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13/12/2025

Deep Concerns for Palestinians amid Intense Israeli Raids in Occupied West Bank

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(UN News)* — The UN human rights office, OHCHR, has expressed alarm at reports of a so-called “settler road” being built in the occupied West Bank.

Children sit outside a tent in Gaza.
© UNICEF/Mohammed Nateel | Children sit outside a tent in Gaza.

Around 100 hectares of Palestinian land have been reportedly confiscated to make way for the new route.

This would mark another step towards the progressive fragmentation of the West Bank, warned the head of the OHCHR’s Office in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, Ajith Sunghay.

“We are alarmed to hear that Israel has actually started building a new barrier and a road in the heart of the Jordan Valley,” he said on Friday [].

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12/12/2025

Gaza’s Maternal and Newborn Health System ‘Decimated’, United Nations Warns

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(UN News)* — Gaza’s health system for mothers and newborns has been “decimated”, the UN said on Thursday [], with Israeli attacks destroying almost all hospitals, cutting off medical supplies and driving sharp rises in maternal deaths, miscarriages and newborn fatalities amid mass displacement and hunger.

Medical equipment destroyed in an attack on a hospital in Gaza.
United Nations | Medical equipment destroyed in an attack on a hospital in Gaza.

According to the UN human rights office (OHCHR), more than 70,000 Palestinians have been killed since 7 October 2023, when Palestinian armed groups attacked communities in southern Israel, triggering Israel’s full-scale military assault on the enclave.

OHCHR said 94 per cent of Gaza’s hospitals have been damaged or destroyed, leaving pregnant women and newborns without essential care.

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12/12/2025

Nearly 795,000 Displaced Palestinians at Flood Risk after Storm Byron Makes Landfall in Gaza

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By the International Organization for Migration*

Geneva, 12 December 2025 – Storm Byron, a severe storm system that triggered flooding in Greece and Cyprus before reaching Gaza earlier this week, has now made landfall, bringing heavy rainfall that has already flooded multiple displacement sites and placed nearly 795,000* displaced Palestinians at heightened risk.

Flooding in Gaza has damaged shelters and left families exposed to rising risks. Photo: IOM 2025

Rainfall is expected to continue in the hours ahead, further straining conditions for families already living in unsafe shelters.

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12/12/2025

European Union: Ministers Propose Unprecedented Detention, Sanctions, and Stripping of Rights Based on Migration Status

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By Amnesty International*

Responding to EU home affairs ministers’ position on the EU Return Regulation agreed in Brussels on , Olivia Sundberg Diez, EU Advocate on Migration and Asylum at Amnesty International, said:

“EU ministers’ position on the Return Regulation reveals the EU’s dogged and misguided insistence on ramping up deportations, raids, surveillance, and detention at any cost…

… These punitive measures amount to an unprecedented stripping of rights based on migration status and will leave more people in precarious situations and legal limbo.

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11/12/2025

Eastern DR Congo Fighting Kills Scores, Cuts Food Aid and Drives Mass Displacement

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By Vibhu Mishra

(UN News)* — Intensifying fighting in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has claimed more than 70 civilian lives, displaced over 200,000 people and cut thousands off from food assistance, prompting UN warnings of a rapidly expanding humanitarian emergency spilling across borders.

Displaced people in eastern DR Congo. (file photo)
© MONUSCO/Aubin Mukoni | Displaced people in eastern DR Congo. (file photo)

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11/12/2025

Nights Under the Stars Tell Gaza’s Story of Survival

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By the International Organization for Migration*

Gaza City, 8 December 2025 – One month into the latest ceasefire in the Gaza Strip, a fragile calm has brought long-awaited relief for families who have endured unimaginable suffering and repeated displacement.

For the third time in over two years, after previously collapsed ceasefires, there is a small space for hope – a renewed opportunity for survival, safety, and dignity for nearly 2 million Palestinians.

Thousands of families remain without a roof over their heads. For months on end, many have lain awake beneath the open sky.

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10/12/2025

US: Close Fort Bliss Immigration Detention Site

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By Human Rights Watch*

Allegations of Inhumane Conditions, Sexual Abuse, Deportation Threats

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Protesters opposing mass deportations by ICE hold signs during a protest held at Fort Bliss, the US Army base where a large new ICE detention facility is being built, in El Paso, Texas, August 17, 2025. © 2025 REUTERS/Paul Ratje

(Washington, DC) – Human rights groups on 8 December 2025 urged US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to end immigration detention at Camp East Montana, a massive tent camp at the Fort Bliss military base in El Paso, Texas.

In their letter, advocates summarized accounts of horrific conditions, including beatings and sexual abuse by officers against detained immigrants, beatings and coercive threats to compel deportation to third countries, medical neglect, hunger and insufficient food, and denial of meaningful access to counsel, among other rights violations.

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10/12/2025

Gaza’s Babies ‘Scarred by War Before First Breath’ by Malnutrition

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(UN News)* — Mothers who’ve been left starving in Gaza are now giving birth to underweight or premature babies who die in intensive care units or struggle to survive as they endure acute malnutrition, the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) warned on Tuesday [].

 
A newborn at Al Shifa hospital in Gaza City. Aid agencies say that Israeli aid restrictions have depleted hospitals and "starved and stressed" mothers.
© UNFPA/Bisan Ouda | A newborn at Al Shifa hospital in Gaza City. Aid agencies say that Israeli aid restrictions have depleted hospitals and “starved and stressed” mothers.

Speaking from the shattered enclave, UNICEF Communication Manager Tess Ingram said that at least 165 children are reported to have died “painful, preventable deaths” related to malnutrition during the war between Hamas fighters and Israel.

A lesser-known scourge is acute hunger among pregnant and breastfeeding women and “the devastating domino effect” of this lack of a healthy diet on thousands of newborns.

 

 

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10/12/2025

‘All we want for Sudan is peace’ Say Children Fleeing Violence

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(UN News)* — Nahed was visiting Sudan’s capital Khartoum with her family to celebrate Eid, a major Islamic holiday, when the war broke out between the rival armies vying for control of her homeland.
 
A woman walks through a camp for people who fled violence in North Darfur.
© UNICEF/Mohammed Jamal | A woman walks through a camp for people who fled violence in North Darfur.

Only 16 at the time, she saw armed men attacking her village and killing people – her grandfather and uncle among them. Girls were raped or taken.

“Nahed managed to escape but said it was terrifying,” said UNICEF Executive Director Catherine Russell who described Nahed’s story on Tuesday [].

“The chilling memories remain.”

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09/12/2025

Global Atrocity Risks Rising, Warns New United Nations Adviser on Genocide Prevention

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(UN News)* — The world is witnessing an alarming erosion of respect for international law, with conflicts increasingly targeting civilians and heightening the risk of atrocity crimes, warns the United Nations’ newly appointed Special Adviser on the Prevention of Genocide.

Chaloka Beyani (at podium), Special Adviser on the Prevention of Genocide, addresses the dedication of the "Flower of Srebrenica" Memorial at UN Headquarters honouring the victims of the 1995 genocide in Srebrenica.
UN Photo/Ariana Lindquist | Chaloka Beyani (at podium), Special Adviser on the Prevention of Genocide, addresses the dedication of the “Flower of Srebrenica” Memorial at UN Headquarters honouring the victims of the 1995 genocide in Srebrenica.

In his first interview since assuming the post in August, Chaloka Beyani reflected on the origins of his mandate, created by the UN Security Council in the wake of the genocides in Rwanda and Srebrenica, and drew sobering parallels with the crises unfolding today. 

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