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20/03/2024

Gaza: Increasing Numbers of Newborns on Brink of Death

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(UN News)* — UN humanitarians reiterated their resolve on Tuesday [] to help the people of Gaza, where increasing numbers of children are on “the brink of death” from acute hunger, caused by five months of intense Israeli bombardment and constant aid access denials.

On 5 March 2024, UNICEF and partners delivered 23 incubators to hospitals in Rafah, southern Gaza.
© UNICEF/Eyad El Baba | On 5 March 2024, UNICEF and partners delivered 23 incubators to hospitals in Rafah, southern Gaza.

“What doctors and medical staff are telling us is more and more they are seeing the effects of starvation; they’re seeing newborn babies simply dying because they (are) too low birth weight,” said Dr Margaret Harris from the UN World Health Organization (WHO).

“Increasingly, we’re seeing children that are at the point, brink of death that need refeeding,” the WHO spokesperson told journalists in Geneva, a day after global nutrition experts warned that famine could happen “anytime” in northern Gaza.

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19/03/2024

Imminent Famine in Northern Gaza Is ‘Entirely Man-Made Disaster’

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(UN News)* — Amid reports that the Israeli military stormed Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City on Monday [] in search of Hamas fighters, UN humanitarians warned that new food insecurity data indicates that famine could happen “anytime”.

A mother prepares a meal for her children outside their makeshift home in a refugee camp in Khan Younis, Gaza. (file)
© UNICEF/Abed Zagout | A mother prepares a meal for her children outside their makeshift home in a refugee camp in Khan Younis, Gaza. (file)

“Famine is projected to occur anytime between now and May 2024 in the northern governorates,” the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) said, upon publication of a new Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) report on Gaza.

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19/03/2024

Sudan Conflict: 24 Million Children Exposed to a Year of Brutality and Rights Violations, Facing ‘Generational Catastrophe’

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GENEVA (UN Human Rights)* 18 March 2024 – Twelve months into the armed conflict in Sudan, 24 million children are at risk of a generational catastrophe, and their rights to life, survival, protection, education, health, and development have all been gravely violated, a UN committee said.

Children displaced by the fighting and insecurity in Sudan, sheltering in Sennar in the Blue Nile state.
© UNICEF/Ahmed Elfatih Mohamdee | Children displaced by the fighting and insecurity in Sudan, sheltering in Sennar in the Blue Nile state.

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16/03/2024

After 13 Years of Conflict in Syria, almost 7.5 Million Children Are in Need of Humanitarian Assistance

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Prolonged exposure to conflict and deprivation taking a devastating long-term physical and mental toll on generation of children

Syria. A boy stands by the remains of collapsed buildings in Jableh district, northwestern Syria.
UNICEF/UN0779763/BelalA boy stands by the remains of collapsed buildings in Jableh district, northwestern Syria

DAMASCUS/AMMAN 15 March 2024 (UNICEF)* – After thirteen years of conflict in Syria, almost 7.5 million children in the country are in need of humanitarian assistance – more than at any other time during the conflict.

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16/03/2024

Top United Nations Officials Condemn the Rising Tide of Anti-Muslim Hate

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(UN News)* — Amid a rising tide of anti-Muslim hate, top UN officials condemned the scourge on Friday [] as the General Assembly adopted a resolution to push back against it during commemorations marking the International Day to Combat Islamophobia.

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Displaced girls play at a UNICEF-supported learning space in Al Salam, Sudan.
© UNICEF/Ahmed Elfatih Mohamdeen | Displaced girls play at a UNICEF-supported learning space in Al Salam, Sudan.

The new resolution, tabled by Pakistan, calls for, among other things, concerted action to fight ongoing violence against Muslims and requests the UN Secretary-General to appoint a special envoy to combat Islamophobia.

The world body created the International Day through a resolution adopted following attacks on two mosques Christchurch, New Zealand, that left 51 people dead on this day in 2019.

Prior to adopting the new resolution, by a vote of 113 in favour to none against, with 44 abstentions, a divided Assembly rejected by a close margin two amendments proposed by a group of European nations.

