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Edited News | OHCHR , UNOG
“With over 3,700 people killed in Gaza and 1,000 more presumed under the rubble, as well as 1,300 people killed in Israel, and a further one million Palestinians – half of them children – reportedly displaced, we implore all parties to allow the rapid and unimpeded passage of humanitarian relief for...
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Edited News | OCHA , OHCHR , WHO
UN humanitarians said on Friday that an agreement between the different sides to unlock lifesaving aid deliveries across the border to Gaza was near, just as UN chief António Guterres arrived at the Rafah crossing on the Egyptian side.
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Edited News | OCHA
The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) has launched a multi-sectoral Herat Earthquake Response Plan in response to a series of powerful earthquakes that rocked Herat Province since 7 October, affecting more than 66,000 people.
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Edited News | OHCHR , UNOG
UN Human Rights Office spokesperson Ravina Shamdasani voiced extreme concern about the situation in the Gaza Strip at the regular biweekly press briefing in Geneva.
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Edited News | OCHA , UNITED NATIONS
In the space of just eight days, three destructive 6.3 magnitude earthquakes rocked western Afghanistan’s province of Herat, killing 2,000 people and affecting 1.6 million, UN aid coordination agency OCHA said on Tuesday.
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Press Conferences | IOM , OCHA , OHCHR , UNHCR , WFP , WHO , WMO
With military operations showing no signs of abating in Gaza and with the continued siege on food, fuel and water, UN humanitarians kept up their call on Tuesday for urgent and unimpeded access to enable aid delivery to the civilian population to prevent further suffering.
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Edited News | OHCHR , WFP , WHO
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Edited News | OCHA
Every effort continues to be made by the United Nations and partners to get aid supplies into Gaza following the Israeli order to evacuate the north of the enclave, the UN’s emergency relief chief said on Monday. “History is watching,” Martin Griffiths told UN News in Geneva, after highlighting the...
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Edited News | OCHA
The UN's emergency relief chief Martin Griffiths on Monday expressed deep concern about the deepening humanitarian crisis in Gaza and the fate of Israeli hostages, while also anticipating "good news" regarding aid access into southern Gaza from Egypt.