A report prepared with the support of the United Nations on Saturday warned that the specter of famine hangs over areas of the northern Gaza Strip amid escalating shelling, fighting and almost a halt in food aid, at a...
A panel of global food security experts warned on Friday of a "strong possibility of imminent famine in areas" in the northern Gaza Strip, as Israel continues its military offensive against the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas.
The Famine Review Commission,...
The United Nations Office for Humanitarian Affairs said Israel does not allow aid from food and water to enter northern Gaza that the UN is trying to send there.
U.N. Assistant Spokeswoman Stephanie Trimblay told reporters on Thursday that the...
The Humanitarian Coordinator in the oPt, Muhannad Hadi, described the humanitarian situation in northern Gaza as beyond imagination, calling for an end to the war that has caused great suffering to the civilian population.
During his first visit to the...
Nestor Omohangi, UNFPA's representative in Palestine, warned that more than 17,000 pregnant women are on the brink of famine, while 11,000 are already living in famine-like conditions.
Néstor Omohangi said malnutrition and anxiety hinder breastfeeding for three-quarters of new mothers,...
Famine looms in the southern Gaza Strip, where the largest number of displaced people are on the horizon. Khan Younis residents spend long hours queuing in front of the only bakery to get a single bundle of bread.
At a...
The World Food Programme (WFP) Regional Director for the Middle East, North Africa and Eastern Europe, Corinne Fleischer, has warned of the increasing challenges facing humanitarian operations in the Gaza Strip as winter approaches and violence against humanitarian workers...
The United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Tuesday stressed the need and importance of an immediate ceasefire in the Gaza Strip.
"I have never experienced the level of death and destruction that we have been witnessing in Gaza over the...
On the humanitarian front, the spokesman for the Secretary-General of the United Nations, Stephane Dujarric, said at a press conference on Tuesday that Israel has rejected requests to provide hospitals operating in northern Gaza with fuel five times over...
A group of independent human rights experts mandated by the United Nations said Tuesday that the recent increase in the number of deaths among children due to malnutrition in the Gaza Strip indicates widespread famine across the territory.
Health authorities...
