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A limited amount of food was delivered to desperate Gazans for the first time since early March on Wednesday, but senior United Nations officials warned the supply was “nowhere near enough” to forestall the worsening humanitarian crisis.
The mishap is a major setback to the North Korean leader’s dream of modernizing his country’s outdated naval fleet.
A U.S.-backed organization aims to start work in the Gaza Strip by the end of May, overseeing a new model of aid distribution in the Palestinian enclave, but the United Nations says the plan is not impartial or neutral,
NBC News made a misleading social media post claiming thousands of Palestinian babies were in imminent danger of dying the day before an anti-Israel radical allegedly gunned down two Israeli
Protecting civilians in times of war is a moral imperative, Minister of Transport Alexis Vafeades said, while representing Cyprus at a UN Security Council working debate on the matter. The minister called on the UN to use every available tool to take concrete action and said Cyprus understood the urgency
The official reiterated that Hamas seeks a comprehensive package deal that includes the release of all hostages held in Gaza in exchange for an agreed number of Palestinian prisoners, a permanent ceasefire, a full Israeli withdrawal from the Gaza Strip, and the entry of humanitarian aid.
The United Nations human rights office in Colombia says that five Indigenous groups in northern Colombia’s storied mountain range face “physical and cultural” extinction.
Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs Tom Fletcher told the UN Security Council to act after last year the UN recorded ‘more than 36,000 civilian deaths in 14 armed conflicts’ on Thursday.