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Five Gazan patients evacuated via newly-opened Rafah crossing in first since 2025

"On the second of February, WHO and partners supported the medical evacuation of five patients and seven companions to Egypt via the Rafah crossing," said WHO spokesperson Christian Lindmeier.

A woman carrying a child boards a bus as Palestinians, including war-wounded and patients, accompanied by relatives, get ready to leave Gaza for treatment abroad through the Rafah border crossing between Gaza and Egypt , in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip, February 2, 2026.
 Palestinians view the damage inside a school sheltering displaced people after it was hit by an Israeli strike, amid the Israel-Hamas conflict, at Beach refugee camp in Gaza City, September 22, 2024.

School kits to be delivered in Gaza after more than two years of war

 PALESTINIANS GATHER to receive food in the northern Gaza Strip this week, as residents are said to be facing crisis levels of hunger.

'Shockingly high' number of Gaza children still acutely malnourished after truce, UN says

Palestinian children receive vaccinations from UNICEF on November 20, 2025

Gaza humanitarian efforts reach key milestone as UNICEF vaccinates some 13,000 children


Yemeni people continue to bear burden of weaponization of Houthis - opinion

The Houthis are a fundamentalist Shia group. The ex-president, Saleh, although a Sunni Muslim, decided to collaborate with them in a bid to return to power.

 HOUTHI MILITARY spokesman Yahya Saree delivers a statement during a demonstration in solidarity with the Palestinians in Gaza, in Sanaa, Yemen, earlier this month. The writer asks: ‘The Houthis are still acting on Iran’s behalf, but frankly, how much are they really contributing to Iran?’

Silence of 'human rights' NGOs on Bibas babies is complicity with Hamas agenda - comment

Intentional or not, the human rights regime has facilitated the Hamas agenda and hindered those that seek to stop them.

 Pacifiers at Hostage square in Tel Aviv, on the day of the release of the bodies of four Israeli hostages from Hamas captivity, February 20, 2025.

London school asks students to fast for Gaza

Tower Hamlets school faces criticism over planned "fast for Gaza" to raise money for UNICEF as Jewish families raise concerns about their children's safety in the school.

 An illustrative image of a class in an elementary school.

Child recruitment in Haitian gangs soars 70% amid rising violence and poverty - UNICEF

The Associated Press writes that the increase in child members is related to the worsening of poverty in the country, increasing violence, and political instability.

 People carry belongings as residents flee the neighborhood of Nazon due to gang violence, in Port-au-Prince, Haiti November 14, 2024.

Second polio campaign in Gaza completed, vaccination rate over 90% for children - COGAT

COGAT and aid organizations achieve 90%+ child vaccination rate in Gaza, delivering over 1.1 million polio shots during humanitarian pauses across north, central, and southern regions.

Trucks containing vials of polio vaccine cross into the Gaza Strip. August 25, 2024.

North Gaza 'apocalyptic,' everyone at 'imminent risk' of death, warns UN

They urged all parties fighting in Gaza to protect civilians and called on Israel to "ceases its assault on Gaza and on the humanitarians trying to help."

 A UNITED Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) sign lies on the ground at the Kerem Shalom crossing into Gaza earlier this year.

One in eight girls and women raped or sexually assaulted before age 18, UNICEF says

"The scale of this human rights violation is overwhelming, and it's been hard to fully grasp because of stigma, challenges in measurement, and limited investment in data collection."

 A woman holds a placard reading: "Victim we believe you rapist we see you", during a silent march to support Gisele Pelicot, who has allegedly been drugged and raped by men solicited by her husband Dominique Pelicot at their home, and other female victims of violence, France, October 5, 2024.

Gaza shop creates fake UNICEF stickers for Palestinian vehicles

The store has videos showing them turning a plain white van into a Palestinian Red Crescent ambulance.

 Gaza shop 'World of Stickers' creates fake UNICEF logos for cars

53 children and youths killed, 36 taken hostage, 651 injured in Israel-Hamas war

Justice Minister Yariv Levin urged CRC and UNICEF to "address the harm caused to Israeli children" and to demand the release of all hostages.

 Blindfolded large teddy bears with red paint on them depicting blood and photographs of Israeli children held hostage by Hamas terrorists in Gaza since the October 7 massacre, in Tel Aviv, November 13, 2023.

Pakistan’s first human milk bank temporarily shuts down after facing religious backlash

Pakistan’s first human milk bank in Karachi suspended operations after religious scholars deemed it haram. The Health Ministry is seeking further guidance from the Council of Islamic Ideology.

 A nurse examines bottles of breast milk donated by nursing mothers at the human milk bank at the San Juan de Dios hospital in Guatemala City, Guatemala, August 1, 2016.