The passage of time and a severe shortage of heavy equipment have made the search and recovery operations increasingly difficult and complex, those working on this mission told UN News.In one of Gaza City’s neighborhoods, a piece of heavy machinery continues to remove the rubble of a...
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“I hope my children’s future will be brighter than our present,” said Mayyada, who is originally from Jabalia refugee camp in Gaza and has lost count of the number of times her family has been forced to move during the Israel-Hamas war that started in October 2023.Forced to flee their...
The US said it had struck around 140 targets on Saturday in response to the Iranian military striking a vessel which was navigating through the international waterway.Tehran reportedly launched a series of attacks targeting a US base in Jordan on Sunday, while the United Arab Emirates...
On the heels of the UN Secretary-General’s call on Sunday for further US-Iran negotiations, the Council of the International...
“We are gravely concerned by the latest attacks,” an IMO spokesperson said, adding that the agency is urgently working with authorities to confirm the circumstances.“IMO wholly condemns these attacks. The cycle of escalation must end.”The maritime agency has been working with p...
The fighting has broken an interim truce established under a Memorandum of Understanding signed by the two countries in June. The deal sought to end hostilities that erupted in late February following US-Israeli strikes on Iran and counter attacks by Tehran across the Gulf region.
Extreme weather forecasts are expected to pummel roads, railways, waterways, ports and airports between 2051 and 2080, according to the Assessment of Climate Change Impacts and Adaptation for Inland Transport: Towards climate resilient transport systems, published by the UN Economic Commissi...
According to reports, at least 18 people died in the capital, where densely populated residential areas sustained significant damage and several neighbourhoods had to be evacuated.“Search and rescue operations are ongoing to save people trapped beneath the rubble of collapsed resident...
“The battlespace has become a lot deeper, a lot wider and a lot more lethal,” Paul Heslop, Senior Mine Action Adviser in Ukraine with the UN Mine Action Service UNMAS, told UN News in a recent interview.Unlike t...
The missile and drone attacks, which heavily damaged apartment buildings and other civilian infrastructure, came just four days after another Russian attack that killed at least 30 civilians in Kyiv.“As I visit the sites of the strikes to express solidarity, it is unbearable to witnes...