(UN News)* — Starving Gazans continue to be deprived of aid as international relief efforts are being severely constrained by the Israeli authorities, the UN humanitarian affairs coordination office OCHA said on Friday .
“Gaza is the hungriest place on Earth,” OCHA spokesperson Jens Laerke told reporters in Geneva, stressing that it is the only defined territory in the world where the entire population is at risk of famine.
“The aid operation that we have ready to roll is being put in an operational straitjacket that makes it one of the most obstructed aid operations, not only in the world today, but in recent history,” he said
PORT SUDAN, 28 May 2025, (UNICEF)* – More than 7,700 cholera cases – including over 1,000 cases in children under the age of five – and 185 associated deaths have been reported in Khartoum State since January 2025, according to health authorities.
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UNICEF and partners are working with the Federal Ministry of Health to curb the spread of the deadly disease and save lives.
Since the beginning of the brutal conflict, more than 3 million people have been forced to flee their homes in Khartoum State and the violence has upended the lives of millions.
UNITED NATIONS, New York, 28 May 2025 – In 2025, as crises multiply and conflicts become increasingly protracted, humanitarian aid budgets are being slashed across the board.
Yet in many emergency settings, it is ordinary people – and especially women and girls – who are feeling the sharpest impact of these cuts.
For those caught up in crises that have already been neglected for years, the fallout is all the more brutal. But what does chronic underfunding look like?
Statement by UNICEF Regional Director for the Middle East and North Africa, Edouard Beigbeder
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.
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.
Incessant bombing, a near-total blockade of aid, and displacement orders are moving and trapping hundreds of thousands of people into ever-shrinking spaces.
(UN News)* — Gaza’s population is being “starved and denied the very basics,” while the region stands at a dangerous crossroads, the UN’s Middle East peace envoy warned the Security Council Wednesday , urging immediate action to halt the violence, restore aid and advance a two-State solution before time runs out.
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).
(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.
UN News/Daniel Dickinson | Organized crime gangs are operating in the Golden Triangle where Myanmar, Thailand and Laos converge.
According to the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), the production and trafficking of methamphetamine – an illegal synthetic stimulant – have risen sharply since 2021, particularly in Myanmar’s Shan State.
KUNENE REGION, Namibia, 27 May 2025 – Kuliua Maundu, 26, remembers the night seven years ago like it was yesterday. “I was at home when the pain started,” she said. “I thought it was just labour, so I tried to sleep, thinking I’d go to the hospital in the morning.”
(UN News)* — After another deadly weekend of Israeli attacks in Gaza, aid teams stressed once again on Monday that the “trickle” of supplies being allowed into the war-torn enclave will not halt famine.
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