How can world powers stop Israel from attacking Gaza's medical facilities?

The United Nations says the health system in Gaza is on the verge of total collapse amid relentless Israeli attacks.

The United Nations says only 16 of the 36 hospitals in Gaza are functional, and even those are only able to offer partial services.

The UN has verified more than 650 Israeli attacks on medical facilities since the Israel-Palestine conflict began in October 2023, and at least 1,054 health workers have been killed.

Footage from UN vehicle shows scale of destruction in northern Gaza

Video recorded from UN vehicle shows the scale of devastation caused by Israel's assault on northern Gaza. The video, filmed during a UN drive-through on Wednesday, shows roads completely torn up and buildings reduced to rubble

Outrage over women's exclusion from UN-led talks with Taliban

Taliban officials are attending a United Nations conference on the future of Afghanistan. It's the first time that they've joined such talks. Activists have criticized the UN for inviting the Afghan rulers to the gathering in Qatar. Human-rights and women's groups accuse the Taliban of wide-ranging abuses.

War on Gaza: UN confirms killing of first international staff in Rafah in Israeli ‘attack’

The UN confirmed its first international staff casualty in Gaza after a UN vehicle was struck in Rafah. Farhan Haq, a spokesperson for UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, stated during a news conference that the total number of UN staff killed in Gaza since October 7 has reached 190.

Israel says over 300,000 flee Rafah, UN calls for investigation into Gaza mass graves

The Israeli military says more than 300,000 people in Rafah have already fled the area as fighting between Israeli troops and Palestinian militants intensifies in the southern region, which borders Egypt. Meanwhile, the UN Security Council is calling for an independent investigation into reports of mass graves found near hospitals raided by Israel in Gaza. There are "competing narratives" about hundreds of unidentified bodies discovered at Gaza hospitals over the past weeks, UN officials say.

Outrage as UN picks Saudi Arabia to head women's rights commission

Saudi Arabia will now be responsible for promoting gender equality worldwide. The kingdom has been chosen as the next chair of the UN's top forum for women's rights, despite its questionable record at home.

Gaza fighting continues: Can Israel be expected to allow humanitarian access?

The Israeli military says it has killed “numerous Palestinian militants” in fierce fighting in the southern Gaza city of Khan Younis. Hostilities continue unabated a day after the International Court of Justice in The Hague ordered Israel to do everything in its power to prevent genocide in the Gaza Strip.

Israeli army says it has encircled Khan Younis

The United Nations says that people sheltering in its training facility in the south of the Gaza Strip have been ordered to leave by the Israeli army by Friday afternoon — for their own safety. The warning comes a day after at least 12 people were killed when tank fire hit the shelter in Khan Younis.

UN resolution urges to boost aid deliveries to Gaza but doesn't call for a ceasefire

The UN Security Council has managed to pass a resolution on the conflict that had been in the works all week. Unlike in two previous votes, the US did not veto as US diplomats haggled over the wording of the text. It demands the facilitation of "safe and unhindered delivery of humanitarian assistance at scale.

UN official: Winter will make situation in Gaza much worse

 “We are witnessing a humanitarian tragedy in Gaza,” Juliette Touma of the UN agency, UNRWA told DW. More than 800,000 people have fled to United Nations emergency shelters in central and southern Gaza fleeing the fighting between Israeli defense forces and Hamas and other Islamist militants in ther north of the Gaza Strip, Touma said

Recent developments in the Israel-Hamas war | DW News

 

UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres says the situation in Gaza is growing desperate and that the number of civilians killed and injured is totally unacceptable. We look at how the war is stoking tensions in France and the United States between Jewish and Palestinian communities. And a detailed look at the military role the United States is playing in the conflict.

UN’s Navi Pillay: Israel has ‘no intention of ending occupation’

 The chair of the UN Commission of Inquiry discusses findings on ‘unlawful occupation of Palestinian Territory’.

Navi Pillay chairs the United Nations Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory and Israel.

Weeks before Hamas carried out its October 7 surprise offensive in southern Israel, and Israel launched a major military operation in Gaza, Pillay released a report (PDF).

It says: “The commission finds the increasingly militarised law enforcement operations of Israel and repeated attacks by Israel on Gaza are aimed at maintaining its unlawful 56-year occupation.”

Israeli military has told 1.1 millions Gazans to move to south, UN says

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The United Nations says it has been told by the Israeli military that some 1.1 million Palestinians in Gaza should relocate to the enclave’s south within the next 24 hours.

“The United Nations considers it impossible for such a movement to take place without devastating humanitarian consequences,” UN spokesman Stephane Dujarric said in a statement.

“The United Nations strongly appeals for any such order, if confirmed, to be rescinded avoiding what could transform what is already a tragedy into a calamitous situation,” he said.

Dujarric said the order by the Israeli military also applied to all UN staff and those sheltered in UN facilities, including schools, health centres and clinics.

UN spokesperson reportedly says such a movement would have ‘devastating humanitarian consequences’ as Israel prepares for a ground offensive; Palestinian death toll rises to 1,537, according to Gaza’s health ministry

Libya flood: How the country's divide is hampering humanitarian aid efforts

 

Libya's Red Crescent says more than 11,000 people are now known to have died in floods in the city of Derna. Large parts of the coastal city were swept away after torrential rain caused two dams to burst. The UN said many of the deaths could have been avoided if Libya had a functioning weather agency. There are concerns about disease spreading, with many bodies still lying in the ruins. Some aid and foreign rescue teams have arrived in Libya, but with the country divided and roads washed away, international help is struggling to reach those in need.

Can Mali win its battle for stability?

UN speeds up the withdrawal of its peacekeepers from Mali as new conflict breaks out.

The UN peacekeeping mission in Mali says the deteriorating security situation is forcing it to speed up its withdrawal from the country.

A week ago, six UN troops and dozens of fighters from an armed group were killed in confrontations near the northern city of Ber. The UN is already in the process of wrapping up its operations.

UN: Era of global boiling has begun

 United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has issued another stark warning on climate change, saying the era of 'global boiling' has begun. The UN's World Meterological Organization is predicting this month will be the hottest in human history. Mr Guterres has described the current intense heat in the northern hemishpere as a 'cruel summer.'

Is Israel’s attack on Jenin a war crime?

 

United Nations experts say Israeli forces’ actions amount to ‘egregious violations of international law’.

In one of the fiercest assaults in two decades on the occupied West Bank, Israeli forces brought death and widespread destruction to Jenin.

At least 12 Palestinians were killed and thousands were displaced from the Jenin refugee camp due to Israel’s two-day assault.

  

Sudan conflict could engulf region, UN warns - BBC News

 

The United Nations has warned that the conflict in Sudan risks “a catastrophic conflagration that could engulf the whole region and beyond”. The warning was made by United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres, speaking to the the UN Security Council in New York. He urged UN members to use their influence to stop the violence and restore the east African country to its democratic path.

The Taliban barred women from higher education last December, accusing them of violating the country's strict Islamic dress code. The university ban is just one of several measures imposed by the Taliban aimed at erasing women from public life.

Taliban ban women workers in NGOs, more than 25 million Afghans in need of help

 

The UN says it will continue to work in Afghanistan despite a Taliban order banning women from working for aid agencies. That order is in addition to a long line of Taliban diktats preventing women from accessing jobs, education and social equality.