Gaza: News, Stories & Official Statements

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

19 March

  • Gaza: Increasing numbers of newborns on brink of death, agencies warn (UN News)

18 March

  • #UNRWAworks. Frontline heroes: the race against the clock to avert famine (UNRWA)
  • Famine imminent in northern Gaza, new report warns (WFP)
  • Projected famine in Gaza: FAO urges immediate access to deliver urgent and critical assistance at scale (FAO)
  • Palestinian unemployment rate set to soar to 57 per cent during first quarter of 2024 (ILO)
  • Famine in Gaza is imminent, with immediate and long-term health consequences (WHO)

13 March

  • At least one UNRWA staff killed when Israeli forces hit UNRWA centre used for food and lifesaving supplies (UNRWA)

12 March

  • For the first time in weeks, UN aid teams reach Gaza City (UN News)
  • Humanitarian Needs and Response Update | 5 – 11 March 2024 (OCHA)

7 March

  • Gaza: Starvation claims more young lives as UN advocates for new aid routes (UN News)
  • ‘They destroyed us’: North Gazans flee homes in search of food and shelter (UN News)
  • Statement by UN Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process, Tor Wennesland, on Reported Advancement of Israeli Settlement Plans (UNSCO)

6 March

  • Application of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide in the Gaza Strip (South Africa v. Israel) (ICJ)

5 March

  • WFP food deliveries to northern Gaza face further setbacks (WFP)
  • Gaza: Efforts to deliver food aid to stricken north ‘largely unsuccessful’ (UN News)

4 March

  • Mission report: Official visit of the Office of the SRSG-SVC to Israel and the occupied West Bank, 29 January – 14 February 2024 (SRSG-Sexual Violence in Conflict)
  • Statement of the Commissioner-General of UNRWA to the General Assembly (UNRWA)
  • Following visit to Israel and the occupied West Bank, UN Special Representative of the Secretary-General on Sexual Violence in Conflict, Ms.Patten, finds sexual violence occurred on 7 Oct, and against hostages and calls for a fully-fledged investigation (OSRSG Sexual Violence in Conflict)

3 March

Statement by Adele Khodr, UNICEF Regional Director for the Middle East and North Africa, on malnourished babies in Gaza slowly perishing under the world’s gaze (UNICEF)

1 March

  • ‘I need food for my children – that’s it’: In Gaza, EU support is a lifeline for people facing famine (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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