MIDDLE EAST CRISIS: Updates for 30 October from the UN and the region

Bread is handed out to people in Deir Al-Balah in the central part of the Gaza Strip.

MIDDLE EAST CRISIS: Updates for 30 October from the UN and the region

30 October 2024 Peace and Security

Live updates through the day featured the latest breaking news from UN Headquarters and the field, with human rights experts and top UN officials addressing the crisis roiling across the Middle East as conflict continues to grip Gaza and Lebanon. UN News app users can follow our live coverage here.

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UNRWA and partners completed the second round of the polio vaccination campaign in Gaza, but access to the north remains blocked for the final phase.

MIDDLE EAST CRISIS: Updates on UNRWA, Gaza and more

29 October 2024

Peace and Security

Our live coverage ranged from the Security Council and UN Headquarters to dispatches from across the Middle East as tensions escalated and the war on Gaza and Lebanon continued in the shadows of a new Israeli ban on UNRWA, the agency serving nearly six million Palestine refugees in the region. UN News app users can follow here.

The UN Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) is the largest aid aid agency in the Gaza Strip where it provides emergency and other assistance to vulnerable Palestinians.

UNRWA cannot be replaced, say UN top officials in response to Knesset ban

29 October 2024

Peace and Security

Top UN officials continued to line up on Tuesday to defend the irreplaceable role of the global body’s agency for Palestine refugees, UNRWA, insisting that if implemented, the Israeli parliament’s decision to ban it would only deepen suffering in Gaza.