West Bank. In its flash report, the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights called on Israel to “end unlawful killings and settler violence” against the Palestinian population. “...
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 &#...
ANKARA (AA) – A UN agency has urged Israel to launch an investigation into incidents in which its army killed at least 11 unarmed Palestinian men in front of their family members in Gaza City. “The Israeli authorities must immediately institute an independent, thorough and effective investigation into these allegations, and if found to b...
GENEVA (AA) – At least 66% of employment in the Gaza Strip has been wiped out by Israel’s military attacks since October 7, the UN labor agency has said. This is equivalent to a loss of 192,000 jobs, the International Labor Organization (ILO) said, citing a joint bulletin published with the Palestinian Central Bureau of […]
WASHINGTON (AA) – A UN spokesman on Wednesday voiced concern over the surging death toll in the Gaza Strip as Israel’s war on the enclave continued for the 75th day. “The number has been unacceptable and huge and sheer and whatever adjective you want to use for quite some time,” Stephane Dujarric told reporters. “...
United Nations, United States – AFP Israel’s steps to allow aid into Gaza are “far short of what is needed,” senior United Nations official Tor Wennesland said on Tuesday. “The delivery of humanitarian aid in the (Gaza) Strip continues to face nearly insurmountable challenges,” said Wennesland, the organizat...
Rafah, Palestinian Territories — AFP Many people in Gaza already lived in poverty before the war. Now, even those with money have found the conflict to be a terrible equalizer as they hunt in vain for shelter and basic necessities for bare survival. Since fleeing to the south of Gaza, Mohammed al-Mahdun, 36, has been […]
