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

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

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

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.”

Israel urged to allow humanitarians to continue working in Palestine

18 Aug 2022

Allow human rights and humanitarian organizations to continue their work in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT), UN agencies and other partners have urged Israel.

Ceasefire can’t hide scale of destruction in Gaza, UN warns, as rights experts call for ICC probe

21 May 2021

The humanitarian community has welcomed the ceasefire agreed in the Occupied Palestinian Territory and Israel but warned that the destruction in Gaza will take years, if not decades, to fix.