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‘Hospitals have become battlegrounds’: Gaza’s health system on brink of collapse

3 months 3 weeks ago Breadcrumb Home ‘Hospitals have become battlegrounds’: Gaza’s health system on brink of collapse 03 January 2025 © UNRWA Debris and waste continue to pose a health threat to people in Gaza. With seven per cent of the population killed or injured since October 2023, the health crisis in Gaza shows no signs of abating…

MIDDLE EAST CRISIS LIVE: Security Council holds emergency meeting on collapse of Gaza health system

3 months 3 weeks ago Breadcrumb Home MIDDLE EAST CRISIS LIVE: Security Council holds emergency meeting on collapse of Gaza health system 03 January 2025 © UNRWA Patients are teated at the Kamal Adwan Hospital in northern Gaza (file photo). The UN Security Council met on Friday morning in New York to debate the collapse of health services in Gaza. The meeting was called by Algeria, the leading voice for the Arab world on the…

Syria: UN teams support cholera vaccination in northeastern camps

3 months 3 weeks ago Breadcrumb Home Syria: UN teams support cholera vaccination in northeastern camps 03 January 2025 © UNICEF UNICEF's cholera vaccination campaign is launched in Syria's Al Hol camp. 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…

Haiti gangs crisis: Top rights expert decries attacks on hospitals

3 months 3 weeks ago Breadcrumb Home Haiti gangs crisis: Top rights expert decries attacks on hospitals 03 January 2025 © WHO/David Lorens Mentor PAHO and its partners are providing medical assistance to 18,000 people in Haiti using mobile clinics. The UN’s top expert on human rights in Haiti on Friday condemned “intentional” attacks on hospitals, clinics and healthcare workers by armed gangs there, warning that medical…

World News in Brief: Deaths on the Mediterranean, rights in Venezuela, new Security Council members take their seats

3 months 3 weeks ago Breadcrumb Home World News in Brief: Deaths on the Mediterranean, rights in Venezuela, new Security Council members take their seats 02 January 2025 UN News/Victoria Fernandez Caracas the capital city of Venezuela. Governments must do more to address the root causes of mass migration, UN Children’s Fund UNICEF’s Special Coordinator for the refugee and migrant response in Europe said on Thursday…

UN chief condemns New Orleans truck attack

3 months 3 weeks ago Breadcrumb Home UN chief condemns New Orleans truck attack 02 January 2025 © Unsplash/Kristina Volgenau Bourbon Street in the French Quarter of New Orleans, the scene of the horrific attack on New Year's revellers. UN Secretary-General António Guterres has condemned Wednesday’s truck attack that killed at least 15 people in the city of New Orleans…

Gaza: ‘Every day without a ceasefire will bring more tragedy’

3 months 3 weeks ago Breadcrumb Home Gaza: ‘Every day without a ceasefire will bring more tragedy’ 02 January 2025 © UNRWA Children in Gaza are living in often unsanitary conditions. The head of UN Palestine refugee agency UNRWA again underlined the need for a ceasefire in Gaza in a statement posted on the social media platform X on Thursday.…

Fresh evacuation orders and airstrikes highlight ongoing insecurity in Gaza

3 months 3 weeks ago Breadcrumb Home Fresh evacuation orders and airstrikes highlight ongoing insecurity in Gaza 02 January 2025 © WFP/Jaber Badwan Winter rains flood shelters in Gaza. (file) Civilians are not safe anywhere in the Gaza Strip, the UN humanitarian affairs office, OCHA, warned on Thursday.  This comes a day after…

Over 115,000 Syrians have returned home since end of Assad dictatorship

3 months 3 weeks ago Breadcrumb Home Over 115,000 Syrians have returned home since end of Assad dictatorship 02 January 2025 © UNICEF/Muhannad Aldhaher Two boys play at a reception centre in Raqqa city in northern Syria. Their families recently returned to the country. More than 115,000 people have reportedly returned to Syria from countries such as Türkiye, Jordan and Lebanon since 8 December – the fall of the Assad regime -…

‘It will take years to help people deal with the invisible consequences of war’: A UN Resident Coordinator blog

3 months 3 weeks ago Breadcrumb Home ‘It will take years to help people deal with the invisible consequences of war’: A UN Resident Coordinator blog 01 January 2025 © OCHA in Ukraine UN Humanitarian Coordinator in Ukraine Matthias Schmale has visited destroyed neighborhoods in the city of Dnipro. Since he began his mandate as UN Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator in Ukraine, Matthias Schmale has seen for himself the…