"REFUGEE CAMPS"

UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, announced today that Abdullahi Mire – a former refugee and journalist who has championed the right to education while putting 100,000 books in the hands of refugee children in Kenya – will be the UNHCR Nansen Refugee Award’s 2023 global laureate. UNHCR

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

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk today urged all States to create the space for a path out of the horror unfolding in the Occupied Palestinian Territory – both Gaza and the West Bank – and in Israel. UNTV CH

The UN High Representative for Disarmament Affairs, Izumi Nakamitsu, said, “Even wars have rules.” UNIFEED

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk on Friday spoke about the situation in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territory at a news conference in Amman at the end of his mission to Egypt and Jordan. OHCHR

Following his visit to the Rafah crossing, in Egypt, the High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Türk, in Cairo said, “in Rafah I have witnessed the gates to a living nightmare.” OHCHR

“The Rafah crossing has been the symbolic lifeline for the last month for the 2.3 million people in Gaza,” UN Human Rights Chief Volker Türk said during a visit to the Rafah Border Crossing and El Arish Hospital in Egypt. OHCHR

Within Sudan, 4.5 million people have been internally displaced since April, when the war began, while 1.2 million have fled to neighbouring countries. The overwhelming majority of the refugees are women and children. UNHCR

Palestinian Ambassador Riyad Mansour said that the members of the Organization of the Islamic Cooperation (OIC) are “united in demonstrating solidarity and support to the Palestinian people, and demanding the implementation of the Resolution in the General Assembly.” UNIFEED

As the crisis in the Palestinian enclave continues to worsen amid intense Israeli bombardments and an ongoing ground operation, UN humanitarians reiterated on Friday their call for a humanitarian pause to be able to deliver urgently needed relief items and to allow for severely wounded people to get out of the Gaza Strip. UNTV CH