A child walks across a street during a rainy day in the southern Gaza Strip city of Rafah, on Feb. 2, 2024. A senior official from the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) announced on Thursday that the humanitarian situation of the over 2 million people ...
lacking necessities such as food, water, dignified shelter, sanitation facilities and medical care, according to the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East. (
The temporary truce and humanitarian aid delivered to Gaza are not enough to deal with the humanitarian crisis in the enclave, according to Karim Amer, director of Partnerships with the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) for Palestine Refugees in the Near East....
About 500,000 people, nearly one quarter of Gaza's population, were taking refuge in United Nations schools and other facilities across the territory, where water supplies were dwindling, said Juliette Touma, spokesperson for the U.N.'s Palestinian refugee agency. "Gaza is running dry," she s...
A second concern, the New York Times reported, was that “the Palestinians might use the vote to seek membership in specialized agencies of the United Nations,” which could lead Washington to defund these international organizations, as it cut off financing to UNESCO in 2011 when it dared to...
UNITED NATIONS, May 6 (Xinhua) -- The United Nations on Monday expressed the hope that a cease-fire between Israel and Palestinian resistance factions in Gaza will be able to hold. The latest escalation over the weekend was the worst since the 2014 conflict, said Stephane Dujarric, spokesman...
The United Nations said it would not be able todeliver basic necessitiesto the Gaza Strip through the Rafah border crossing with Egypt on Friday due to communication collapsing in the Palestinian enclave and a lack of fuel. The World Health Organization warned that the paralyzed aid would mean ...
Earlier in the day, Israeli airstrikes hit the Rafah border crossing between Gaza and Egypt, disrupting the delivery of humanitarian aid. Negotiations between the United Nations and Egyptian officials are ongoing to ensure aid can flow through the crossing, with Egypt seeking assurances from Israel...
She echoed the United Nations' grave concern over the prospect of an Israeli operation in Rafah. Such action would compound an ongoing humanitarian catastrophe, with consequences for people already displaced and enduring severe hardships and suffering. The world body's ability to deliver will also ...
GAZA, May 16 (Xinhua) -- The United Nations (UN) on Thursday considered humanitarian aid distribution "almost impossible" in the Gaza Strip amid the ongoing war between Israel and the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas), which has lasted over 200 days. ...