The Latest Breaking News from OCHA

The United Nations has described floods that uprooted hundreds of thousands of people in Somalia and neighbouring countries in East Africa following a historic drought as a once-in-a-century event.

Bel Trew visits villages in the occupied West Bank and hears harrowing tales of settler violence in which Palestinian families describe being forced from their homes – in what human rights groups say is the single biggest land grab since Israel captured the region in 1967

Gaza’s already rudimentary water network has been obliterated, with 2.2 million residents trying to get by on three litres a day

Understanding the current war between Israel and Hamas in Gaza requires context and history. These charts aim to show changes in the region that have occurred over time to put some of the events in perspective.

President Joe Biden says he struck a deal with his Egyptian counterpart to allow a first run of 20 trucks carrying humanitarian aid to enter Gaza, which Israel sealed off after the Hamas attack on Oct. 7.

U.N. officials and their partners are ramping up efforts to take advantage of a possible window for Israel and Egypt to allow humanitarian aid shipments into Gaza, whose people have been stripped of deliveries of fuel, food, water and medical supplies from the outside as Israeli forces strike at Hamas…

Gaza’s residents are grappling with shortages of food and water while hospitals are overwhelmed amid Israeli bombing.

"Israeli settlers are shooting, injuring, setting fires, and damaging property," human rights group says

Israel’s strikes and blockade are pushing Gaza’s essential services and resources to the brink of collapse.