News headlines for “Aid”, page 23
Continuing restrictions hamper humanitarian access inside Gaza
- UN News
The UN humanitarian affairs coordination office (OCHA) on Tuesday warned that lifesaving aid for hundreds of thousands in need across Gaza remains limited due to access constraints.
World News in Brief: Aid breakthrough for Haiti, police violence in Chicago, celebrating ‘pedal power’
- UN News
UN humanitarians said on Monday that they have finally been able to deliver truckloads of food to highly vulnerable people in Haiti’s capital, Port-au-Prince, after gang violence prevented access for more than two months.
Ongoing war destroying social fabric in Gaza, UN aid official says
- UN News
The narrowing space left for civilians in the Gaza Strip is becoming increasingly limited and crowded, while dire living conditions are eroding the social fabric there, a senior official with the UN humanitarian affairs office, OCHA, said on Monday.
Gaza: conditions ‘unspeakable’ as one million people flee Rafah: UNRWA
- UN News
A staggering one million people have now fled Rafah in southern Gaza, the UN aid agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) said on Monday, amid fresh reports of overnight attacks in southern, central and northern locations by Israeli forces.
Situation in southern Gaza ‘horrific and apocalpytic’: WFP
- UN News
Aid corridors in southern Gaza must be fully opened to allow the entry of food, fuel and other desperately needed relief items, a senior official with the World Food Programme (WFP) said on Friday.
UN humanitarian flight takes vital medical supplies to Haiti
- UN News
On Thursday, a humanitarian flight operated by the UN Humanitarian Air Service (UNHAS) flew from Panama to Haiti – specifically the Port-au-Prince airport – for the first time in three months, according to Stéphane Dujarric, Spokesperson for the Secretary-General.
Ukraine: Top UN relief official deplores latest deadly strikes in Kharkiv
- UN News
The UN Humanitarian Coordinator for Ukraine has strongly condemned the latest deadly Russian missile strikes in Kharkiv.
Gaza: Children are starving amid persistent aid access obstacles, warn UN agencies
- UN News
Far too little aid is reaching people in Gaza to the extent that children are now starvingUN humanitarians said on Friday, in a renewed appeal to Israel to respect international law regarding the safe passage of lifesaving relief in the war-shattered enclave.
Sudan: as millions face famine, humanitarians plead for aid access
- UN News
Famine in Sudan is “imminent” if aid agencies continue to be prevented from providing relief, UN humanitarians warned on Friday.
World News in Brief: Hunger grows in Haiti, Gaza aid blocked, World Potato Day
- UN News
As people in Haiti continue to deal with growing hunger, UN agencies are striving to deliver goods and services to populations in need.