Gaza: News, Stories & Official Statements

UNICEF Geneva Palais briefing note – Gaza: The world’s most dangerous place to be a child (UNICEF)
Tor Wennesland, Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process, Briefing to the Security Council on the Situation in the Middle East (UNSCO)
‘Barely a drop to drink’: children in the Gaza Strip do not access 90 per cent of their normal water use (UNICEF)

WHO delivers health supplies to Al-Shifa Hospital, appeals for continued access to address urgent needs in north Gaza (WHO)

Gaza flooding latest disaster to hit desperate Palestinians (UN News).
‘Desperate, hungry, terrified’: Gazans stopping aid trucks in search of food (UN News).
Remarks by UNRWA Commissioner-General Philip Lazzarini at Geneva press conference (UNRWA)
UN Human Rights Office – OPT: Killings of journalists and their family members in Gaza (OHCHR)
Occupied Palestinian territory and Israel: UN experts call for permanent ceasefire to protect rights and futures of women and girls (UN HRC)

General Assembly Adopts Resolution Demanding Immediate Humanitarian Ceasefire in Gaza, Parties’ Compliance with International Law, Release of All Hostages (UNGA)
War on Gaza: weaponizing access to water, energy and food (ESCWA)
Humanitarian Coordinator Lynn Hastings briefs the press in Geneva (OCHA)
Remarks of UNRWA Commissioner-General Philippe Lazzarini at the Global Refugee Forum (UNRWA)
State of Palestine and Israel must end violence against civilians and return to negotiation, UN ad hoc Conciliation Commission urges (OHCHR)
Neighbouring countries in the Arab States region face socioeconomic downturn from war in Gaza, new rapid assessment shows (UNDP)

World Bank Support for Emergency Relief to Gaza (WB)
Diary from Gaza: ‘If death doesn’t come from airstrikes, it will come from starvation’ (WFP)
Gaza: Trauma rooted in ‘scourge of war’ impacting women and children alike (UN News)
Ensuring a Holistic Response – Gaza (Protection Cluster / UNFPA)
OPT GBV Response Advocacy Document (Protection Cluster / UNFPA)
WHO calls for protection of humanitarian space in Gaza following serious incidents in high-risk mission to transfer patients, deliver health supplies (WHO)

‘I will not give up’ on push for Gaza humanitarian ceasefire: Guterres (UN News)
WHO’s Executive Board adopts resolution on access for life-saving aid into Gaza and respect for laws of war (WHO)
Statement by the United Nations Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, Lynn Hastings, on International Human Rights Day (OCHA)

We must prevent humanitarian aid from being used as an instrument of war (UNRWA)

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