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The head of the Palestinian refugee agency UNRWA has said that certain Western countries’ decision to defund the UN body is a “collective punishment” that will cut the “lifeline” 2 million people in Gaza depend on.

GAZA: Intense fighting raged Saturday in the Gaza city of Khan Yunis, the main theater of conflict where the Israeli army is targeting the Palestinian Islamist militant group Hamas.

Failure to secure a ceasefire and increase aid deliveries has laid bare the world body’s shortcomings, experts warn

Prime Minister Mohammed Shtayyeh today discussed during a meeting with the new United Nations Humanitarian and Reconstruction Coordinator for Gaza,…

The UN agency for Palestinian refugees says the besieged Gaza Strip is experiencing the longest communications shutdown that has kept the territory cut off from the outside world over the past week.

The United Nations secretary-general urges all parties across the international community to recognize Palestinians’ right to statehood.

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has warned that acute shortages of food, water, as well as fuel, and medicine are putting people at risk of death in the Gaza Strip, urging an end to Israel’s war on the besieged territories.

A United Nations human rights expert underscores multiple instances of breach of the international law by the Israeli regime, which has brought the Gaza Strip under more than three months of a genocidal war.

United Nations human rights experts have warned that “every single person” in the war-torn Gaza Strip is facing hunger amid Israel’s war and blockade against the besieged enclave, calling for sustained delivery of aid to prevent starvation.

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Wednesday reiterated his call for an immediate humanitarian ceasefire in the besieged Gaza Strip.