The humanitarian community calls for an end to the so called "Gaza Humanitarian Foundation" (GHF) since it provides nothing but starvation and gunfire to the people of #Gaza. Since this scheme began, ...

UNRWA is the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East. The United Nations General Assembly established UNRWA in 1949 with a mandate to provide humanitarian ...

Gaza: no fuel allowed into the enclave for more than four months now. Without fuel, waste is piling up, clean water running out, clinics shutting down, electricity and telecoms patchy. All is ...

Gaza: the new aid distribution system has become a killing field. Over 400 starving people reported killed since it started operating just a month ago. They were shot at while trying to access food ...

Gaza: Hope and anticipation for a ceasefire deal. It’s so desperately needed & long overdue. People in Gaza are exhausted after nearly 660 days of war, displacement, bombing, siege. A deal is ...

On 18 March 2020, Mr Philippe Lazzarini was appointed Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations and Commissioner-General of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the ...

Gaza : tragedies go on unabated while attention shifts elsewhere. Scores of people have been killed and injured in the past days including of starving people trying to get some food from a lethal ...

According to OCHA, between 7 October 2023 and 7 June 2025, 943 Palestinians – among them at least 200 children – were killed in the occupied West Bank, including East Jerusalem. Of those, 137 ...

Let me first give you an overview of the occupied Palestinian territory and the work of UNRWA. In Gaza, atrocities continue while global attention shifts elsewhere. A confined and captive population ...

Introduction This protection brief focuses on the heightened risks older persons face as a result of ongoing hostilities in Gaza. Older people have had essential roles in Gaza— leading communities, ...