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According to UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency since 17 April, at least 380 people have been killed in #Lebanon despite the ceasefire, and widespread destruction continues across large parts of the country Meanwhile, the IFRC says Red Cross volunteers are asking for protection.
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"The Commission finds that the Israeli authorities intended to kill as many Palestinians as possible through its military operations in #Gaza since 7 October 2023 and knew that the means and methods of warfare employed would cause mass deaths of Palestinians, including children."
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"The Palestinian death toll has reached 9,061. Women and children are 62% of these victims." - @unocha "Settler violence has also escalated dramatically, averaging seven attacks a day. In more than a third of these attacks, firearms were used." - @unhumanrights
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#Iran "The attack that hit the the girls school was absolutely devastating. If attacks are found to be directed against civilians or civilian objects, or indiscriminate, they are serious violations of international humanitarian law & may amount to war crimes." - UN Human Rights
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"It is a famine. The Gaza Famine. It is a famine that we could have prevented, if we had been allowed. Yet food stacks up at borders because of systematic obstruction by Israel. Everyone owns this. The #GazaFamine is the world’s famine." - Tom Fletcher
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"I'm furious. Furious that those with power shrug at the humanitarian nightmares unleashed on 1 mil. children. Furious that disease is as well-armed as the warring parties, but it gets no attention.” - James Elder for UNICEF, with Dr Margaret Harris for World Health Organization (WHO), briefing on #Gaza
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"If there is a hell on earth today, its name is northern Gaza." - UN Humanitarian
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.UN Human Rights on #Iran 🇮🇷 : "The killing of peaceful demonstrators must stop. We urge the Iranian authorities to halt immediately all forms of violence and repression against peaceful protesters and to restore full access to the internet and telecommunication services."
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Independent human rights expert Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt presents her latest findings. "My report finds that there are reasonable grounds to believe that the threshold indicating that #Israel is commiting the crime of genocide against Palestinians as a group in #Gaza has been met."
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"Gaza has become a graveyard for children. It's a living hell for everyone else.” - UNICEF "Fuel is vital for the water supply; for the ambulances; for the hospitals to operate." - World Health Organization (WHO) "Some of these buildings where people are sheltering are coming under attack." - UN Humanitarian
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"We have just witnessed over the last few weeks the largest displacement of Palestinians since 1948. It's an exodus under our watch, a river of people being forced to flee their home." - UNRWA chief Philippe Lazzarini describes the scale of destruction and loss in #Gaza
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"As more information emerges on serious allegations of sexual violence by members of armed Palestinian groups during their attacks on #Israel on 7-8 October, it is painfully clear that these attacks need to be fully investigated to ensure justice for the victims." - Volker Türk
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#Hantavirus: “At this stage, the overall public health risk remains low,” Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said. Eight cases have been reported so far, including five laboratory-confirmed infections and three suspected cases linked to the rare Andes strain of hantavirus.
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"#COVID is still a global health threat, and it's causing far too much burden when we can prevent it. Five, ten, years from now, what are we going to see in terms of cardiac impairment, of pulmonary impairment of neurologic impairment? We don't know." - Maria Van Kerkhove of @who
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