News in Brief

• UN rights chief says horrified by Sudan escalation as famine draws nearer
• WHO: antimicrobial resistance an increasingly worrying threat
• Ukraine’s civilians facing daily drone and glider bomb attacks: IOM

• Guterres repeats call to Israel to halt Rafah assault as aid stocks dwindle 
• Global temperature record streak continues: WMO
• Türk welcomes 20-year jail sentence for Gambian ex-minister for crimes against humanity

• Gaza: underweight babies, heavy fighting and more displacement
• Sudan alert as civilians remain trapped in war zone
• Saudi Arabia violated rights of religious scholar, UN rights experts warn

• 450,000 Gazans now uprooted from Rafah as Israeli bombardment continues
• Ukraine: UN rights office expresses deep concern over Russia’s eastern offensive 
• Afghanistan flood disaster is not an anomaly, warns UN World Food Programme

• Rafah exodus reaches 360,000 as UN issues $2.8 billion aid appeal for Gaza, West Bank
• Ukraine: aid teams warn as Russian offensive in Kharkiv heightens displacement fears
• Countless lives at stake in Sudan’s El Fasher, warn UN aid teams

• Gaza: As exodus from Rafah continues, ceasefire calls grow 
• Myanmar spike in fighting fuels humanitarian emergency: OCHA  
• Belarus probe finds torture of detainees is systematic: rights experts

• Gaza: 80,000 flee Rafah amid Israeli military escalation fears, say UN humanitarians 
• Former Guantanamo Bay detainee faces re-victimisation in Algeria, right experts warn 
• Early data on vaccine ‘patches’ is welcome news in battle against measles: WHO 

A vast array of weaponry has been used in the last seven months of conflict in Gaza, so much so that UN mine action experts say that land potentially contaminated with unexploded ordnance will take years to make safe.

Patrick McCabe is a UN Mine Action Service (UNMAS) veteran whose job is to help civilians move around Gaza as safely as possible, now and when the fighting ends.

He spoke to UN News’s Daniel Johnson, about what he’d seen in the shattered enclave so far.

• Gaza: No aid is coming through the south, confirms @UNRWA 
• Unprecedented flooding displaces hundreds of thousands across east Africa: IOM
• No respite in sight for Brazil suffering flood emergency: WMO

• Uncertainty in Gaza amplified by closure of key border crossings
• Russia: UN rights chief troubled by increasing crackdown on journalists
• DRC: more than 80,000 newly displaced people amid new fighting in Kivu