Silence the guns, UN relief chief tells Paris forum — Global Issues

Silence the guns, UN relief chief tells Paris forum — Global Issues

ByNews Polite

Echoing his remarks with French President Emmanuel Macron looking on, the head of the UN agency for Palestine refugees (UNRWA), Philippe Lazzarini, stressed the “heart-breaking” plight of children in the territory, whom he saw last week “pleading for a piece of bread and a sip of water”. Mass displacement has…

Silence the guns, UN relief chief tells Paris forum — Global Issues

$20 million appeal to support Palestine labour market — Global Issues

ByNews Polite

The funding appeal – launched on Thursday in Geneva – will be used to implement a three-phase programme to provide immediate relief and support longer-term job and business recovery, as well as social protection. “The hostilities have resulted in – and continue to cause – both a tragic loss of…

Silence the guns, UN relief chief tells Paris forum — Global Issues

At Rafah crossing, Türk says both Israel and Hamas have committed war crimes — Global Issues

ByNews Polite

Volker Türk highlighted the dichotomy at the border crossing, describing it as a “lifeline” for the 2.3 million residents of Gaza over the past month, although “unjustly, outrageously thin.” But it is also “the gates to a living nightmare”, he continued, as people in Gaza “have been suffocating, under persistent…

Silence the guns, UN relief chief tells Paris forum — Global Issues

UN humanitarians plead for ‘access, access, access’ — Global Issues

ByNews Polite

“Every day, you think it is the worst day and then the next day is worse,” UN health agency spokesperson Christian Lindmeier said, quoting a colleague in Gaza, which remains under almost complete blockade. “Access, access, access is necessary.” 160 children killed daily The level of death and suffering is…

Silence the guns, UN relief chief tells Paris forum — Global Issues

WFP appeals for urgent expanded Gaza access with food supplies ‘dangerously low’ — Global Issues

ByNews Polite

“Right now, parents in Gaza do not know whether they can feed their children today and whether they will even survive to see tomorrow. The suffering just meters away is unfathomable standing on this side of the border,” said Cindy McCain, Executive Director of the UN World Food Programme (WFP)….

Gaza’s north cut off from aid; death toll rising — Global Issues

Gaza’s north cut off from aid; death toll rising — Global Issues

ByNews Polite

According to the Hamas-run Ministry of Health, 8,805 Palestinians have been killed since 7 October, including at least 3,648 children and 2,187 women, and some 22,240 have been injured, UN humanitarian coordination affairs office OCHA said. Strikes on Jabalia Refugee Camp OCHA stressed that as Israeli ground operations and bombardments…

Silence the guns, UN relief chief tells Paris forum — Global Issues

Iran urged to end new rights clampdown following teenage girl’s death — Global Issues

ByNews Polite

They issued a statement expressing shock over the death of Armita Geravand, the teenager who collapsed in the subway in Iran’s capital, Tehran, earlier this month, allegedly following an altercation about failing to wear a headdress or hijab. Ms. Geravand died on Saturday, according to international reports which cited State…

Silence the guns, UN relief chief tells Paris forum — Global Issues

Rise in intimidation, settler violence in the West Bank, warns OCHA — Global Issues

ByNews Polite

Israeli settler violence has increased significantly, from an already high average of three incidents per day in 2023 to seven a day now, according to the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OHCA). During this period, OCHA recorded 171 settler attacks against Palestinians, resulting in 26 different casualty…