Gaza: News, Stories & Official Statements

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

19 January

  • Born into hell (UNICEF)
  • Carnage in Gaza: ‘How much is enough?’ asks UN Assembly President (UN News)
  • Statement on Gaza by UN Women Executive Director Sima Bahous (UN Women)
  • Facts and figures: Women and girls during the war in Gaza (UN Women)
  • Gaza: Report from the ground (OHCHR)

18 January

  • Expected socioeconomic impacts of the Gaza war on neighbouring countries in the Arab region (ESCWA / UNDP)
  • Statement by UNICEF Deputy Executive Director Ted Chaiban upon conclusion of his visit to the Gaza Strip (UNICEF)

17 January

  • The Gaza Strip: the struggle for daily survival amid death, exhaustion and despair (UNRWA)
  • Glimpses of hope amid escalating crises in the Middle East (OCHA)
  • Statement by Jorge Moreira da Silva, UN Under-Secretary-General and UNOPS Executive Director, following his visit to Gaza (UNOPS)

14 January

  • UNRWA frontline heroes: Ahlam works tirelessly to keep aid flowing (UNRWA)

13 January

  • How is the UN helping civilians in Gaza? (UN News)
  • The Gaza Strip: 100 days of death, destruction and displacement (UNRWA)

12 January

  • Application of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide in the Gaza Strip (South Africa v. Israel) (ICJ Press Release)
  • Israel -Occupied Palestinian Territory situation, 100 days on (OHCHR)
  • Children in Gaza still at the sharp end of unrelenting war (UNICEF)
  • Mr. Martin Griffiths, Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator – Briefing to the UN Security Council on the humanitarian situation in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territory (OCHA)
  • Diary of a displaced aid worker from Gaza (OCHA)

10 January

  • Proceedings instituted by South Africa against Israel on 29 December 2023 – Request for the indication of provisional measures – Revised schedule for the public hearings (ICJ Press Release)
  • UN Human Rights Office – OPT: UN Human Rights Office in Occupied Palestinian Territory warns Israeli strikes are placing civilians at serious risk in Deir Al Balah, Middle Gaza (OHCHR)

5 January

  • Intensifying conflict, malnutrition and disease in the Gaza Strip creates a deadly cycle that threatens over 1.1 million children (UNICEF)
  • The war in Gaza must end – Statement by Martin Griffiths, Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator (OCHA)

4 January

  • #HearTheirVoices – The Struggle for Proper Health Care in Shelters in the Gaza Strip (UNRWA)

3 January

  • Proceedings instituted by South Africa against the State of Israel on 29 December 2023 – Request for the indication of provisional measures – Public hearings to be held on Thursday 11 and Friday 12 January 2024 (ICJ Press Release)
  • October 2023 in Gaza: the deadliest month in a twenty-first century war? (ESCWA)
  • #UNRWAWorks. Frontline Hero: Jalal Keeps Working (UNRWA)

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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