Archive for May 29th, 2025

29/05/2025

‘Unimaginable Horrors’: More Than 50,000 Children Reportedly Killed or Injured in Gaza – UNICEF

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Statement by UNICEF Regional Director for the Middle East and North Africa, Edouard Beigbeder

2 year old Alma. Gaza City, Al-Rimal, Omar Al-Mukhtar Street 2025
 
UNICEF/UNI767014/Nateel2 year old Alma. Gaza City, Al-Rimal, Omar Al-Mukhtar Street March 2025

AMMAN, 27 May 2025 (UNICEF)* – “In a 72-hour period this weekend, images from two horrific attacks provide yet more evidence of the unconscionable cost of this ruthless war on children in the Gaza Strip.

“On Friday, we saw videos of the bodies of burnt, dismembered children from the al-Najjar family being pulled from the rubble of their home in Khan Younis. Of 10 siblings under 12 years old, only one reportedly survived, with critical injuries.

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29/05/2025

‘Displacement orders are psychological and physical warfare in Israeli campaign of ethnic cleansing in Gaza’

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By Médecins sans Frontières (Doctors Without Borders)*

JERUSALEM, 27 May 2025 The Israeli forces continue to systematically use last-minute displacement orders as a violent tool, turning the Gaza Strip, Palestine, into hell on earth for Palestinians.

The rubbles in Gaza
Palestinian family set up a place over the rubble of their destroyed house in Beit Lahia city, north of Gaza Strip, Palestine, February 2025.© NOUR ALSAQQA/MSF
Incessant bombing, a near-total blockade of aid, and displacement orders are moving and trapping hundreds of thousands of people into ever-shrinking spaces.

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29/05/2025

Gaza’s Population Is Being “Starved and Denied the Very Basics,” While the Region Stands at a Dangerous Crossroads

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Gaza: Top UN envoy calls on Israel to end devastating strikes, starvation of civilians

Massive mounds of waste are resulting in spread of disease in Gaza. (file photo)
© UNRWA | Massive mounds of waste are resulting in spread of disease in Gaza. (file photo)

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29/05/2025

Climate Predictions Show Temperatures Expected to Remain at or Near Record Levels in Coming 5 Years

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28 May 2025 — Global climate predictions show temperatures are expected to continue at or near record levels in the next five years, increasing climate risks and impacts on societies, economies and sustainable development, according to a new report from the World Meteorological Organization (WMO).

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29/05/2025

Exponential Rise in Synthetic Drug Production and Trafficking in the Golden Triangle

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  (UN News)* — The Golden Triangle – the remote, jungle-covered border region where Thailand, Myanmar, and the Lao People’s Democratic Republic meet – has seen an exponential surge in the illicit manufacture and trafficking of synthetic drugs.

Organized crime gangs are operating in the Golden Triangle where Myanmar, Thailand and Laos converge.
UN News/Daniel Dickinson | Organized crime gangs are operating in the Golden Triangle where Myanmar, Thailand and Laos converge.

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