19 May
UN Women estimates over 28,000 women and girls killed in Gaza since October 2023
UN Women estimates that more than 28,000 women and girls have been killed in Gaza since the beginning of the war in October 2023 – that is one woman and one girl on average killed every hour in attacks by Israeli forces. (UN Women)
- Gaza: UN Relief Chief welcomes renewed aid deliveries to Gaza, but stresses it’s only a “drop in the ocean” of what is needed (OCHA)
- Gaza: Escalation of attacks in Gaza with a pattern of strikes on Internally Displaced People’s (IDP) tents and residential buildings, as well as on crowded hospitals (OHCHR)
- Gaza: UN Women estimates over 28,000 women and girls killed in Gaza since October 2023 (UN Women)
- Gaza: As famine looms in Gaza, pregnant women and newborns face life-threatening health risks (UNFPA)
18 May
- Gaza: UNRWA Commissioner-General on Gaza – today, the UNRWA staff death toll has surpassed the gruesome milestone of 300 (UNRWA)
- Gaza: Eyewitness – ‘We have plenty of food ready to go into Gaza – we just need the go-ahead’ (WFP)
17 May
- Gaza: UNRWA Commissioner-General on Gaza – more than 250 Palestinians in Gaza have been reported killed in the last two days alone (UNRWA)
- Gaza: At Arab League Summit, Guterres reiterates call for Gaza ceasefire (UN News)
- Middle East: Secretary-General’s press encounter at the League of Arab States (OSSG)
- Middle East: Secretary-General’s remarks at the League of Arab States Summit (OSSG)
16 May
- Gaza: Statement by UNICEF Regional Director for the Middle East and North Africa, Edouard Beigbeder, on the killing of at least 45 children in the Gaza Strip (UNICEF)
- Gaza: Türk deplores Gaza escalation, pleads for global action to stop more killings (OHCHR)
- Gaza: UN Relief Chief demands rapid, safe, unimpeded aid delivery in Gaza (OCHA)
- Gaza: Briefing note – UN-Coordinated Plan to Resume Humanitarian Aid Deliveries to Gaza (OCHA)
- West Bank: UN Human Rights Office – OPT – Extrajudicial executions and other unlawful use of force in the occupied West Bank (OHCHR)
15 May
- Gaza: Briefing note on the Occupied Palestinian Territory: Food pipeline disruption and declining food availability in the Gaza Strip: Implications under international humanitarian and human rights law (FAO)
- Gaza: Study shows how UNRWA delivered emergency nutrition support to children in Gaza (UNRWA)
14 May
- Yemen: Mr. Tom Fletcher, Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator – Briefing to the Security Council on the humanitarian situation in Yemen (OCHA)
13 May
- Gaza: Mr. Tom Fletcher, Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator – Briefing to the Security Council on the humanitarian situation and the protection of aid workers in Gaza (OCHA)
- Gaza: UN Relief Chief calls on Security Council to act decisively to prevent genocide in Gaza (OCHA)
- Middle East: FAO at the 9914th meeting of the UN Security Council – The situation in the Middle East, including the Palestinian question (FAO)
12 May
- Gaza: Risk of famine for children across Gaza, new report says (UNICEF/WFP)
- Gaza: Statement attributable to the Spokesperson for the Secretary-General – on Gaza (OSSG)
- Gaza: With famine looming, FAO urges immediate access to save livelihoods and food production (FAO)
- Gaza: People in Gaza starving, sick and dying as aid blockade continues (WHO)
8 May
- East Jerusalem: UNRWA Commissioner-General on East Jerusalem: An assault on children. An assault on education (UNRWA)
7 May
- Gaza: UNRWA Commissioner-General on Gaza: No escape, death follows families in Gaza wherever they go (UNRWA)
- Gaza: Türk – Israeli plans to expand Gaza offensive aggravate concerns regarding Palestinians’ existence in the strip (OHCHR)
- Gaza: End unfolding genocide or watch it end life in Gaza: UN experts say States face defining choice (Special Rapporteurs)
4 May
- Gaza: Statement by the Humanitarian Country Team of the Occupied Palestinian Territory – on principled aid delivery in Gaza (OCHA)
2 May
Reporters in Gaza bear witness and suffer tragic consequences
“After losing my leg in the war, I returned to photojournalism not just for work, but because I have loved photography since childhood,” said Palestinian reporter Sami Shahada. (UN News)
- Gaza: Statement from UNICEF Executive Director Catherine Russell on the situation for children in the Gaza Strip after two months of aid blockade (UNICEF)
- Gaza: There can be no talk of a free press in the Occupied Palestinian Territory if journalists are being killed, and threatened for their work (OHCHR-OPT)
