UN response to the conflict in the Middle East

3 October

Statement on Gaza by Tom Fletcher, Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator (OCHA)
Statement attributable to the Spokesperson of the Secretary-General – on Gaza (OSSG)
Palestine: Any peace plan must respect international law, beginning with self-determination and accountability, urge UN experts (OHCHR)
Shoeless, starving, and nowhere to go: The brutal logic imposed on Gaza’s children (UNICEF)
UN Relief Chief calls Trump’s plan a “window of opportunity” for aid and hostage release (OCHA)

2 October

“I had no choice but to deliver my own baby”: Health workers in Gaza city describe impossible conditions (UNFPA)
UNRWA Commissioner-General on Gaza: No one has the license to kill civilians (UNRWA)
Gaza’s many injured will need rehabilitation care and support for years to come (WHO)
UNESCO Director-General condemns the killing of photojournalist Mahmoud Islim Al-Basos in Palestine (UNESCO)

1 October

The world is failing Gaza’s starving children, aid teams warn

© WHO/Christopher Black Children treated in a temporary field hospital in Mouraj, a neighbourhood in the south of the Gaza Strip.

As Israeli forces continued their push to take full control of Gaza City on Wednesday, reports emerged that another skeletal child whose plight was highlighted by the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has now died. Her name was Jana and she was nine years old. (UN News)

‘Gaza Is About Our Collective Humanity.’ UNRWA’s Juliette Touma on the Toll of Israel’s War (UNRWA)
UNRWA Commissioner-General on Gaza: On average 100 people are reported killed every day in Gaza (UNRWA)

30 September

UNRWA Commissioner-General on Gaza: The education of children must be part of any agreement to end the war in Gaza (UNRWA)
Statement attributable to the Spokesperson for the Secretary-General – on the announcement of a plan for Gaza (OSSG)

29 September

UNRWA Commissioner-General on Gaza: Israel’s constraints on UNRWA have caused the physical destruction of the Palestinians in Gaza (UNRWA)
Report of the Secretary-General on the Implementation of UN Security Council Resolution 2334 (2016) (UNSCO)

26 September

UN Human Rights Office updates database of businesses involved in Israeli settlements in occupied West Bank (OHCHR)

25 September

Gaza City suffering escalates as Israeli strikes inflict more heavy casualties (UN News)
Intervention of UNRWA Commissioner-General Philippe Lazzarini at the Meeting of the Global Alliance for the Implementation of the Two-State Solution (UNRWA)
Statement by UNRWA Commissioner-General Philippe Lazzarini at the Ministerial Meeting on UNRWA during High-Level Week at the 80th UNGA (UNRWA)