Silencing the last remaining voices reporting about children dying silently amid famine . The world’s indifference and inaction is shocking. Like Hannah Arendt said: “The death of human empathy is one ...

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 ...

Since March, nearly 100,000 children under the age of 5 screened by UNRWA In less than 6 months, child malnutrition tripled across the Gaza Strip. In Gaza City, nearly 1 in every three children is now ...

Nearly 360 personnel have been killed, several in the line of duty; ⁠Hundreds have been injured; Nearly 50 personnel have been arrested or detained and some were tortured before their release. Our ...

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Months of warnings have fallen on deaf ears. Famine is now confirmed in Gaza City. This is starvation by design and manmade by the Government of Israel. It is the direct result of banning food and ...

The manmade famine in Gaza has been largely shaped by the deliberate attempts to replace the UN coordinated humanitarian system through the politically motivated “GHF”. It is a so called “aid system” ...

Trucks carry twice as much aid as planes. If there is political will to allow airdrops - which are highly costly, insufficient and inefficient, there should be similar political will to open the road ...

We hope that UNRWA will be finally allowed to bring in thousands of trucks loaded with food, medicine and hygiene supplies. They are currently in Jordan and Egypt waiting for the green light. Opening ...

In Gaza, UNRWA schools have become shelters for hundreds of thousands of people. People sought protection under the UN flag only for these shelters to become a place for death including for too many ...