The humanitarian situation in the besieged Gaza Strip is getting worse more than a week after a ceasefire was agreed between Israelis and Palestinians.
The United Nations’ humanitarian chief Valerie Amos has said that Syrian civilians continue to be victims of “flagrant” violations of basic international law and human rights as a result of the foreign-hatched unrest in Syria.
The United Nations humanitarian chief says the measures adopted by the Security Council to aid millions of people in Syria is not working.
Around six hundred people have been evacuated from the devastated militant-held district of the central Syrian city of Homs, activists and officials say.
UN humanitarian chief Valerie Amos has expressed deep disappointment after an aid convoy came under fire in a besieged district of the Syrian city Homs, though she vowed to keep pushing to deliver humanitarian assistance to Syria's neediest.
The United Nations has censured the failure of the Geneva II talks on Syria to find a concrete resolution to the humanitarian crisis in the country.
Donors meeting in Kuwait have pledged more than $2.4 billion in humanitarian aid for victims of the Syrian war, less than half the $6.5 billion sought by the United Nations.
The United Nations has warned of a major rise in number of homeless people in Syria, and called for greater UN Security Council pressure to seek access to the war-stricken nation.
The United Nations says about two million people in Syria are living in besieged areas, under terrible condition, as a result of the ongoing war in the Arab country.
Syrian hawks have reiterated times and again that Syrian President Bashar al-Assad is behind death of 100,000 civilians.
Iran’s deputy foreign minister has called for a halt to the influx of weapons to the foreign-backed militants in Syria, which has aggravated the humanitarian crisis in the country.
UN humanitarian chief Valerie Amos says 11 UN workers have already been killed in Syria, citing several cases of abductions.
The United Nations has called for a ceasefire in Syria’s al-Qusayr as the Syrian army is trying to clear the flush out foreign-backed militants from the border town.