Category: HUMANITARIAN CRISIS

At least 92 people killed in overnight Israeli attacks in Rafah

MONITORING (SW) – Israeli warplanes bombed a kindergarten where displaced people were sheltering east of Rafah at dawn on Sunday, the Wafa news agency reported.

UN estimates 17,000 Gaza children left unaccompanied amid Israel’s war

MONITORING (SW) – At least 17,000 children in the Gaza Strip have been left unaccompanied or separated from their families nearly four months into Israel’s assault on the enclave, the United Nations children’s agency estimates.

All states must stop funding Israel’s military – South Africa

MONITORING (SW) – All states have an obligation to stop funding and facilitating Israel’s military actions in Gaza after the World Court made clear those actions could be genocidal, South Africa’s foreign minister said on Wednesday.

Gaza war is the deadliest for journalists – CPJ

MONITORING (SW) – The head of the Committee to Protect Journalists, Judy Ginsburg, has told Al Jazeera that the body has called on Israel to investigate accusations of crimes against journalists in the Gaza Strip.

UN chief calls on countries to resume funding Gaza aid agency after allegations of militant ties

MONITORING (SW) – The secretary-general of the United Nations on Sunday called on countries to continue funding the main agency providing aid in Gaza after several of its employees were accused of taking part in the Hamas attack on Israel that ignited the war four months ago.

UN chief hopes Israel will “duly comply” with ICJ ruling on Gaza

MONITORING (SW) – The UN chief Antonio Guterres said he hopes Israel will “duly comply” with the ruling from the International Court of Justice ordering it to take action to prevent acts of genocide being carried out in war-torn Gaza.

At least 18 killed in wave of Russian missile attacks on Ukraine

MONITORING (SW) – At least 18 people have been killed and more than 130 injured after Russia hit Ukraine’s biggest cities with waves of missiles.

Russia unleashes mass air strikes on Ukraine

MONITORING (SW) – Russian missile attacks have targeted the Ukrainian cities Kyiv and Kharkiv, killing several people, wounding dozens and damaging residential buildings, officials say.

Gaza war: Israel loses 24 soldiers in worst single-day loss

MONITORING (SW) – Twenty-four Israeli soldiers were killed in Israel’s worst day of losses in Gaza, the military said on Tuesday while also claiming to have encircled southern Gaza’s main city and killed dozens of Palestinian fighters in a major ground assault of the new year.

Israeli forces storm hospital as Khan Younis hit by bloodiest fighting of 2024

MONITORING (SW) – Israeli forces, advancing deep into western Khan Younis in Gaza’s bloodiest fighting so far in January, stormed one hospital and put another under siege on Monday, cutting off the wounded from trauma care, Palestinian officials said.

Israeli drones attack hospital in southern Gaza, Palestinian Red Crescent says

MONITORING (SW) – The Palestinian Red Crescent accused Israel of firing on Friday at a hospital in Khan Younis, as a major advance in the main city in the southern Gaza Strip threatened the few healthcare facilities still open.