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UN condemns deadly West Bank airstrike, attacks on Gaza schools
- UN News
The UN chief has strongly condemned the killing of several Palestinians, including women and children, who died when a residential building in Tulkarem camp in the West Bank was hit by Israeli airstrikes on Thursday night.
Lebanon: Medical aid arrives in Beirut amid intensifying Israeli strikes
- UN News
As Lebanon suffered another night of heavy Israeli bombing, UN humanitarians and partners described how people desperate to flee the violence found the country’s main border crossing into Syria cut by a new dawn strike, forcing them to skirt “a huge crater” and rubble on foot, to reach the other side.
Report highlights links between child trafficking and grave violations during conflict
- UN News
Armed conflict puts children at an increased risk of grave violations while their risk of being trafficked similarly increases, including in transitional periods, a new UN study has revealed.
World News in Brief: Deadly strikes in Ukraine, justice must be served over custody deaths, FIFA urged to challenge law-breaking by Israeli clubs
- UN News
Russian shelling has hit another apartment block in Ukraine’s second city of Kharkiv, UN aid teams said on Thursday.
Lebanon: UN peacekeepers to stay the course amid escalating hostilities
- UN News
Peacekeepers positioned along the “Blue Line” of separation between Israel and Lebanon remain committed to their mandate, and will remain in place until conditions allow, the UN’s peacekeeping chief said on Thursday.
Somalia: UN official reports on electoral progress, ongoing security challenges
- UN News
Authorities in Somalia remain focused on national priorities, and the battle against Al-Shabaab terrorists is their chief security concern, senior officials from the UN and the African Union (AU) said on Thursday.
Sudan war: ‘Horror’ grows as reports of summary executions emerge
- UN News
The UN-designated human rights expert on Sudan has called for the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF), along with their allied militias, to take immediate steps to protect civilians in greater Khartoum amid escalating violence and alarming reports of summary executions.
Victims of deadly Lebanon escalation describe fleeing ‘total destruction’
- UN News
People in Lebanon uprooted by Israeli airstrikes including in central Beirut have described being forced to flee “total destruction”, amid fresh reports of Hezbollah projectile attacks into Israel and close-quarter clashes along the UN-patrolled line of separation between the two countries.
Security Council briefed on progress in UN-AU partnership for peace
- UN News
Despite the significant peace and security challenges facing Africa, there are reasons to be hopeful, the head of the UN Office to the African Union (UNOAU) told ambassadors at the Security Council on Wednesday, urging their continued focus on the continent.
World News in Brief: Half of Haiti’s displaced are children, alarm over low immunisation rates, aid to East Africa
- UN News
A breakdown in law and order and a wider humanitarian emergency across Haiti have displaced more than 700,000 people – one in two of them children – the UN migration office, IOM, said on Wednesday.
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