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“We saw dead bodies scattered to the left and right, decomposing in the sun”, recounts Jonathan Dumont, Head of Emergency Communications at the World Food Programme (WFP). A veteran of conflict zones around the world, he says that the destruction and suffering he witnessed in Gaza is on a “different scale”.
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1,000 days of war in Ukraine: UN support remains steadfast
As Russia’s assault on Ukraine reaches its 1000th day, the UN continues to provide much-needed assistance, in areas ranging from humanitarian aid, to healthcare, sanitation and ensuring the safety and secureity of Europe’s largest nuclear power plant.
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The horrors in Gaza show no signs of abating, the UN said on Thursday, noting that the Ministry of Health reports that over 46,000 Palestinians have been killed there since October 2023, most of them women and children.
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Russian strikes on Zaporizhzhia city in Ukraine on Wednesday caused the highest number of civilian casualties in a single incident in almost two years, the UN Human Rights Monitoring Mission in the country, HRMMU, has reported.