The evacuation order came as the UN prepares to begin on Saturday a campaign to vaccinate an estimated 640,000 children in Gaza, where the World Health Organization (WHO) said a 10-month-old baby had been paralyzed by the type 2 polio virus, the first such case in the territory in 25 ...
OCHA said the World Health Organization (WHO) and its partners facilitated the medical evacuation of 12 patients and nearly three dozen companions from the Gaza Strip. Most are suffering from cancer and immunological disorders, and they will receive treatment in Albania, France, Norway and Romania....
The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) issued the warning after the announcement by World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus that following an Israeli raid on Kamal Adwan Hospital of North Gaza and the detention on Friday of its director...
For example, the humanitarians reported that on Sunday, OCHA supported a mission led by the World Health Organization, the UN Mine Action Service, the International Committee of the Red Cross and the Palestine Red Crescent Society to Kamal Adwan Hospital to deliver 10,000 litres of fuel and tr...
Israel's aggression in northern Gaza may be leading to the destruction of the population through "death or forced displacement", said the UN Human Rights Office, echoing similar concerns raised by the Organization of Islamic Cooperation and other groups. ...
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres had invoked Article 99 of the UN Charter to urge the organization's most powerful body to call for a ceasefire. Article 99 states, "The secretary general may bring to the attention of the Security Council any matter which in his opinion may threaten the ...
The COVID-19 pandemic is expected to wipe out 6.7 percent of working hours globally in the second quarter of this year, equivalent to the labor of 195 million full-time workers, according to a new report from the International Labour Organization (ILO). More than fo...
Rik Peeperkorn, head of the World Health Organization office for the West Bank and Gaza, said 2,180 workers in 295 teams would administer the oral vaccines to 640,000 children under 10 years of age at 392 sites. The vaccine is to be ...
UNRWA is the largest humanitarian organization in Gaza. Among its 13,000 employees, over 3,000 continuous staff are the backbone of humanitarian operations, according to White.■ Children are seen at a temporary camp in the southern Gaza Strip city of Rafah, on Feb. 2, 2024. A senior offi...
The United States and the United Kingdom have previously struck the Houthis after the group disrupted shipping in the Red Sea, one of the world’s busiest waterways. The US State Department considers the Houthis a global terrorist organization. ...