famine
A top United Nation official appealed for €2.6 billion on Tuesday to provide desperately needed aid to 3 million Palestinians, stressing that preventing a looming famine in war-torn Gaza requires not only food but sanitation, water and health facilities. Andrea De Domenico, head of the UN humanitarian office for Gaza and the West Bank, informed reporters that extensive efforts are needed to restore these essential services and meet basic standards, which cannot be accomplished during military operations. He highlighted the widespread destruction of hospitals, water and sanitation facilities, h...
Euronews (English)
A ruinous conflict raging for about a year between rival generals in Sudan risks creating the world’s largest hunger crisis, the top UN food official warned on Wednesday. While global attention has been focused on the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza, Cindy McCain, head of the World Food Program, said the fighting in Sudan has shattered the lives of millions across the north-eastern African nation. “The war in Sudan risks triggering the world’s largest hunger crisis,” McCain said as she wrapped up a trip to neighbouring South Sudan, where hundreds of thousands of Sudanese have fled the fighting in the...
Euronews (English)
Impossible to aid Palestinians amid unrelentling conflict - UNThe United Nations has said it is almost impossible to assist Gaza's 2.3 million people due to the ongoing violence. It made the comments in response to recent Israeli claims that the international organisation itself is failing to deliver much-needed food, water and medicine to civilians in the embattled enclave. On Wednesday, UN spokesperson Stephane Dujarric told reporters a breakdown of law and order in Gaza and “insufficient coordination” with Israel on security was putting the lives of humanitarian workers at risk. “That’s why...
Euronews (English)
The UN's agency for Palestinian refugees was last able to deliver food into northern Gaza over a month ago, UNRWA Commissioner-General warned on Sunday, calling for food aid to be allowed into the area on a regular basis. "The last time UNRWA was able to deliver food aid to northern Gaza was on 23 January," Philippe Lazzarini wrote on X, formerly Twitter. "Our calls to send food aid have been denied & have fallen on deaf ears. This is a man made disaster." "Famine can still be avoided, through genuine political will to grant access & protection to meaningful assistance. The days to come will o...
Euronews (English)
The World Food Program said on Tuesday it had suspended food deliveries to northern Gaza due to the increasing chaos across the enclave, raising fears of famine. One in six children in the north are "accurately malnourished", according to a study by the UN's children's agency. Entry of aid trucks into the besieged territory has been more than halved in the past two weeks, UN figures show. Overwhelmed UN and relief workers said aid deliveries have been crippled by Israel's bombardment and ground offensive and a collapse in security, with desperate Palestinians frequently overwhelming trucks to ...
Euronews (English)
閲覧を続けるには、ノアドット株式会社が「プライバシーポリシー」に定める「アクセスデータ」を取得することを含む「nor.利用規約」に同意する必要があります。
「これは何?」という方はこちら