Therapeutic Food Shortage Puts African Children at Risk of Starvation, U.N. Agency Says
Supplies of a highly nutritious treatment are running out, according to UNICEF.
By Apoorva Mandavilli
Supplies of a highly nutritious treatment are running out, according to UNICEF.
By Apoorva Mandavilli
Israel and Hamas have agreed to brief pauses in fighting so that humanitarian workers can begin an inoculation campaign.
By Ephrat Livni
The World Health Organization’s top representative in Gaza said Israel agreed to temporarily pause its military operations in designated areas during the hours vaccines would be administered to children.
By The Associated Press
UNICEF is pushing for a pause in the fighting to allow health workers to get two doses to every child, after Gaza recorded its first polio case in 25 years.
By Hiba Yazbek
With no resumption of deliveries in sight, officials fear the territory’s threadbare humanitarian relief effort could collapse altogether.
By Vivian Yee, Ronen Bergman and Raja Abdulrahim
Humanitarian workers are raising concerns over the closure of the Rafah and Kerem Shalom crossings, halting vital aid as over 100,000 people have fled the area to escape the shelling by the Israel’s military.
By UNTV via Reuters
The company has told countries that it can supply only 18.8 million of the 29.6 million doses it was contracted to deliver this year.
By Stephanie Nolen
“Gaza right now is one of the most dangerous places in the world to be a humanitarian worker,” a spokeswoman for Save the Children said after a strike killed World Central Kitchen workers.
By John Yoon
The 200 tons of food provided by a celebrity chef’s charity arrived as UNICEF said rising numbers of children in Gaza were facing food deprivation.
By Monika Pronczuk, Gaya Gupta and Nicholas Fandos
Among his accomplishments in a four-decade career in public health, he helped pioneer programs providing bed nets in Africa.
By Michael S. Rosenwald
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