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.

10 July

  • UNRWA Commissioner-General on Gaza: It’s been more than 640 days on the ongoing ban of international media from entering Gaza (UNRWA)
  • UNICEF deplores ‘unconscionable’ killing of families lining up for aid in Gaza (UN News)
  • Yemen: Briefing by the UN Special Envoy for Yemen, Hans Grundberg, to the Security Council (OSESGY)

9 July

  • Yemen: deserves hope and dignity, Security Council hears (UN News)
  • UN warns of deepening health crisis in Gaza amid mass casualty incidents (UN News)
  • UNRWA Commissioner-General on Gaza: A second Nakba? (UNRWA)

8 July

Gaza: Hospitals rationing critical supplies, ambulances stalling

© UNICEF/Eyad El Baba Women look across a temporary camp near the Philadelphi Corridor in Rafah, Gaza.
© UNICEF/Eyad El Baba – Women look across a temporary camp near the Philadelphi Corridor in Rafah, Gaza.

UN humanitarians have warned that the catastrophic conditions in Gaza are worsening, as tents, schools, homes and medical facilities come under attack, and fuel supplies run out. (UN News)

  • Caux Democracy Forum Keynote Address by Philippe Lazzarini, Commissioner-General of UNRWA (UNRWA)

7 July

  • Letter from the President of the General Assembly on SG Letter to PGA on the Report of the Strategic Assessment on UNRWA (UN PGA)
  • Women of Gaza: Finding strength in safe spaces (UNFPA)

5 July

  • WFP delivers food inside Gaza amid restrictions and growing insecurity (WFP)

3 July

  • UN chief ‘appalled’ by worsening Gaza crisis as civilians face displacement, aid blockades (UN News)
  • Statement attributable to the Spokesperson for the Secretary-General – on the humanitarian crisis in Gaza (OSSG)
  • Forever-Occupation, genocide, and profit: Special Rapporteur’s report exposes corporate forces behind destruction of Palestine (UN HRC)

2 July

Gaza: Access to key water facility in Khan Younis disrupted, UN reports

UN News | A displaced family travels on a donkey-pulled cart carrying their belongings.

A key water reservoir serving Khan Younis in southern Gaza has become inaccessible following new Israeli displacement orders, sparking fears of a collapse in the city’s water distribution network and worsening already dire humanitarian conditions, the United Nations warned on Wednesday. (UN News)

  • UNRWA Commissioner-General on Gaza: Hope and anticipation for a ceasefire deal (UNRWA)

1 July

  • Families deprived of the means for survival, humanitarians warn (UN News)
  • UNRWA Commissioner-General on Gaza: The humanitarian community calls for an end to the so called “Gaza Humanitarian Foundation” (GHF) (UNRWA)
  • Iran: UN stays and delivers (UN News)

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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