Statement on Gaza by Tom Fletcher, Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief CoordinatorNew York, 3 October 2025President Trump’s Gaza initiative opens a window of opportunity. It offers both a chance for Palestinians to receive life-saving aid at the scale urgently needed, and to bring the hostages home.We are ready and eager to act.We have some 170,000 metric tons of food, medicine, shelter and other desperately needed supplies poised to enter Gaza from across the region.Our plan is not a...
The scale of destruction was unclear in Myanmar, where the military government keeps a tight hold on information. The U.S. Geological Survey estimated thousands could be deadBANGKOK — A 7.7-magnitude earthquake centered in Myanmar reverberated across Southeast Asia on Friday, with the scale of death and destruction slowly coming into view in the war-ravaged nation, where the military government maintains a tight hold on information.The earthquake occurred around 1:30 p.m. local time (2:30 a.m. ET) at a depth of 6...
Conflict in Colombia’s Norte de Santander department has led to rapidly escalating humanitarian needs among host and displaced communities across the country, Project HOPE warns. As violence expands to Cúcuta and Villa del Rosario this week, where detonated explosives mark an alarming escalation, these communities are experiencing the worst unrest in years. A new assessment found that the conflict between rival groups has caused 122,000 people to be dependent on humanitarian aid in the Cúcuta, Ocaña, and Tibú regions.The assessment...
