Gaza: News, Stories & Official Statements

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

30 November

  • Call for Submissions on international crimes since 7 October 2023 (UN HRC)
  • Germany Contributes Additional Euro 25 Million in Gaza Food Assistance (UNRWA)

29 November

  • Secretary-General’s remarks to the Security Council – on the Middle East (SG)
  • Humanitarian assistance reaches UNRWA shelters in northern Gaza for the first time since the war began (UNRWA)
  • Tor Wennesland, Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process, Briefing to the Security Council on the Situation in the Middle East (UNSCO)

28 November

  • World ‘Must Be United in Demanding an End to the Occupation, Blockade of Gaza’, Says Secretary-General, Marking Day of Solidarity with Palestinian People (SG Message)
  • “We’re going south only today because we were waiting for pause” (OCHA)
  • Pause in fighting allows delivery of life-saving food assistance in Gaza, but more access is needed, says WFP
  • Gaza doctors ‘terrified’ of deadly disease outbreak as aid teams race to deliver (UN News)
  • Statement by UN Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process, Tor Wennesland, on the period of paused fighting in Gaza and Israel (UNSCO)

27 November

  • Gaza: Aid reaches shattered north as UN chief hails ‘glimpse of hope’ in ceasefire extension (UN News)
  • Statement attributable to the Spokesperson for the Secretary-General – on the situation in the Middle East (SG)
  • UN experts call for full and independent investigations into all crimes committed in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territory (OHCHR)

25 November

  • Invest to prevent violence against Palestinian refugee women and girls (UNRWA)
  • More aid delivered into Gaza on second day of humanitarian pause (OCHA)
  • UN confirms more aid entering Gaza as humanitarian pause holds (UN News)

24 November

  • Press conference of UNRWA Commissioner General Philippe Lazzarini (UNRWA)
  • Statement by Special Coordinator Wennesland on the implementation of 22 November agreement (UNSCO)

23 November

  • Following his second Gaza visit, UNRWA Commissioner General renews urgent calls for a long-standing humanitarian ceasefire (UNRWA)
  • Agreement between Israel and Hamas: a sight of hope for the children affected by the conflict (OSRSG Children and Armed Conflict)
  • “Every step of the way there is something destroyed” (OCHA oPt)

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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