UN agency for Palestinian refugees launches $95 million appeal to keep COVID at bay

The COVID-19 pandemic has sparked a health and socio-economic emergency across the occupied Palestinian territory, the UN agency for the region warned on Friday, noting a swell of coronavirus cases in recent weeks.

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World News in Brief: Health access in Israel-Palestine, Myanmar bombing, child refugee mental health

10 Oct 2023

The World Health Organization (WHO) has called for access to health and humanitarian assistance amid the conflict in Israel and the occupied Palestinian territory.

Israel-Palestine crisis has region ‘at a tipping point’: UN relief chief

10 Oct 2023

The top UN humanitarian official on Tuesday called for an end to the escalating violence in the Occupied Palestinian Territory and Israel, warning that “the whole region is at a tipping point.”

Coronavirus update: COVID-19 likely to cost economy $1 trillion during 2020, says UN trade agency

09 Mar 2020

Apart from the tragic human consequences of the COVID-19 coronavirus epidemic, the economic uncertainty it has sparked will likely cost the global economy $1 trillion in 2020, the UN’s trade and development agency, UNCTAD, said on Monday.