Archive for October 24th, 2024

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24/10/2024

Loss and Uncertainty for Lebanon’s Children – UNICEF

Human Wrongs Watch

The conflict has displaced hundreds of thousands of children and their families.

 
Lebanon. A child displaced from southern Lebanon stands with his family in the background.
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24/10/2024

‘Intense Bombardments, Mass Displacements and Lack of Access in Northern Gaza Force the Postponement of Polio Vaccination Campaign’

Human Wrongs Watch

EAST JERUSALEM/AMMAN/GENEVA, 23 October 2024 (UNICEF/WHO)* – Due to the escalating violence, intense bombardment, mass displacement orders, and lack of assured humanitarian pauses across most of northern Gaza, the Polio Technical Committee for Gaza, including the Palestinian Ministry of Health, World Health Organization (WHO), United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) and partners have been compelled to postpone the third phase of the polio vaccination campaign, which was set to begin today.

A child receives a polio vaccine at a health clinic in Khan Younis, southern Gaz Strip.
UNICEF/UNI637065/El Baba
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This final phase of the ongoing campaign aimed to vaccinate 119,279 children across northern Gaza.

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24/10/2024

Northern Gaza: “The Smell of Death Is Everywhere as Bodies Are Left Lying on the Roads or Under the Rubble…”

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(UN News)* — The head of UN Palestine refugee agency UNRWA appealed on Tuesday [] for an immediate truce in northern Gaza in a social media post describing how “three weeks of non-stop bombardments” by Israeli forces have impacted the region.

The access of UN-coordinated humanitarian deliveries to northern Gaza has been largely denied over the past months, leaving people with very limited means to survive.
© UNOCHA/Themba Linden | The access of UN-coordinated humanitarian deliveries to northern Gaza has been largely denied over the past months, leaving people with very limited means to survive.
 
UNRWA staff report that they cannot find food, water or medical care, Commissioner-General Philippe Lazzarini wrote on X.

‘Just waiting to die’

“The smell of death is everywhere as bodies are left lying on the roads or under the rubble. Missions to clear the bodies or provide humanitarian assistance are denied,” he said.

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