Hamas said that seven more hostages seized during its unprecedented attack on southern Israel on October 7 had died because of Israeli military operations in Gaza. Meanwhile, four more children have died of "malnutrition and dehydration" in war-torn Gaza, the Hamas-ruled territory's health ministry said, the latest such reported deaths...

DUBAI, UAE- As Houthi attacks roil the Red Sea and Western air raids target the rebels, moves to end Yemen's long-running war are at a standstill, threatening further woe for a country on its knees. As recently as December, painstaking negotiations were gaining ground and the United Nations said the warring...

Internet services in the Gaza Strip have been constantly disrupted throughout the war, with telecom firms blaming Israel's bombardment of the besieged territory for the outages. The "near-total telecoms blackout" has now lasted for 168 hours, NetBlocks posted on X.

The situation in Gaza is a humanitarian catastrophe, with hospitals like Al-Shifa and Al-Sahaba facing dire shortages of medical supplies and staff, and the population grappling with acute hunger and the threat of famine, adds the World Health Organization Director-General.

The Israeli army said Wednesday that "ground, aerial and naval operations were carried out on dozens of terrorists and terrorist infrastructure" on military command and control centers in Khan Yunis. Israel's ensuing military campaign in Gaza has so far killed at least 20,000 people, the majority of them children and...

Armored personnel carriers and bulldozers were also seen as Israel expanded its operations against Hamas in response to the Palestinian group's deadly October 7 attack on southern Israel. Amin Abu Hawli, 59, said the Israeli vehicles were "2 kilometers inside" the Palestinian territory in the village of Al-Qarara near Khan...

Eleven ambulances, three coaches and a flatbed were delivered to Al-Shifa hospital, which had seen heavy fighting in recent days, "to assist with evacuations," the UN said. The day prior, when a temporary truce between Israel and Hamas began in order to facilitate the hostage exchange, a total of 137...

Jerusalem -  Plans to release another group of Israeli hostages in exchange for Palestinian prisoners suffered a setback on Saturday, the second day of a four-day truce after seven weeks of war. On Friday evening the Palestinian group freed 13 Israelis, along with an unexpected 10 Thais and one Filipino,...

Geneva, Switzerland - At least 30% of the housing sector in the Gaza Strip has been either destroyed or rendered uninhabitable, while hospitals are overwhelmed with patients, according to the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), reported by the Russian news agency Tass. "Since 7 October, at...

By late Wednesday, the number of displaced people in Gaza had risen by an additional 75,000 people from the figure given 24 hours earlier, reaching 338,934, it said. The announcement came as Israel pounded Hamas targets in the Gaza Strip -- a densely populated enclave of 2.3 million people --...

While living and hygiene conditions can be dire even in official displacement camps, the situation in informal settlements is sometimes worse, with no semblance of organisation and little or no humanitarian assistance. Tanya Evans of the International Rescue Committee said such informal camps "can be considered the 'forgotten camps' of...

A letter this week from Syrian authorities allowing use of the border crossing between Turkey and Syria "contains two unacceptable conditions," according to a document sent to the UN Security Council from the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA). The 15 UN Security Council members had been trying...

The 10-truck convoy reach rebel-held Al-Nayrab in Idlib province from the direction of regime-held Saraqib, headed for storage facilities near the Turkish border. The last such convoy was in January. The trucks were covered with banners bearing the name and logo of the UN World Food Programme.

Some 5.5 million Chadians around a third of the landlocked central African country's population needed "urgent humanitarian assistance" last year, according to the United Nations.

According to the UN, if the war continued, there will be around 18 million Ukrainians that will be affected in humanitarian terms.

The spokesman of Saudi led coalition also said the facility was not on the OCHA no-target list.

The annual appeal by UN agencies and other humanitarian organisations said that providing aid to the 183 million most vulnerable people across 63 countries next year would require $41 billion.

78 percent of the country's population lives in poverty, higher than last year's figure of 55 percent.