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

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

28 August

  • EU aid reaches 23,000 Palestine Refugees from Syria striving to survive in Lebanon (UNRWA)
  • Security Council: UN peacekeeping mission in Lebanon extended for a ‘final time’ (UN News)
  • Security Council Votes on Renewal of Mission in Lebanon (UN)
  • Jean-Pierre Lacroix: The UN sees peace on the Lebanese horizon (UN)
  • WFP chief visits Palestine and Israel, calls for immediate surge of aid into Gaza and safe access to reach the most vulnerable families (WFP)
  • Secretary-General’s press encounter on Gaza (EOSG)
  • UN / GUTERRES GAZA (UNifeed)
  • Readout of WFP Executive Director’s Meetings in Israel and Palestine (WFP)
  • UN experts alarmed by reports of enforced disappearances at Gaza Humanitarian Foundation aid distribution sites (OHCHR)

27 August

UNFPA Video: What does a hungry child wish for in Gaza? (UNFPA)

  • UNRWA Commissioner-General on Gaza: No place is safe in Gaza. No one is safe (UNRWA)
  • UN / GAZA FAMINE SECURITY COUNCIL PRESSER (UNifeed)
  • UN / GAZA ISRAEL PALESTINE (UNifeed)
  • Republic of Korea Provides USD 30 Million in Humanitarian Support to the Gaza Strip through UNDP, UNICEF and WFP in Coordination with the Palestinian Government (UNDP)
  • UN / GAZA ISRAEL PALESTINE (UNifeed)
  • “Failure to act will have irreversible consequences,” UN Deputy Relief Chief tells Security Council on Gaza famine (OCHA)

26 August

  • UNESCO Director-General condemns the killing of journalists Hossam Al-Masri, Mohammed Salama, Mariam Abu Daqqa, Moaz Abu Taha and Ahmad Abu Aziz in Palestine (UNESCO)
  • GAZA / JABALIA DISPLACED POPULATION (UNifeed)
  • OHCHR / GAZA JOURNALISTS KILLINGS (UNifeed)

25 August

  • UNRWA Commissioner-General on Gaza: more journalists killed today (UNRWA)
  • Statement on Israeli strike on Nasser Hospital in Gaza (OSSG)
  • Gaza/Hunger Lack of Jobs (DGC/UNIFEED)

24 August

  • UNRWA Commissioner-General on Gaza: Famine is the last calamity hitting the people of Gaza (UNRWA)

23 August

  • UNRWA Commissioner-General on Gaza: It’s time for the Government of Israel to stop denying the famine it has created in Gaza (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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