Gaza: ‘People losing hope’ as aid access is refused to ... - UN News
2 days ago · Dead bodies are lying in the streets of besieged northern Gaza while hospitals run out of blood packs – a situation that’s “nothing short of catastrophic”, the UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) said on Tuesday. Briefing reporters in Geneva from central Gaza, UNRWA senior emergency officer Louise Wateridge warned that amid ...
Why is only limited aid getting to Palestinians inside Gaza?
1 day ago · The AP’s Joe Federman explains. FILE - Trucks carrying humanitarian aid cross into the Gaza Strip from Erez crossing in southern Israel, on Oct. 21, 2024. (AP Photo/Tsafrir Abayov, File) FILE - Palestinians are storming trucks loaded with humanitarian aid brought in through a new U.S.-built pier, in the central Gaza Strip, on May 18, 2024.
Israel misses US deadline to boost humanitarian help for Gaza, aid ...
2 days ago · Updated 12:47 AM PST, November 12, 2024. JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel has failed to meet U.S. demands to allow greater humanitarian access to the Gaza Strip, where conditions are worse than at any point in the 13-month-old war, international aid organizations said Tuesday. The Biden administration last month called on Israel to “surge” more ...
UN agency for Palestinian refugees urges world ... - Associated Press News
Nov 6, 2024 · Updated 3:14 PM PST, November 6, 2024. UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The head of the U.N. agency for Palestinian refugees urged the world Wednesday to save it from an Israeli ban that would have “disastrous consequences” for millions of people caught up in the war in Gaza. Philippe Lazzarini, who heads the agency known as UNRWA, told the 193 ...
How has the war in Gaza affected UNRWA’s ability to support ... - UN News
Nov 6, 2024 · UNRWA staff continue to work in Gaza where possible. 6 November 2024 Humanitarian Aid. As well as bringing emergency aid to those living in Occupied Palestinian Territory, UNRWA, the agency for Palestine refugees, also provides a range of crucial services. In Gaza, the year-long war has severely threatened their ability to deliver.
Israeli strikes kill 37 as attacks intensify in central and southern Gaza
3 days ago · Palestinians gather to receive bags of flour distributed by UNRWA, the UN agency helping Palestinian refugees, in Deir al-Balah, central Gaza Strip, on Nov. 2. (Abdel Kareem Hana/The Associated Press)
Children killed, men detained, families fleeing: Scenes of ... - NBC News
Oct 23, 2024 · The Palestinian health ministry in Gaza has accused Israel of "ethnic cleansing" over its expansive operations in northern Gaza, where it says more than 600 people have been killed in just...
What is UNRWA and why did Israel’s Knesset ban the agency …
Oct 28, 2024 · In the Gaza Strip, which has been ravaged by a devastating Israeli war for more than a year, UNRWA serves some 1.7 million Palestinian refugees. In the West Bank and East Jerusalem, it assists...
Gaza: Palestinians are dying amid lethal evacuation delays - UN News
Oct 25, 2024 · Children and disabled people are facing ever more horrific conditions in war-torn Gaza, with some dying as they wait for medical evacuations, as the year-long war grinds on, UN officials and...
Palestinians say north Gaza destruction is widespread as rights …
6 hours ago · Palestinians displaced from northern Gaza said Israeli forces had inflicted widespread destruction on their home districts in their latest six-week-old offensive and a rights group raised concerns ...