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.

8 August

  • WFP food convoys moving into Gaza as starvation drives lawlessness, leaving the most vulnerable without food (WFP)
  • UNRWA Commissioner-General on Gaza: This is not aid. This is orchestrated killing (UNRWA)
  • Türk: Israel’s plan for complete military takeover of Gaza must be immediately halted (OHCHR)

7 August

  • Gaza: Hospitals ‘at near-total collapse’, staff overwhelmed by the injured (UN News)

6 August

  • UN agencies and NGOs warn that without immediate action most international NGO partners could be de-registered by [Israel] in coming weeks (OCHA oPt)
  • Just 1.5 per cent of Gaza’s agricultural land remains accessible and undamaged (UN News)

5 August

  • UNRWA Commissioner-General on Gaza: hunger has become the latest killer in Gaza (UNRWA)
  • Gaza Medical Supplies Blood Units (WHO/UNIFEED)
  • ASG Jenča warns Security Council of catastrophic risks as violence escalates in Gaza; urges immediate ceasefire and hostage release (UN DPPA)

4 August

  • New York Declaration on the Peaceful Settlement of the Question of Palestine and the Implementation of the Two-State Solution: Note by the Co-Chairs (English)
  • IOM Re-establishing Presence Across Syria to Support Humanitarian Efforts (IOM)
  • Türk calls for end to starvation of civilians and humiliation of hostages in Gaza (OHCHR)

3 August

  • GAZA / Humanitarian Aid (UNIFEED)

2 August

  • UNRWA Commissioner-General on Gaza: A so called “aid system” responsible for the killing of nearly 1,400 starving people (UNRWA)

1 August

31 July

30 July

  • High-Level Conference on Two-State Solution Concludes General Debate, Will Reconvene to Consider Outcome Document (UN)
  • With Gaza smouldering, ministers renew push for two-State solution at UN (UN News)
  • Gaza children starving despite Israeli ‘tactical pauses’, UN says (UN News)
  • Israel must immediately end violence, policies and practices against Palestinians in the occupied West Bank (OHCHR)

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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