Gaza: News, Stories & Official Statements

What you need to know about the United Nations response to the conflict in the Middle East.

8 December

  • US vetoes resolution on Gaza which called for ‘immediate humanitarian ceasefire’ (UN News)
  • Security Council Fails to Adopt Resolution Demanding Immediate Humanitarian Ceasefire in Gaza on Account of Veto by United States. (UN)
  • Secretary-General’s remarks to the Security Council – on the situation in the Middle East, including the Palestinian Question (SG)
  • SG Spokesperson noon briefing highlights (SG)
  • UN Special Representative Pramila Patten expresses grave concern about reports of sexual violence against hostages in Hamas captivity (SRSG-SVC)
  • Statement by WFP Deputy Executive Director after visit to Gaza (WFP)
  • The Gaza Strip: In the darkest hour as humanitarian situation untenable (UNRWA)
  • Opinion: We must prevent humanitarian aid from being used as an instrument of war (LA Times)

7 December

  • SG Spokesperson noon briefing highlights
  • Mr. Martin Griffiths, Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator – Transcript of Press Briefing on the Humanitarian Situation in Gaza (OCHA)
  • UN relief chief: ‘No place safe’ for civilians in southern Gaza (OCHA)
  • Letter from UNRWA Commissioner-General Philippe Lazzarini to the UN General Assembly President Mr. Dennis Francis (UNRWA)
  • Relief Efforts in Gaza Near Collapse, Ceasefire Urgently Needed (IOM Chief)

6 December

  • Gaza: Guterres invokes ‘most powerful tool’ Article 99, in bid for humanitarian ceasefire (UN News)
  • Letter by the Secretary-General to the President of Security Council invoking Article 99 of the United Nations Charter (SG)
  • Gaza – Food Security Assessment – December 2023 (WFP)
  • Opening statement by UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk at press conference ahead of Human Rights Day (OHCHR)

5 December

  • Statement by the World Food Programme on growing humanitarian catastrophe in Gaza (WFP)

4 December

  • Gaza: ‘In this war, everything is different’ (UNDP)

3 December

  • Gaza: Unbearable suffering of civilians demands end to violence – Türk (OHCHR)
  • Child deaths in the Gaza strip due to disease and malnutrition can and must be prevented (UNICEF)

1 December

  • The war on children resumes – Geneva Palais briefing note (UNICEF)
  • Shock and terror in Gaza as bombardment of shattered enclave resumes (UN News)
  • Comment by UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk on resumption of hostilities in Gaza (OHCHR)
  • UN Human Rights Office – OPT: Dramatic rise in detention of Palestinians across occupied West Bank (OHCHR)
  • UN Women statement on the situation in Israel and Gaza (UN Women)
  • Statement by UNICEF Executive Director Catherine Russell on the resumption of fighting in Gaza (UNICEF)
  • Statement by Martin Griffiths, Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator, on Gaza (OCHA)
  • Spreading unsubstantiated claims about UNRWA must immediately stop (UNRWA)
  • United Nations World Food Programme Goodwill Ambassador Abel “The Weeknd” Tesfaye to provide four million meals to support emergency humanitarian efforts in Gaza (WFP)

The UN Charter remains humanity’s best hope for peace.

Amid geopolitical divisions, member countries must uphold it & ensure that the UN lives up to what it was meant to be:

A forum for solutions.

A guardian of international law.

And a force for peace and security.

António Guterres

Secretary-General of the United Nations (27 May 2026)

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