UPDATING LIVE: Head of Palestine relief agency due to brief Security Council on Gaza crisis

The Commissioner-General of the UN relief agency for Palestine refugees (UNRWA) is due to brief the Security Council at 3:00 PM in New York on Wednesday as the humanitarian crisis in Gaza worsens and Israeli demands to abolish the frontline agency, intensify.

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UPDATING LIVE: Head of Palestine relief agency due to brief Security Council on Gaza crisis

‘Insidious campaign’ by Israel is denying life-saving aid to Gaza says UNRWA chief

17 Apr 2024

The Commissioner-General of the UN relief agency for Palestine refugees (UNRWA) briefed the Security Council in New York on Wednesday as the humanitarian crisis in Gaza worsens, telling ambassadors that life-saving deliveries are being blocked by Israel as part of an "insidious campaign" to push it out of the Occupied Palestinian Territory.

‘We have failed the people of Gaza,’ Guterres tells ministers

26 Sep 2024

The UN agency that supports Palestine refugees, UNRWA, is the only “outpost of hope” left in the hellscape that is Gaza, the UN Secretary-General told a high-level ministerial meeting on Thursday in New York.

UPDATING LIVE: Security Council meets on Gaza as risk of famine grows by the day

27 Feb 2024

Well over half a million Gazans are “one step away from famine”, say UN humanitarians, ahead of a Security Council meeting due to start at 3:00 PM in New York on food security in the stricken enclave. The deputy head of UN aid coordination told ambassadors that famine is "almost inevitable" unless aid can be scaled up. Follow our live coverage here.