UN relief chief welcomes limited Gaza aid resumption – but it’s a ‘drop in...
Tom Fletcher said in a statement on Monday that nine UN trucks were cleared to enter the southern Kerem Shalom crossing earlier in the...
‘Children are now freezing to death’: harrowing updates from Gaza
Tragically in the last month alone, eight newborns have died of hypothermia and 74 children have already died amid the brutal conditions of winter...
‘Repeated bouts of violence’ put Syria rebuilding at risk: Independent rights investigator
In December 2024, the Bashar Al-Assad regime was toppled by a coalition of opposition groups, led by the Hay'at Tahrir al-Sham militia, leading to...
Gaza: ‘Unbearable’ suffering continues, UN official tells Security Council
Briefing ambassadors in the Security Council, Assistant Secretary-General for the Middle East Khaled Khiari said more than 1,000 Palestinians had been killed since mid-June...
Gaza: Guterres calls on Israel to ensure life-saving aid reaches civilians
Speaking to journalists at UN Headquarters, António Guterres also repeated his call for a renewed ceasefire between Israel and Hamas, and the release of...
Force will not secure Middle East peace: UN General Assembly President
Addressing the 193-member Assembly, President Philémon Yang reiterated the importance of the two-State solution, calling it the only path to lasting peace. “After more...
‘Humanitarian work, a moral obligation’: Retired doctor returns to face the ‘silent threat’ in...
After a successful career that lasted 43 years, during which he worked in Saudi Arabia, for the Palestinian Ministry of Health and then the...
Why is the war between mathematics and physics drifting science in the wrong direction?
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Scientists have collected a lot of data on nature based on specific hypothesis, but because these data did not yield the...
How to raise rational children in our modern world
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In our modern secular world, and with the many things that kids are taught at school and over which parents have...
Gaza: Paramedic still missing after aid worker killings, Palestinian Red Crescent Society calls for...
Last Sunday, a joint PRCS and UN humanitarian coordination office (OCHA) mission uncovered a shallow grave in Rafah. The bodies of eight PRCS paramedics, six civil...
Syria’s humanitarian crisis: 16.5 million in need amid continuing conflict
Briefing journalists in New York from Damascus, the UN Humanitarian Coordinator for Syria, Adam Abdelmoula, explained that the country remains at a critical juncture...
Al Jazeera ban must be lifted, rights experts urge Palestinian Authority
The development comes one week after a court in Ramallah in the occupied West Bank ordered the closure of several Al Jazeera websites. A...
Winter rains and aid convoy obstacles worsen ordeal for one million Gazans
In an update, the UN aid coordination office, OCHA, stressed that attacks on civilian infrastructure have not stopped, “particularly in North Gaza, where the...
Gaza: Four more hospitals shut amid ongoing Israeli offensive
“This brings the total functioning hospitals in Gaza to only 14…the situation at the remaining eight hospitals and one field hospital in the city...
UN rights office calls for end to Israel’s ‘illegal presence’ in the Occupied Palestinian...
The Palestinian co-director of the documentary, Basel Adra, delivered remarks to the UN Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People....
Can a turbulence breakthrough end the universe-origin struggle?
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For many centuries, turbulence has been viewed as one of the unsolved problems in science. Until today, many unanswered questions remain...
How Creationists can follow up with the critiques of Evolutionists, Atheists, and other Anti-Creationists...
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Undoubtedly, as far as the origin of the universe is concerned, a significant disagreement exists between creationists and anti-creationists. In short,...
Iran-Israel crisis: IAEA chief calls for access to damaged nuclear sites
Rafael Grossi, head of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), was addressing the agency’s Board of Governors, amid fresh reports of new Israeli missile...
US strikes on Iran’s nuclear sites ‘marks perilous turn’: Diplomacy must prevail, says Guterres
After ten days of airstrikes initiated by Israel aimed at crippling Iran’s nuclear programme which have led to deadly daily exchanges of missile fire...
West Bank security situation remains alarming, warn UN aid agencies
The violence has seen exchanges of fire between Israeli troops and Palestinian militants – and the use of bulldozers in refugee camps for the...
UN demands hostage release, urges protection and aid for Gaza civilians
Rosemary DiCarlo, Under-Secretary-General for Political Affairs, and Edem Wosornu, Director of Operations for humanitarian coordination wing, OCHA, were briefing ambassadors in the Security Council,...
Middle East: Gaza markets ‘in decay’ as starvation looms
In an alert, the World Food Programme (WFP) described markets “in decay” across the enclave. “Fresh foods, eggs, and meat barely exist and the...
Israel’s new laws banning UNRWA already taking effect
If implemented, the two new laws passed in October will simultaneously prohibit Israeli authorities from contacting UNRWA and ban the agency from operating in...
‘A fire no one can control’: UN warns of spiralling Iran-Israel war
In an address to the UN Security Council on Friday, Mr. Guterres made an urgent plea for de-escalation, calling the spiralling confrontation a defining...
