The Israeli-US food distribution scheme in Gaza, launched one month ago, is degrading Palestinians by design, forcing them to choose between starvation or risking their lives for minimal supplies. With over 500 people killed and nearly 4,000 wounded while seeking food, this scheme is slaughter masquerading as humanitarian aid and must be immediately dismantled.
June 2025 witnessed a pronounced intensification of Israeli military activity in Lebanon, characterized by an escalating use of airstrikes, drone warfare, and strategic signaling.
Children have been killed or injured in more than half of the fatal attacks at food distribution sites in Gaza since the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) began operating four weeks ago, said Save the Children.
Six months after the fall of Bashar al-Assad’s government in Syria, survivors of its brutal detention system, including the infamous Saydnaya military prison, are grappling with devastating physical and mental health consequences amid a critical lack of support, said Amnesty International.
After 20 months of conflict, the protection environment for children has almost collapsed, as ongoing hostilities, repeated displacement, and limited humanitarian access continue to have a devastating impact on the safety, security, rights and well-being of children.
Syria has one of the largest numbers of internally displaced persons (IDPs) in the world (7.4 million IDPs). The UN and humanitarian partners also estimate that in 2025 over 16.5 million people in Syria need humanitarian assistance.
Since 8 December 2024, over 1,000 casualties from unexploded ordnance (UXO) have been reported, including hundreds of deaths and injuries, one-third of them children, highlighting the urgent need for protection and risk education.
The current volume and pace of deliveries remain critically insufficient to meet the needs of Gaza's entire population, which is facing high levels of acute food insecurity.
Due to the worsening humanitarian crisis in Sudan with more than 124 million forcibly displaced, out of which 3.4 million fled into neighbouring countries, the Federation-wide Emergency Appeal was revised, increasing the total funding ask from the initial CHF 42 million to CHF 47.5 million and extending the operation end date to December 2025.
Between 18 and 21 June 2025, DTM field teams estimated that 253 households were displaced from Abu Shouk IDP camp and Al Fasher town, Al Fasher locality due to heightened insecurity and deteriorating economic conditions.
Since October 7, 2023, the West Bank has been drawn deeper into the crisis unfolding across Palestine. Israel has imposed an increasingly severe military lockdown, effectively cutting off Palestinian towns and villages behind more than 800 metal gates and concrete barriers. Movement is strangled. Families are trapped. Lives are in limbo.
The International Organization for Migration (IOM) is deeply alarmed by the suspension of its life-saving transport services for thousands of displaced people in South Sudan due to critical funding shortfalls.
This gender analysis examines the differentiated impacts of the ongoing humanitarian crisis in Lebanon on women, men, girls, and boys, with a specific emphasis on education, child protection, and access barriers across key sectors including WASH, education, nutrition, shelter, and livelihoods.
The number of malnourished children in the Gaza Strip is rising at an alarming rate, with 5,119 children between 6 months and 5 years of age admitted for treatment for acute malnutrition in May alone.
Now in its third year, the war in Sudan has unleashed a relentless assault on the bodies and rights of women and girls. Across areas affected by the conflict, sexual violence is used as a weapon of war, a targeted tactic to instill terror, enforce displacement and exert control.
Between 15 and 17 June 2025, DTM field teams estimated that approximately 4,278 individuals were displaced from Al Muthallath area, Halfa locality in Northern state. Displacement followed reported clashes between the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) on 11 June 2025.
During the last 20 months, the Commission, other UN bodies, human rights organizations and states have highlighted the harrowing situation in Gaza and called for an end to the unlawful killing, starvation, and destruction. But Israeli authorities have not only continued these crimes, but in many respects have escalated them.
