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A senior official with the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has appealed for wider and safer humanitarian access in Gaza, where malnourished babies are slowly dying while the world watches.

“The child deaths we feared are here,” Adele Khodr, UNICEF Regional Director for the Middle East and North Africa, said in a statement issued on Sunday.

The UN Security Council has underscored the need to protect civilians in Gaza in the wake of the deadly incident at an aid convoy on Thursday. 

Members issued a statement on Saturday expressing their deep concern over reports that "more than 100 individuals lost their lives, with several hundred others sustaining injuries, including gunshot wounds...in an incident involving Israeli forces at a large gathering surrounding a humanitarian assistance convoy southwest of Gaza City."

They noted that an Israeli investigation is underway.

On February 27, 2024, UNIC Beirut organized, at the UN-House in Beirut, briefing sessions to a group of Grade 12 students from the “React” club at Jesus and Mary school in Rabweh, northeastern Beirut to learn more about the implementation of Agenda 2030 in Lebanon, particularly SDGs 5 and 16.

The United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat) has begun physical rehabilitation works on an initial batch of four residential buildings of heritage value that were severely damaged by the Beirut Port explosion.

Walking through the narrow streets of Shalfeh, a vulnerable urban community in the Abu Samra neighbourhood in Lebanon’s northern city of Tripoli, where dreams of a better life seem distant, you reach a green oasis amid urban chaos.

An all-out Israeli offensive on Rafah would spell the end for UN-led humanitarian relief to the people of Gaza, UN Secretary-General António Guterres warned on Monday, in a wide-ranging call to the international community to fulfil its “primary responsibility” of promoting and protecting human rights everywhere and for everyone.

The Security Council met on Thursday at UN Headquarters in New York on the situation in the Gaza Strip, wracked by months of unrelenting war and tensions spilling into the wider Middle East region, with no solutions on the horizon to stop the fighting.

Tor Wennesland, UN Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process, told ambassadors that “there is still no end in sight” as the war approaches its 140-day mark.

While many economies in the Arab States region continue their post-pandemic recovery, recovery of the labour market lags behind, requiring concerted efforts to intensify diversification and to create

Under the patronage and in the presence of Lebanese Minister of Social Affairs, Dr. Hector Al-Hajjar, UN-Habitat marked the successful completion of the project "Improving planning capacities for social and economic local development” funded by the Italian Agency for Development Cooperation, marking a significant milestone in the socioeconomic development journey of local authorities.

On February 6, 2024, the UN-House in Beirut opened its doors to a group of Grade 10 students from Collège des Saints-Cœurs Kfarhbab (SSCC-Kfarhbab), all participants in the Model United Nations (MUN) program. The visit offered them a unique peek into the intricate universe of international diplomacy, negotiations, and conflict resolution.