"CONFLICT SITUATION"

Security Council meeting: The situation in the Middle East

Briefing the Security Council on the situation in Idlib, the Under-Secretary-General for Political and Peacebuilding Affairs, Rosemary Di Carlo, said, “we are at yet another juncture in the Syrian conflict where civilians are paying the price for a never-ending war.” UNIFEED

UN agencies strongly condemned Thursday’s airstrikes on Yemen’s capital Sana’s that reportedly killed five children and injured dozens more. The agencies also warned of the “brutal toll” on civilians of more than four years of conflict. UNTV CH

Starvation “is already starting” in a camp for displaced people in south-east Syria, a senior UN official said on Thursday, while condemning ongoing airstrikes and retaliatory shelling in opposition-held territories in the north-west. UNTV CH

Venezuelan Ambassador Samuel Moncada reported that US authorities “tried to forcibly evict” a group of individuals who were “peacefully” occupying the Venezuelan Embassy in Washington DC. UNIFEED

Parties to Yemen conflict must set differences aside, move towards lasting political settlement, Special Envoy, other officials tell Security Council at 8525th meeting.

The head of the UN Mission to Support the Hudaydah Agreement (UNMHA) Lieutenant General Michael Lollesgaard told reporters that “it is an important objective in the Stockholm Agreement that the ports are open, they are getting better capacity and UNMHA is getting access to the port.” UNIFEED

UN Special Envoy for Yemen Martin Griffiths said after Ansar Allah’s military forces left three Yemeni ports, “we have seen the first concrete step” towards the implementation of the Stockholm agreement. UNIFEED

In a statement read by a UN spokesperson, the Chairperson of the Redeployment Coordination Committee (RCC) in Yemen, Lieutenant General Michael Lollesgaard, welcomed the handing over of the ports of Hudaydah, Salif and Ras Issa. UNIFEED

UN aid agencies expressed their concern over the dramatically deteriorating humanitarian situation in Tripoli and stressed that more needed to be done to protect all non-combatants caught up in the battle for the Libyan capital, as victim numbers rise and thousands flee their homes. UNTV CH