At 2:45 am on Tuesday 13 May, An Israeli airstrike targeted one of the buildings of Nasser medical complex. According to the Ministry of Health, two people were killed and 12 were injured. MSF teams are doing a surgical intervention on two of the wounded.
The Syrian transitional government’s stringent application of registration and operational requirements on aid groups is hampering their ability to scale up operations, Human Rights Watch said today.
As of March 2025, 12.8 million people have been forcibly displaced, including over 8.8 million internally displaced persons (IDPs) and 3.7 million refugees, asylum seekers, and returnees who have crossed into neighboring countries.
OCHA access teams continue to work on strengthening joint analysis and advocacy for improved humanitarian access in northeast Syria. Building on the January access snapshots for Al-Hasakeh, Ar-Raqqa, and Deir-ez-Zor, partners aim to produce updated monthly snapshots and register incidents through OCHA’s new Access Monitoring and Reporting Framework.
Since 18 March 2025, Israeli forces have escalated bombardment from the air, land and sea across the Gaza Strip and expanded ground operations. This has resulted in hundreds of casualties, destruction of civilian infrastructure, and large-scale displacement.
The international medical humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) strongly condemns the deliberate bombing of its hospital in Old Fangak, South Sudan early this morning.
All WFP food stocks are depleted, which forced the closure of all WFP-supported bakeries, and cut off bread access for 800,000 people. Food parcels are fully exhausted, and the last remaining supplies have been delivered to hot meal kitchens, which are expected to run out within days.
The National Council for Entrepreneurship and Innovation in Lebanon (NCEILebanon) hosted a landmark seminar, on AI for a National Strategy in Lebanon, as an introduction to NCEILebanon AI Initiative
The event brought together government officials, academic leaders, and industry experts to lay the groundwork for Lebanon’s comprehensive national AI strategy.
Since the collapse of the ceasefire in Gaza on the night between 17 and 18 March 2025, intense military activities and hostilities have continued to escalate, resulting in hundreds of civilians killed and injured, further damage and destruction to civilian infrastructure, and new waves of forced displacement.
From April 6 onward, the Israeli military has demonstrably intensified operations across Gaza's eastern and southern edges, consolidating control over significant swaths of land. A marked increase in airstrikes, artillery fire, and demolitions in specific districts reveals a clear trend toward the systematic expansion of a security buffer zone.
Though the security situation has somewhat stabilized in urban areas, rural and suburban areas remain unpredictable, with occasional outbreaks of violence. The threat of escalatory or retaliatory actions continues to loom across the coastal region. In addition to the escalating violence in these areas, clashes and military activity persist in other parts of the country, including southern Syria.
Since the collapse of the ceasefire in Gaza on the night between 17 and 18 March, intense military activities and hostilities have continued, killing and injuring hundreds of people and further damaging and destroying what remains of civilian infrastructure, including hospitals.
The International Rescue Committee condemns the killing of two medical staff from our Palestinian partner, Juzoor for Health & Social Development, in an Israeli airstrike on Gaza City two days ago. The doctor and nurse were returning from work at an IRC-supported medical point where they were providing essential medical treatment.
Humanitarian operations have been stifled by a combination of expanded military activity, the Israeli government’s blockade on the entry of humanitarian aid and commercial supplies for more than a month, killing of aid workers and attacks on their premises, and severe movement restrictions within Gaza.
There must be an independent and impartial investigation into the circumstances in which at least 15 Palestinian medics and rescue workers, who went to southern Gaza for a rescue operation, were shot dead after Israeli forces opened fire on their vehicles, said Amnesty International today, reiterating calls for independent monitors to be granted immediate access to the occupied Gaza Strip.
To support humanitarian work in Syria in the aftermath of the fall of the Assad regime, Insecurity Insight is conducting ongoing social media monitoring to understand perceptions and key concerns around the aid response during a period of transition, with the aim of contributing to the development of aid agencies’ communication and security risk management strategies in response to community sentiment.
Since the start of 2025, 859 trucks carrying aid from seven UN agencies have crossed from Türkiye to Syria—more than eight times the number during the same period last year.
As of March 20, the situation along the Lebanese-Syrian border continues to evolve, centered on the town of Hawsh al-Sayyed Ali. Days of clashes and shelling led to casualties, displacement, and lingering tension, prompting Beirut and Damascus to undertake renewed diplomatic and military coordination.
In February, humanitarian partners in South Sudan faced 25 reported access challenges, including active hostilities among armed groups, bureaucratic impediments, and violence targeting humanitarian personnel, facilities, and assets.
