Gaza humanitarian crisis

Up to 1,000 women and children needing medical care will shortly be evacuated from Gaza to Europe, the head of the World Health Organization's Europe branch said in comments published on Monday.

On Friday, Israeli airstrikes in the Gaza Strip resulted in the deaths of at least 33 people, coinciding with the announcement of Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar's death. Among those killed, 21 were women, according to health authorities in Gaza, specifically from an attack on the Jabalia refugee area. The strike injured 85 people and led to the collapse of three family homes.

Türkiye marked World Humanitarian Day on Monday with a condemnation of Israel's ongoing offensive in Gaza, which has claimed over 40,000 lives in the last 10 months, emphasizing the need for accountability.

"We pay tribute to those who sacrificially serve in every corner of the world," the Turkish Foreign Ministry stated on X, honoring humanitarian workers.

With Gaza largely in ruins after more than 10 months of war, the Hamas-run territory's health ministry has struggled to count the death toll, which on Thursday surpassed 40,000.

Israel has repeatedly questioned the credibility of the daily figures put out by the ministry and U.S. President Joe Biden did so too in the early stages of the war.

Kamala Harris signaled a major shift on U.S. Gaza policy Thursday, with the presidential hopeful telling Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to seal a peace deal and insisting she would not be "silent" on the suffering in the Palestinian enclave.

Andrea de Domenico, the U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) Humanitarian Affairs Coordinator in the Occupied Palestinian Territories, has reported that 9 out of 10 people in Gaza have been displaced at least once.

Speaking to journalists via an online link from Jerusalem, de Domenico emphasized the severe and continuous displacement crisis in the region.

Without an immediate ceasefire in Gaza, children are at grave risk of becoming a "lost generation" due to pervasive hunger and psychological trauma in the war-torn enclave, warns the head of the U.N. agency for Palestinian refugees.

More than 100,000 people have fled Rafah in recent days, the United Nations said on May 10, with Israeli tanks encircling the eastern half of the southern Gaza city, under threat of a full-scale ground invasion.

U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Thursday painted a dark picture of the situation in the Middle East, warning that spiraling tensions over the war in Gaza and Iran's attack on Israel could devolve into a "full-scale regional conflict."

Thirteen individuals, including seven children, lost their lives, while more than 25 others sustained injuries in an airstrike targeting the Al-Maghazi refugee camp in central Gaza on Tuesday, as reported by CNN, citing officials from Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital.