The Israeli airstrikes on Yemen’s Sanaa International Airport on May 6 and May 28, 2025, were apparently unlawful indiscriminate or disproportionate attacks on civilian objects and should be investigated as war crimes, Human Rights Watch said today.
Three months since Israel tightened its total siege of Gaza, dozens of Palestinian children, babies and elderly people have starved to death and desperate parents are being shot and killed as they try to get food aid at new militarised distribution sites.
Between 29 and 30 May 2025, DTM field teams estimated that 2,715 households were displaced from Al Khiwai town of Al Khiwai locality, West Kordofan due to clashes between the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF).
Between 19 and 28 May 2025, DTM field teams estimated that 1,946 households were displaced from Al Salha area in Um Durman locality, Khartoum due to clashes between the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF).
As of April 2025, 15 Flow Monitoring Points (FMPs) were operational, monitoring internal movements and cross-border flows with neighboring countries, including Uganda (UGA), the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Sudan (SDN), Ethiopia (ETH), Kenya (KEN), and the Central African Republic (CAR).
The delivery of humanitarian aid must be safely accessible and based on need, said Save the Children amid mounting concerns over reports of chaos and killing in Gaza at militarised zones to which civilians were forced to travel to collect desperately needed supplies.
Authorities in the occupied Gaza Strip must respect the right to peaceful assembly and freedom of expression and cease the ongoing repression of protesters, Amnesty International said today.
Women and girls in Sudan’s Darfur region are at near-constant risk of sexual violence, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) warned today. The true scale of this crisis remains difficult to quantify, as services remain limited, and people face barriers in seeking treatment or speaking about their ordeal.
Between April and June 2025, 1.17 million people (21 percent of the population) are projected to face acute food insecurity, down from 1.65 million (30 percent) in March 2025.
The International Organization for Migration (IOM) has welcomed the recent decisions by the European Union and the United States to lift a significant portion of sanctions imposed on Syria.
On 23 May 2025, DTM field teams estimated that 565 households were displaced from Dibebad town in Al Quoz locality, South Kordofan due to clashes between the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF).
On 22 May 2025, Israel conducted a wave of aerial strikes across Lebanon, with a confirmed tally of 22 incidents. These operations spanned the governorates of Nabatieh, South Lebanon, and the Bekaa, targeting both elevated terrain and semi-urban communities.
Amid escalating humanitarian needs driven by conflict, flooding, acute food insecurity and cholera outbreaks, the United Nations Central Emergency Response Fund (CERF) has urgently allocated US$10 million to support life-saving humanitarian assistance for more than 270,000 people in South Sudan.
Israel’s intensified military operations continue to threaten an already weakened health system, amidst worsening mass population displacement and acute shortages of food, water, medical supplies, fuel and shelter.
This research was conducted prior to the collapse of the former Government of Syria (GoS) on 8 December 2024 and the emergence of the transitional government and thus, some security-related barriers to civil documents, such as security risks tied to the former government (including fears of mandatory service or arrest if found with civil documents issued by the former Syrian Salvation Government-SSG) no longer remain.
By 15 May 2025, around 156,000 Syrians returned to Syria from or via Lebanon. Given the significant changes in the Syria context, UNHCR, in close collaboration with the authorities, began designing programmes to support refugees who express an interest in returning, including “Go and See” visits.
A US air strike on a migrant detention centre in Sa’ada, north-western Yemen on 28 April killed and injured dozens of migrants and must be investigated as a violation of international humanitarian law, said Amnesty International today, amid reports that hundreds of people have been killed and injured as a result of US air strikes on Yemen since March 2025.
Israel has intensified its genocidal campaign in Gaza through one of the most extensive and lethal assaults since the beginning of its offensive, committing massacres and adopting a scorched-earth policy involving the total destruction of remaining neighbourhoods and infrastructure.
Seven weeks on, the impacts of the 28 March earthquakes in central Myanmar continue to drive significant humanitarian needs, both for immediate relief and early recovery.
As of 15 May 2025, UNHCR estimates that over half a million – 501,126 – Syrians have crossed back to Syria via neighboring countries since 8 December 2024. This brings up the total of 861,966 Syrian individuals that have returned to Syria since the beginning of 2024.
