Gaza: News, Stories & Official Statements

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

27 March

  • Statement by the Executive Director on Impending Famine in Gaza (UNFPA)

26 March

  • Rights expert finds ‘reasonable grounds’ genocide is being committed in Gaza (UN News)
  • Gaza’s Children: Trapped in a Cycle of Suffering (UNICEF)
  • Security Council Briefing by SC Wennesland (UNSCO)
  • EUR 45 million in new contributions from Germany for services to Palestine Refugees in Jordan, Lebanon, Syria and the West Bank (UNRWA)

25 March

  • Gaza: Security Council passes resolution demanding ‘an immediate ceasefire’ during Ramadan (UN News)
  • Israel’s new aid ban on UNRWA in Gaza ‘a wrong move’: UN coordinator (UN News)
  • UN Security Council demands ‘immediate ceasefire’ in Gaza, ending months-long deadlock (UN News)
  • Secretary-General’s press encounter at Wihdat Palestine Refugee Camp (UN Spokesperson)
  • Secretary-General’s remarks at press encounter with Foreign Minister Ayman Safady of Jordan (OSSG)

24 March

  • Israel tells UN it will reject UNRWA food convoys into northern Gaza (UN News)
  • Secretary-General’s remarks at press encounter with Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry of Egypt (OSSG)

23 March

  • At Rafah border crossing to Gaza, UN’s Guterres calls for immediate ceasefire (UN News)
  • Secretary-General’s press encounter at Rafah border crossing (UN Spokesperson)
  • Secretary-General’s press encounter in Al Arish, Egypt (UN Spokesperson)

22 March

  • OHCHR OPT deplores Israeli Security Forces extra-judicial executions and unlawful killings in the occupied West Bank (OHCHR)
  • Russia and China veto US resolution stating imperative of ‘immediate and sustained ceasefire’ in Gaza (UN News)
  • Gaza: UN aid team reaches stricken north, confirms ‘shocking’ disease and hunger (UN News)
  • UN Human Rights Office – OPT: Attacks on the humanitarian aid distribution system (OHCHR)

21 March

  • ‘No food, no water, no tents’ – Women in Gaza fight for survival as famine looms (UN Women)
  • Gaza: Halt the war now to save children from dying of imminent famine, UN Committee warns (OHCHR)
  • Regional Director statement on visit to Al-Arish and Rafah, Egypt (WHO)
  • Amid ongoing strife in Gaza and Ukraine, UN chief reiterates peace call (UN News)

20 March

  • Gaza: Less than 1 in 2 UN aid missions allowed into northern zones this month (UN News)
  • Note to Correspondents – on the Independent Review of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (OSSG)

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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