Gaza Crisis: UN ramps up calls for humanitarian truce as Israeli bombardments cut communications, cripple healthcare

United Nations agencies and officials on Saturday reiterated calls for a humanitarian ceasefire in Gaza after another night of heavy bombing left hospitals and healthcare facilities without electricity and civilians across the enclave virtually “cut off from the outside world”.  https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2023/10/1142937
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Gaza Crisis: UN ramps up calls for humanitarian truce as Israeli bombardments cut communications, cripple healthcare
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Guterres ‘horrified’ by strike on ambulance convoy in Gaza

Guterres ‘horrified’ by strike on ambulance convoy in Gaza

04 Nov 2023

UN Secretary-General António Guterres said he was “horrified” by a strike on an ambulance convoy outside a hospital in the Gaza Strip on Friday, reiterating his appeal for a humanitarian ceasefire.

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Gaza: ‘The siege is the silent killer’

Gaza: ‘The siege is the silent killer’

22 Jan 2024

In Gaza, bombs and bullets are far from the only threat to life. Residents lack food and clean water, health facilities are practically nonexistent and communication with the outside world is patchy at best. 

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Lebanon: Medical aid arrives in Beirut amid intensifying Israeli strikes

Lebanon: Medical aid arrives in Beirut amid intensifying Israeli strikes

04 Oct 2024

As Lebanon suffered another night of heavy Israeli bombing, UN humanitarians and partners described how people desperate to flee the violence found the country’s main border crossing into Syria cut by a new dawn strike, forcing them to skirt “a huge crater” and rubble on foot, to reach the other side.