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16/03/2024

Gaza: 23 Million Tonnes of Debris ‘Will Take Years to Clear’; Acute Malnutrition Doubles in a Month

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(UN News)* — The war in Gaza has left a staggering almost 23 millions tonnes of rubble and unexploded weapons scattered across the enclave, UN humanitarians said on Friday [].

Children stand in front of a house demolished by a bombardment in the city of Rafah, south of the Gaza Strip...
© UNICEF/Eyad El Baba | Children stand in front of a house demolished by a bombardment in the city of Rafah, south of the Gaza Strip…

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15/03/2024

US Delivers Both Life –and Death– to a Devastated Gaza

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By Thalif Deen

UNITED NATIONS, Mar 14 2024 (IPS)* – The Biden administration’s sheer hypocrisy is reflected in its policy of dropping food packages into a devastated Gaza, while at the same time, it continues to arm Israel with missiles and heavy artillery to kill Palestinian civilians suffering hunger and starvation.

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Much of the Gaza Strip lies in ruins. Credit: UNRWA/Ashraf Amra. February 2024

As US Congressman Ro Khanna (Democrat of California) said last week: “You can’t have a policy of giving aid (to Palestinians) and giving Israel the weapons to bomb the food trucks at the same time.”

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15/03/2024

How the ‘Fight against Antisemitism’ Became a Shield for Israel’s Genocide

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By Jonathan Cook – TRANSCEND Media Service*

Western capitals no longer treat Israel like a state, a political actor capable of slaughtering children, but rather as a sacred cause. So any opposition has to be a blasphemy.

7 Mar 2024 – If you read the establishment media, you might conclude that a serious battle is being waged by Israel and its most ardent supporters to tackle an apparent new wave of antisemitism in the West.

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Jonathan Cook

In article after article, we are told how Israel and western Jewish leadership bodies are demanding our concern, and outrage, at a rise in anti-Jewish hate incidents.

Organisations such as the Community Security Trust in the UK and the Anti-Defamation League in the US produce lengthy reports on the relentless increase in antisemitism, especially since 7 October, and warn that action is urgently required.

Undoubtedly, there is a real threat of antisemitism and, as ever, it comes largely from the far right. Israel’s actions – and its false claim to be representing all Jews – only help to stoke it.

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15/03/2024

Haiti: World Food Programme ‘Will Be Forced to Stop Serving Hot Meals to Those Who Urgently Need Food as Soon as Next Week Due to Lack of Funds’

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(UN News)* — Out-of-control gang violence has created a humanitarian crisis in Haiti that the UN aims to help alleviate with the creation of an airbridge with the neighbouring Dominican Republic.

A group of displaced people hosted in a school in the center of Port-au-Prince, in site Jean-Marie Vincent.
© IOM/Antoine Lemonnier | A group of displaced people hosted in a school in the center of Port-au-Prince, in site Jean-Marie Vincent.

The UN Integrated Office in Haiti (BINUH) said on Wednesday [] that the air corridor will enable the transport of aid and ensure the safe relocation of staff both in and out of the country.

Speaking to reporters in New York on Thursday, UN Spokesperson Stéphane Dujarric said plans are being made for an aircraft to transport supplies and accommodate staff movements.

On the ground, relief agencies remain deeply concerned about the welfare of civilians reliant on aid.

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15/03/2024

Waves of Violence Have Displaced More Than 15,000 Haitians in Just a Week – “Port-au-Prince Is Under Siege”

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(UN News)* — Waves of violence have displaced more than 15,000 Haitians in just a week amid ongoing looting at the country’s main port, according to the latest report from the UN agency for migration, as the Security Council on Monday [] strongly condemned “destabilizing” criminal activity by armed gangs ravaging the Caribbean nation.

Displaced families are hosted in a school in the centre of Port-au-Prince, Haiti.
© IOM/Antoine Lemonnier | Displaced families are hosted in a school in the centre of Port-au-Prince, Haiti.

Council members urged the armed gangs to “immediately cease their destabilizing actions” and reiterated the call for the “perpetrators of these abhorrent acts to be brought to justice”, according to a statement issued following a closed-door briefing last week by the Secretary-General’s Special Representative and Head of the UN Integrated Office in Haiti (BINUH).

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