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Khan Younis lies in ruins following the withdrawal of Israeli forces.
© UNOCHA/Themba Linden

News in Brief 15 April 2024

News in Brief
  • Gaza: Rights experts condemn AI role in destruction by Israeli military
  • Sudan crisis in international spotlight one year since war began
  • Grower taskforce mulls action to tackle spike in plant pests
Audio Duration
3'59"
A shredded UN flag flies over a destroyed school building in Khan Younis.
© UNOCHA/Themba Linden

News in Brief 12 April 2024

News in Brief
  • Gaza: No improvement in aid access to north, insists senior UN aid official 
  • Sudan facing looming famine, warn humanitarians
  • Ukraine war leaves 3.3 million in dire need on frontlines: IOM 
Audio Duration
4'18"
Destruction of a residential block in the Al-Shaboura neighborhood in the city of Rafah, south of the Gaza Strip
UN News/Ziad Taleb

News in Brief 8 April 2024

News in Brief
  • Palestine UN membership in spotlight amid Rafah invasion fears 
  • Attacks on Ukrainian nuclear facilities ‘must cease immediately’: UN atomic watchdog
  • Healthcare ‘inaccessible’ for displaced people, warns UN migration agency 
Audio Duration
4'2"
UN Secretary-General António Guterres briefs the media outside the Security Council on the situation in Gaza.
UN Photo/Eskinder Debebe

News in Brief 5 April 2024

News in Brief
  • Israel must allow ‘quantum leap’ in aid delivery UN chief urges, calling for change in military strategy
  • Sudan: UN food agency convoy reaches Darfurs for first time in months
  • Global deployment of rapid diagnostic tests to boost fight against cholera
Audio
4'34"
A child follows/watches the recovering of bodies from under the rubble of a house in the Al-Nasr neighborhood, east of the city of Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip.
UN News/Ziad Taleb

News in Brief 4 April 2024

News in Brief
  • Ukraine: Ambulance teams at 3 times greater risk of death and injury
  • Human Rights Council resolution demands further Iran violations probe
  • More than 700 attacks by Israeli settlers in occupied West Bank
Audio
3'4"
Footage of destruction of Al-Shifa hospital in Gaza, following the end of the latest Israeli siege. The World Health Organization (WHO) reiterated that hospitals must be respected and protected; they must not be used as battlefields.
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News in Brief 2 April 2024

News in Brief
  • Gaza: health system ‘barely surviving’ warns UN health agency chief
  • Ukrainians suffer Russia-imposed ‘violence, intimidation, and coercion’, Türk tells Human Rights Council 
  • Malawi drought affects nearly two million farming families 
Audio
3'40"