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While UN humanitarians scale up the response to survivors of the flood disaster in Libya which wiped out entire neighborhoods and left thousands dead and many more missing, the UN’s aid chief warned that mental health care will be a huge issue for survivors of that catastrophe and the Moroccan earthquake last week. UNTV CH

On the humanitarian situation in the area around the Lachin Corridor, UN senior humanitarian affairs official Edem Wosornu said, “It is incumbent on the parties not to impede or politicize any principled humanitarian effort. Responding to humanitarian needs is not an act of legitimization or recognition; it does not take sides and it does not yield to political influence.” UNIFEED

According to the UN, 339 million people will require humanitarian aid this year just to survive. Almost one third of these people live in countries subject to UN sanctions. UNIFEED

Addressing the Security Council annual debate on the protection of civilians (PoC) in armed conflict, Secretary-General António Guterres said, “war is devastating lives around the world,” and stressed that “we must intensify our efforts to prevent conflict, protect civilians, preserve peace and find political solutions to war.” UNIFEED

“The people of Sudan, already deeply affected by humanitarian needs, are staring into the abyss,” says OCHA. UNTV CH

After the conclusion of the Seventh Meeting of the Supervisory Committee on the Implementation of the Detainees’ Exchange Agreement for Yemen, the Special Envoy of the Secretary-General for Yemen, Hans Grundberg, said, “the parties have agreed on implementation plans to release 887 conflict-related detainees from all sides.” UNTV CH

UN aid trucks filled with vital relief support continue to cross the border from southern Türkiye into northwest Syria to help communities enduring terrible trauma caused by last week’s earthquake disaster, and they will “continue every day for as long as the needs are there”, UN aid teams said. UNTV CH

The heads of three UN entities and the President of the International Committee of the Red Cross today urged States to support a new political declaration to protect civilians from explosive weapons in populated areas. UNICEF

A UN-partnered bid to address the use of explosive weapons in towns and cities took a further step forward on Thursday, as Member States prepared to gather in Geneva to examine a concrete new plan of action. UNTV CH

In Ukraine on Tuesday, UN humanitarians began to help the first evacuees arriving from Mariupol’s devastated Azovstal steel works, more than two months since Russia’s invasion began, and said that they would do everything possible to assist those still trapped. OCHA