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Six months since the outbreak of the war in Gaza, a United Nations humanitarian official told the Security Council that “there is no protection of civilians in Gaza,” and said that “sadly,” it cannot be said that the killing of 7 World Central Kitchen aid workers “was an isolated incident in this conflict.” UNIFEED

Coinciding with the thirtieth anniversary of the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda (7 April), the United Nations Headquarters in New York opened a new exhibit about the power of post-genocide reconciliation and the potentially deadly impact of hate speech. UNIFEED

Assistant-Secretary-General Khaled Khiari told the Security Council that the expansion of armed conflict throughout Myanmar, “has deprived communities of basic needs and access to essential services, and a devastating impact on human rights and fundamental freedoms.” UNIFEED

The Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Children and Armed Conflict, Virginia Gamba, said, “Without compliance by parties to conflict to allow safe, full, and unhindered access for timely delivery of humanitarian assistance, children’s survival, well-being, and development are in jeopardy and our calls are mere echoes in this chamber.” UNIFEED

Assistant-Secretary-General Khaled Khiari reiterated the Secretary-General’s condemnation of the Israeli attack on an Iranian Embassy building in Damascus and said, “the inviolability of diplomatic and consular premises and personnel must be respected in all cases in accordance with international law.” UNIFEED

Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield, Representative of the United States to the United Nations, joined by U.S. Special Envoy for Sudan, Tom Pierrello, addressed reporters at UN Headquarters to discuss Sudan. UNIFEED

Presenting a new report by the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) on the situation in Haiti, Human rights expert William O’Neill said that if the deployment of a Multinational Security Support (MSS) mission “takes much longer, there may not be much” of a Haitian National Police (HNP) to support. UNIFEED

Presenting the Secretary-General’s latest report on the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) the Head of the United Nations Mission in the country told the Security Council that the security situation in Eastern DRC “further deteriorated” since the end of the December elections, with the M23 rebel group “marking significant advances and expanding its territory to unprecedented levels.” UNIFEED

Briefing a Security Council meeting on Ukraine, the High Representative for Disarmament Affairs, Izumi Nakamitsu, noted the massive wave of missile and drone attacks that hit Ukraine Friday, saying that the targeting of energy infrastructure is simply unacceptable. UNIFEED

According to the Food and Agriculture Organization, almost 18 million people in Sudan are facing acute food insecurity. UNIFEED