The UN and the crisis in the Middle East: What you need to know (Jan-Jun 2025)

30 April

• Gaza: UNRWA Commissioner-General on Gaza – The war of narratives continue (UNRWA)

29 April

• Gaza: UNRWA Commissioner-General on Gaza: for UNRWA staff, humanitarian duty is met with brutality (UNRWA)
• Gaza: Türk calls on world to prevent total humanitarian catastrophe in Gaza (OHCHR)
• Gaza: Gender Matters Bulletin – No Relief in Sight: The impact of escalating hostilities, repeated displacement orders and the ongoing aid blockade on women, girls, men and boys in Gaza (UN Women)
• Gaza: Children in Gaza ‘going to bed starving’ amid blockade (UN News)
• Middle East: UNRWA Commissioner-General on the ICJ hearing on the presence and activities of the United Nations and other organisations in the occupied Palestinian territory (UNRWA)
• Middle East: Secretary-General’s remarks to the Security Council – on the Middle East (OSSG)

28 April

• Gaza: Israel’s restrictions on UN agencies in Gaza highlighted at world court (UN News)
• oPt: UNRWA Commissioner-General on the ICJ hearing on the presence and activities of the United Nations and other organisations in the occupied Palestinian territory (UNRWA)
• oPt: ICJ hearing statement on behalf of the Secretary-General of the United Nations by H.E. Ms. Elinor Hammarskjöld, Under-Secretary-General for Legal Affairs and United Nations Legal Counsel (UNRWA)

26 April

• Gaza: UN official warns of ‘assault on dignity’ as blockade cripples humanitarian response (UN News)

25 April

• Gaza: WFP runs out of food stocks in Gaza as border crossings remain closed (WFP)
• oPt: UN Human Rights Office – OPT: Deteriorating human rights and humanitarian situation in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (OHCHR–OPT)

23 April

Sewage, trash and disease overwhelm displaced communities in Gaza

Amid sweltering heat, raw sewage and overflowing trash, displaced families in southern Gaza are facing an escalating public health crisis as aid remains blocked and medical supplies dwindle. (UN News)

22 April

• Gaza: How much longer until hollow words of condemnation will translate into action to lift the siege (UNRWA)

17 April

• Gaza: Since the war began 1.5 years ago, the Israeli Authorities have banned the entry of international media to Gaza (UNRWA)

15 April

• Gaza: Medication shortages leave wounded people without full care in Gaza (UNRWA)
• Gaza: Statement by UNDP Administrator on the strike by Israeli forces on Al-Ahli Hospital and the dire humanitarian situation in Gaza (UNDP)

14 April

• Gaza: Statement attributable to the Spokesperson for the Secretary-General – on Gaza (OSSG)
• Gaza: Israeli attack puts Gaza City hospital out of service (UN News)
• Gaza: Thousands of Gaza patients waiting for urgent medical evacuation (UN News)

13 April

• Gaza: Resilience in the face of thirst: Trucking water in war-ravaged Gaza (UN News)

11 April

• Gaza: Between siege and survival: The unheard struggles of mothers in the West Bank (UNFPA)
• Gaza: Increasing Israeli “evacuation orders” lead to forcible transfer of Palestinians (OHCHR)

8 April

• Gaza: Secretary-General’s Press Encounter on Gaza (OSSG)
• East Jerusalem: UNRWA Commissioner-General: Israeli officials from the Jerusalem Municipality, accompanied by Israeli Security Forces, forcibly entered six UNRWA schools in East Jerusalem (UNRWA)

7 April

• Gaza: World must act with urgency to save Palestinians in Gaza, top UN officials say (Joint Statement)
• Gaza: Healthy Beginnings, Hopeful Futures – On World Health Day WHO calls for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza (WHO)
• Middle East: UNRWA Commissioner-General: it’s World Health Day, a day where we should all be celebrating health and healing (UNRWA)
• oPt: UNRWA: A Lifeline for the Displaced Families in the Northern West Bank (UNRWA)

5 April

• Gaza: More than a million children in the Gaza Strip deprived of lifesaving aid for over one month (UNICEF)

4 April

• Gaza: WHO / GAZA BAKERIES CLOSURE (UNifeed)
• oPt: Türk warns UN Security Council of increasing risk of atrocity crimes being committed in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (OHCHR)

3 April

• Gaza: ‘Every piece tells a story’: Bombs to beauty, from Gaza to Ukraine (UN News)
• Gaza: UNRWA Commissioner-General, Gaza: Hunger and desperation spread as food and relief assistance are being weaponized (UNRWA)

2 April

• Gaza: UNRWA Commissioner-General, Gaza: Even ruins have become a target (UNRWA)
• Gaza: “Gaza has become a death trap,” warns OCHA official (OCHA)
• Gaza: Note to Correspondents – situation in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (OSSG)

1 April

• Gaza: Comment by UN Human Rights Chief Volker Türk on the killing of Gaza humanitarian workers by Israeli army (OHCHR)
• Gaza: WFP BAKERIES (UNifeed)