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Joint statement by UNICEF, WHO, UNFPA and UNRWA on Women and newborns bearing the brunt of the conflict in Gaza
East Jerusalem/Geneva/New York, 3 November 2023 – Women, children and newborns in Gaza are disproportionately bearing the burden of the escalation of hostilities in the occupied Palestinian territory, both as casualties and in reduced access to health services, warn the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA), the United Nations sexual and reproductive health agency (UNFPA), and the World Health Organization (WHO).
Palestinians recount settler, army torture amid surge in West Bank expulsions
Under the shadow of the Gaza war, Israel is displacing rural Palestinian communities en masse. In Wadi al-Siq, the ordeal was particularly horrifying.
Israel-Palestine war: At least 100 killed in air strike on Gaza’s Jabalia refugee camp
Palestinian officials say six US-made bombs targeted residential homes causing a ‘massacre’
These Are the Children Extracted After the Bombardment of Gaza’s Jabalya Refugee Camp
A Hamas terrorist was taken out of the debris, carried in his father’s arms. His face is covered with dust, his body jerking like a sack, his stare blank. It’s not clear if he’s alive or dead. He is a toddler of three or four, and his desperate father rushed him to the Gaza Strip’s Indonesian Hospital, which was already bursting with wounded and dead people.
The Gaza Strip: Four UNRWA shelters damaged in less than 24 hours
“In the past 24 hours alone, four UNRWA shelters were damaged in the Gaza Strip. “Today, a school-turned shelter was damaged at the Jabalia Refugee Camp, the largest in the….
Gaza is ‘running out of time’ UN experts warn, demanding a ceasefire to prevent genocide
GENEVA (2 November 2023) – Time is running out to prevent genocide and humanitarian catastrophe in Gaza, UN experts warned today, expressing deep frustration with Israel’s refusal to halt plans to decimate the besieged Gaza strip.
In defense of the freedom to speak out against genocide
Judith Butler writes the leadership of Hebrew University in defense of renowned scholar Dr. Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian, who has faced intimidation and pressure to resign since signing a letter calling for a ceasefire in Gaza.
From my hometown in Gaza, the unthinkable news: 36 of my family members are dead
The Khan Yunis refugee camp was supposed to be in the safe zone. But nowhere is safe – the very existence of Palestinians is under attack
The Gaza-ification of the West Bank
As the war in Gaza escalates, so, too, has the forcible displacement of Palestinians in the West Bank. Is Israel’s approach to the two regions linked?