Global IssuesNews headlines for “Middle East”, page 6
Gaza: Humanitarians assist families impacted by recent airstrike in Deir Al-Balah
- UN News
UN teams in Gaza have carried out a rapid needs assessment in two makeshift sites in Deir Al-Balah following a recent airstrike, Spokesperson Stéphane Dujarric said on Tuesday.
Lebanon: Appeal for $371.4 million to boost life-saving support
- UN News
The UN and the Government of Lebanon unveiled a $371.4 million extension of the Lebanon Flash Appeal on Tuesday aiming to provide life-saving assistance to civilians affected by the recent conflict and ongoing humanitarian crisis.
Will Trump Seize the Opportunity for an Israeli-Palestinian Breakthrough?
- Inter Press Service
NEW YORK, Jan 06 (IPS) - Trump, who wants an end to the Israeli-Hamas war even before he reassumes the Presidency, must know that denying the Palestinian right to statehood and conceding further Palestinian land to Israel is a recipe for the next horrific inferno that will overshadow even the present calamitous Israel-Hamas war.
First Person: Gaza, where starving people are trapped in a land reduced to rubble
- UN News
“We saw dead bodies scattered to the left and right, decomposing in the sun”, recounts Jonathan Dumont, Head of Emergency Communications at the World Food Programme (WFP). A veteran of conflict zones around the world, he says that the destruction and suffering he witnessed in Gaza is on a “different scale”.
Gaza war: UN World Food Programme condemns Israeli attack on aid convoy
- UN News
Israeli airstrikes continued across Gaza overnight into Monday, while the UN World Food Programme (WFP) reported that one of its aid convoys in the war-shattered enclave was targeted by Israeli fire on Sunday.
‘Hospitals have become battlegrounds’: Gaza’s health system on brink of collapse
- UN News
With seven per cent of the population killed or injured since October 2023, the health crisis in Gaza shows no signs of abating.
UN continues to call for timely Israeli withdrawal from southern Lebanon
- UN News
Operations by the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) north of the UN-monitored Blue Line in southern Lebanon have continued, according to the UN peacekeeping mission in the country, UNIFIL.
MIDDLE EAST CRISIS LIVE: Security Council holds emergency meeting on collapse of Gaza health system
- UN News
The UN Security Council is meeting in emergency session at 10am in New York on the collapse of health services in Gaza. The meeting was called by Algeria, the leading voice for the Arab world on the Council which has just taken the gavel as president for the month of January. A senior official from the World Health Organization (WHO) briefed ambassadors alongside High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Turk. App users can follow here.
Syria crisis: UN teams support cholera vaccination in northeastern camps
- UN News
In northeast Syria, UN teams pressed ahead with a lifesaving cholera vaccine campaign in Al Hol detention camp complex on Friday, despite rumours of attacks by ISIL extremists and uncertainty across the war-torn country, following the overthrow of the Assad regime.
‘Digital platforms amplify the Israeli narrative while systematically silencing Palestinian voices’
- Inter Press Service
Jan 02 (IPS) - CIVICUS discusses the challenges Palestinian civil society faces in resisting digital suppression and advocating for justice with Palestinian lawyer and researcher Dima Samaro.
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