"INTERNALLY DISPLACED PERSONS"

On the fifth day of a pause in fighting in the Gaza Strip, UN humanitarians echoed the UN Secretary-General and called for a full humanitarian ceasefire and for more aid deliveries to enter into the devastated enclave, such is the scale of need. UNTV CH

A UN spokesperson said that the Secretary-General “has welcomed the agreement reached by Israel and Hamas, with the mediation of Qatar and supported by Egypt and the United States.” UNIFEED

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

A second WHO-led joint UN mission, working in collaboration with the Palestine Red Crescent Society, earlier Sunday evacuated 31 babies from Al-Shifa Hospital in northern Gaza to a hospital in southern Gaza. WHO

Wrapping up her second visit to the Horn of Africa country, the Independent Expert on the Situation of Human Rights in Somalia highlighted the interlinkages of human rights and other developments in the country. UNSOM

Noon briefing by Stéphane Dujarric, Spokesperson for the Secretary-General.

Reports of the Secretary-General on the Sudan and South Sudan.

Amid the growing and disastrous health situation in Gaza, where more patients, including premature babies, have reportedly died in Gaza City’s Al-Shifa hospital, and where first winter rains have brought flooding into Gaza, the UN World Health Organization (WHO) reiterated its urgent call for a ceasefire in the Palestinian enclave. UNTV CH

Carrying on her regular engagements with the Federal Member States, UN Secretary-General’s Special Representative for Somalia Catriona Laing, visited Puntland, where she met with its leadership, political actors and civil society. UNSOM

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