UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The United Nations’ humanitarian chief has defended using the term “genocide” to describe what aid workers are trying to prevent in Gaza, saying the world should not make the ...

UN emergency relief coordinator Tom Fletcher on Wednesday urged the UN Security Council to assess whether Israel is meeting its obligations in Gaza, warning the humanitarian situation had become ...

A heated debate was sparked after the United Nations humanitarian chief Tom Fletcher said that 14,000 babies in Gaza would die within 48 hours unless aid reached them. Fletcher cited the figure during ...

Israel's war in Gaza has killed tens of thousands of people and left many of the enclave's schools, hospitals and residential neighborhoods reduced to rubble — Bashar TALEB United Nations relief chief ...

United Nations aid chief Tom Fletcher on Tuesday criticized an Israel-initiated and U.S.-backed humanitarian aid distribution plan for Gaza as a “fig leaf for further violence and displacement” of ...

Israel accuses UN aid chief of being 'deeply irresponsible' No aid has entered Gaza since March 2 UN says 9,000 trucks, half with food, ready to enter Gaza UNITED NATIONS, May 16 (Reuters) - Israel on ...

At the United Nations, U.N. Emergency Relief Coordinator Tom Fletcher called on world leaders to “prevent genocide” in Gaza. He slammed Israel’s 10-week blockade, which has resulted in more than half ...

Fletcher calls for thousands of aid trucks to enter Gaza weekly to ease humanitarian disaster Israel says 600 aid trucks granted access to territory under US-brokered truce accord Fletcher urges NGO ...

Israel appears set to ban almost 40 international humanitarian organisations from operating in Gaza and the West Bank amid a critical humanitarian crisis in the middle of winter. In the worst-case ...

The funding will be channeled through a top U.N. official, who has made repeated misstatements about the Israel-Hamas war. The post US pledges $2 billion in UN aid, demands reforms ...

Tom Fletcher, the United Nations under-secretary-general for humanitarian affairs and emergency relief coordinator, addresses by video call a UN Security Council meeting on Gaza and the Middle East — ...