"FOOD SHORTAGE"

In the run-up to COP28, the World Health Organization (WHO) together with the global health community, is raising its voice to ensure that the impact of climate change on health takes centre stage in the negotiations. WHO

The situation in the Middle East, including the Palestinian question.

Maintenance of peace and security of Ukraine.

4.5 million people in north-west Syria are bracing to survive winter after a year marked by earthquakes, acute food shortages, and heightened hostilities. OCHA

Press conference by Abdallah Al Dardari, Assistant Secretary-General and Director of the Regional Bureau for Arab States, in the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), and Rola Dashti, Executive Secretary, UN Economic and Social Commission for West Asia (ESCWA). They briefed on the launch of a new rapid assessment entitled "The Gaza War: Expected Socioeconomic Impacts on the State of Palestine".

The risk of disease spread soars in Gaza as health facilities, water and sanitation systems disrupted, the World Health Organization said. WHO

A spokesperson for the World Food Programme (WFP) in Palestine said the agency has “more than 40 trucks waiting by the border,” between Egypt and Gaza, and are “prepared for any time that we're able to enter again.” UNIFEED / FILE

The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) welcomed today’s opening of the border crossing between Egypt and Gaza, which enabled a first convoy of trucks to bring in urgently needed food, water and other supplies provided by the Egyptian Red Crescent and the United Nations for hundreds of thousands of Palestinians who have been struggling amid desperate conditions. WFP

Press conference by Mary-Ellen McGroarty, World Food Programme (WFP) Country Director in South Sudan, on the humanitarian situation in South Sudan.

Addressing the General Assembly, Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy warned Member States, “The mass destruction is gaining its momentum. The aggressor is weaponizing many other things and those things are used not only against our country but against all of yours as well.” UNIFEED