French UN ambassador raises risk of humanitarian catastrophe if government launches assault on rebel-held stronghold France has warned that escalating violence in Syria’s northwestern Idlib province will lead to a new humanitarian catastrophe as thousands [ More … ]
United Nations humanitarian organizations in the occupied Palestinian territory appealed on Monday for funding to address the “spiraling” situation in the besieged Gaza Strip. According to a statement published by the UN Office for the [ More … ]
Turkey has prepared an aid cargo to ship to Yemen, where thousands of civilians lost their lives due to cholera, and thousands wait for medicine for treatment. Nearly 3 million people who were displaced due [ More … ]
As the Gaza Strip marked the ten-year anniversary of Israel’s siege of the small Palestinian enclave on Thursday, the humanitarian situation has continued to alarm rights groups, which have denounced the “inhuman conditions unparalleled in [ More … ]
A cholera outbreak in war-torn Yemen has killed 115 people and left 8,500 ill as hospitals struggle to cope with an influx of patients. A cholera outbreak in war-torn Yemen has killed 115 people and [ More … ]
BY: MEVLÜT ÇAVUŞOĞLU* The message of the Turkish government’s enterprising and humanitarian foreign policy is that Turkey is a partner that sees beyond the current headlines and looks forward to a future when Africa, including [ More … ]
Kuwait has approved a $100 million grant for Iraq to support humanitarian and reconstruction projects in areas retaken from Daesh militants, an Iraqi official said on Tuesday. The grant is the first Kuwaiti financial assistance [ More … ]
Ironically enough, almost the same countries which had supported Egypt’s military coup against the country’s legitimate government and its first democratically elected President Mohamed Morsi, launched in 2015 Operation Decisive Storm against the Houthi militants in [ More … ]
The Egyptian authorities reopened on Wednesday the Rafah border-crossing on both sides so as to allow humanitarian cases’ access out of and into the blockaded Gaza Strip, just a few days following the crossing’s opening [ More … ]
Egyptian authorities Saturday opened the Rafah crossing between the besieged Gaza Strip and Egypt for two days in both directions for “humanitarian cases”. According to the Palestinian authority for crossings and borders, the crossing is [ More … ]
Robert Piper, the UN’s humanitarian coordinator for the Israeli-occupied Palestinian territories, has described current living conditions in the Gaza Strip — which continues to groan under a decade-long Israeli/Egyptian blockade — as “grim”, Anadolu Agency [ More … ]
Jets believed to be Russian struck a refugee camp along Jordan’s northeastern border with Syria on Tuesday, killing at least 10 people and injuring scores, Reuters reported. At least 20 Syrians, who were wounded in airstrikes [ More … ]
Jordan has allowed the entry of food and water to refugees stranded across Jordan’s border with Syria in the no-man’s-land, an official source said, The Jordan Times reported. The opening of borders for aid delivery [ More … ]
Last week, the Turkish aid ship “Lady Leyla” docked in Israel’s port of Ashdod carrying 11,000 tons of humanitarian aid — including food, clothing and toys — destined for Gaza Around 19 trucks carrying Turkish [ More … ]
The aid — consisting of flour, rice, sugar, food packages and toys — arrived in the Israeli port of Ashdod aboard the Lady Leyla on Sunday afternoon, Anadolu Agency reported. Preparations have been made to [ More … ]
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