"CONFLICT SITUATION"

Welcoming peaceful transfer of power in Iraq, Head of Assistance Mission says international support crucial for improving security, basic service delivery at 8396th meeting.

Israeli ambassador Danny Danon told reporters that the Security Council “must only condemn Hamas today for its aggressive assault on civilians and finally designate it as a terrorist organization” in response to the violence in the Gaza strip and southern Israel and added, “If it will not be quiet in Israel, it will not be quiet in Gaza.” UNIFEED

UN spokesperson Farhan Haq said, “Egypt and the UN have been working very hard” to ensure that there is a return to the ceasefire arrangements of 2014 in Gaza and urged all parties to “exercise maximum restraint.” UNIFEED

UN spokesperson Farhan Haq said the United Nations continues to call on parties to the conflict in Syria’s Deir Ezzour governorate “to respect their obligations under international humanitarian law” after airstrikes reportedly killed four civilians in Hajin city on Sunday. UNIFEED

UN Special Representative for Libya Ghassan Salamé said the country was caught in a “futile and destructive cycle, fuelled by personal ambitions and the nation’s stolen wealth” and is fast becoming “the tragedy of the lost opportunity.” UNIFEED

Updating on the humanitarian situation in the Central African Republic (CAR,) the Spokesperson for Secretary-General António Guterres, said, “tensions remain high in Batangafo Town in Ouham Prefecture, where an internally displaced site was set on fire due to clashes and retaliation by opposing armed groups on 31st of October and 1st of November.” UNIFEED

The Executive Director of the World Food Programme (WFP), David Beasley, said that while 15 trillion dollars of the world’s GDP are "wasted on the impact of war” and 1.7 trillion dollars are spent per year on military, “we are struggling just to get a few more billion dollars to make sure that no child in the world goes to bed hungry.” UNIFEED

Security Council renews multinational stabilization force in Bosnia and Herzegovina, unanimously adopting Resolution 2443 (2018) at 8392nd meeting.

A UN inter-agency convoy of 70 trucks reached the Rukban camp in Syria with humanitarian aid for some 50,000 people. WFP

The Director-General of the World Health Organization, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, and the Under-Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations, Jean-Pierre Lacroix, undertook a joint visit to the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) to take stock of the situation and of joint efforts in response to the Ebola outbreak in North Kivu. MONUSCO