Tag: famine

A UN Commission of Inquiry has concluded for the first time that Israel has committed genocide against Palestinians in Gaza. The report, described as the “most authoritative UN finding to ...

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Turk has stated that the famine declared today in Gaza Governorate by the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) is the "direct result ...

The UN-backed Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) has confirmed famine in Gaza. The UN classification system for monitoring world hunger and food security has raised its classification to Phase ...

Sudan’s conflict has taken another deadly turn after the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) launched a violent assault on a famine-stricken displacement camp near el-Fasher, the capital of North Darfur ...

US Special Envoy, Steve Witkoff and US Ambassador to Israel, Mike Huckabee visited the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) aid distribution site in Rafah on Friday, August 1, 2025, to inspect ...

Philippe Lazzarini, the Head of the UN’s agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA), has reacted to the IPC famine alert, saying in a post on X, that the famine in Gaza ...

The Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) has issued an alert, saying, "the worst-case scenario of famine is currently playing out in the Gaza Strip." The alert from the UN-backed ...

Eight International rights groups said on Tuesday, November 12, 2024, that Israel has failed to meet a deadline set by the United States to allow more humanitarian aid into the Gaza ...

The United Nations humanitarian office has said that Israel’s monthlong offensive in northern Gaza is preventing the estimated 75,000 to 95,000 Palestinians from receiving essential items for their survival. Also, ...

Juliette Touma, UNRWA’s Global Director of Communications, has emphasized that Israel has no alternative for the agency's humanitarian activities in the besieged enclave. She said that Israel’s ban on the ...