2 April
Guterres warns of ‘wider war’ as Middle East conflict enters second month
The Middle East crisis has lurched into its second month, prompting UN Secretary-General António Guterres to issue a stark warning on Thursday morning that the world is “on the edge of a wider war” with catastrophic global implications (UN News)
- Middle East crisis exposes global energy fault line as UN urges shift to renewables (UN News)
- “It feels like the whole world is complicit” – What displacement feels like for women in Lebanon conflict (UN Women)
- Press Release – Israel’s death penalty law constitutes discriminatory regime of capital punishment: UN experts (OHCHR)
- UNICEF restores water access for tens of thousands of children in Gaza (UNICEF)
1 April
- Breaking the Gaza aid bottleneck: 106-tonne delivery arrives via new sea route (UN News)
- Middle East war: UN’s Türk decries ‘severe restrictions’ on free speech (UN News)
- Middle East war: Energy crunch hits vulnerable nations (UN News)
- Joint Statement by the Heads of the International Energy Agency, International Monetary Fund, and World Bank Group (World Bank)
31 March
- Gaza Strip: FAO scales up conditional cash assistance to 1 000 more farmers, calls for liberalization of private sector imports of agricultural inputs (FAO)
- Message from the outgoing Commissioner-General to UNRWA staff (UNRWA)
- Humanitarian crisis for children deepens after one month of war in the Middle East (UNICEF)
- Live Updates: Escalating Conflict in the Middle East: A Growing Humanitarian Crisis (IOM)
- UN Relief Chief tells Security Council: “We cannot let Lebanon fail” (OCHA)
- Over 200,000 people cross into Syria after a month of hostilities in Lebanon (UNHCR)
- Assistant Secretary-General Khaled Khiari – Remarks to the Security Council on the situation in Lebanon (UN DPPA)
- Lebanon at ‘breaking point’ as displacement soars and strikes intensify (UN News)
- Lebanon: The UN peacekeepers helping communities who’ve stayed behind (UN News)
- Syria: Hundreds of thousands flee Lebanon, vital food aid blocked (UN News)
- ‘No precedent’ for seafarers caught in war zone in post-WW2 era (UN News)
- Israel: Türk warns against legislative steps targeting Palestinians in violation of international law (OHCHR)
- Escalation in the Middle East reverses more than a year of economic growth in the Arab States region, according to new UNDP assessment (UNDP)
- UN facilitates return of evacuated Gaza children amid worsening conditions (OCHA)
30 March
UN condemns killing of two more peacekeepers in Lebanon
The United Nations has condemned two consecutive days of deadly attacks on peacekeepers serving with the UN Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL), amid rising hostilities between Israeli forces and Hezbollah militants. (UN News)
