Jerusalem: Increased Israeli airstrikes are devastating parts of the Gaza Strip, jeopardizing relief operations and leaving neighbourhoods in shambles. A strike in the Nusseirat refugee camp on Wednesday killed several family members of one of Al Jazeera TV’s chief correspondents, Wael Dahdouh. Strikes elsewhere destroyed homes and businesses and left many digging through the debris. … Read more
The first aid delivery into the besieged Gaza Strip via the Rafah border crossing with Egypt should take place “in the next day or so”, the United Nations said Friday. “We are in deep and advanced negotiations with all relevant sides to ensure that an aid operation in Gaza starts as quickly as possible… a … Read more
Nearly five million people in India were internally displaced due to climate change and disasters in 2021, the United Nations has said in a report. The annual Global Trends Report by the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) highlighted that globally 100 million people were forced to flee their homes last year due to violence, human rights … Read more
The United Nation‘s migration agency said 75 migrants drowned in the Mediterranean Sea north of Libya earlier this week as they attempted to reach Italy by boat. The International Organization for Migration reported the latest tragedy in a tweet on Saturday, attributing the information to 15 survivors who were rescued by fishermen and brought to … Read more
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday questioned for how long will India, the world’s largest democracy and home to 1.3 billion people, be kept out of the decision-making structures of the United Nations, asserting that reform in the responses, processes and in the very character of the global body is the “need of the hour.” … Read more
NEW DELHI: India on Wednesday lodged a formal complaint with the UN following Pakistan’s Permanent Representative to UN (New York), Munir Akram’s claim on Twitter that he presented a statement at the Security Council on a day the UN’s highest body was not open to non-members. ET had first reported on Tuesday that in a … Read more