The following briefing was delivered by Tom Fletcher, Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator, on 13 May 2025. The full text is included below the video. Mr. President, Members of the Council, Briefing you again on this subject … Continue reading →
Israel has not allowed any aid to be delivered to Gaza since 2 March 2025 and no electricity shortly after. Food, water and medicine are running out, leaving thousands of Palestinians without basic necessities. The United Nations says people face … Continue reading →
On 30 March UN Emergency Relief Coordinator Tom Fletcher wrote on X: 15 emergency & aid workers in Gaza – from @PalestineRCS, Palestinian Civil Defense and UN – were found buried by their wrecked & well-marked vehicles. Our condolences to … Continue reading →
The following interview was broadcast on BBC Radio 4 on 28 January 2025, the day before an Israeli law came into force banning UNRWA, the UN relief agency, from operating in Gaza, a Palestinian territory which Israel illegally occupies. Evan … Continue reading →
Holocaust Memorial Day (HMD) on January 27 2025 marked the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the largest Nazi concentration camp complex at Auschwitz-Birkenau by Russian troops. Around a million people were killed there as the Nazis tried to exterminate … Continue reading →
The following statement is based on one issued by the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs on 22 November 2024. It was updated on 1 December with data from a new statement from Muhannad Hadi, Humanitarian Coordinator for … Continue reading →
A report published by Human Rights Watch, a group that investigates abuses of human rights in almost 100 countries, has published a report “Hopeless, Starving, and Besieged’: Israel’s Forced Displacement of Palestinians in Gaza” that examines how Israeli authorities’ conduct … Continue reading →
On 28 September 2024 Richard Caplan, Professor of International Relations from the Department of Politics and International Relations at Oxford University, delivered a presentation to Warwick District United Nations Association entitled A Case for the UN Transitional Authority for Gaza? … Continue reading →
On 21 November 2024, Pre-Trial Chamber I of the International Criminal Court (ICC) issued warrants of arrest for Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, former Israeli defence minister Yoav Gallant and Hamas military leader Mohammed Deif. The arrest warrants are classified … Continue reading →
On 12 November 2024, UK Professor Nizam Mamode described to the UK Government’s International Development Committee his heart-rending observations of the frequent and deliberate murder of women and children, some as young as three, by Israeli drones in Southern Gaza … Continue reading →