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OctOCHA warns that air strikes and shelling are continuing across the Gaza Strip, with scores of people reportedly killed or injured. Palestinian rocket fire towards Israel was also reported today.In Gaza, the Ministry of Health says that since October 2023, fatalities have topped 66,000 people.OCHA stresses once again that civilians must never be a target. Under international humanitarian law, they must be protected.Meanwhile, women and children continue to bear the brunt of starvation and malnutrition in Gaza. Yesterday, UNICEF said...
Statement on Gaza by Tom Fletcher, Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief CoordinatorNew York, 3 October 2025President Trump’s Gaza initiative opens a window of opportunity. It offers both a chance for Palestinians to receive life-saving aid at the scale urgently needed, and to bring the hostages home.We are ready and eager to act.We have some 170,000 metric tons of food, medicine, shelter and other desperately needed supplies poised to enter Gaza from across the region.Our plan is not a...
Thank you, Claire [Doole, moderator] and welcome everybody. Friends and colleagues, we are here as the humanitarian movement to launch the Global Humanitarian Overview for 2025 – my first time as Emergency Relief Coordinator.I want to start today by recognizing your extraordinary work this year. In 2024, you reached 116 million people with our humanitarian support and solidarity. And you did this in the face of overwhelming odds – because you know better than me that we are overstretched, underfunded,...
