Israel-Palestine

The ongoing conflict engulfing Israel and Palestine continues to raise significant issues of international law and policy.

12 March 2024 // Save The Children RAMALLAH, 12 MARCH 2024 – Five months of violence, displacement, starvation and disease on top of nearly 17 years of a blockade have caused relentless mental harm to children in Gaza, Save the Children said today. Parents and caregivers told the child rights organisation that children’s capacity to even imagine a

23 February 2024 // UNFPA RAFAH, The Gaza Strip – “It was exhausting – we handled 78 cases in one night.” There are only five beds for deliveries at the Al-Helal Al-Emirati maternity hospital in Rafah, where midwife Samira Hosny Qeshta works. This is one of southern Gaza’s few remaining functioning hospitals. UNFPA, the United Nations sexual

Since 7 October 2023, more than 24,620 Palestinians have been killed in the Gaza Strip, 70 per cent of whom were women or children.1&2 More than 1.9 million people — 85 per cent of the total population of Gaza — have been displaced,3 including what UN Women estimates to be nearly 1 million women and

Allegations against 12 employees led major donors to suspend funding to UN Palestinian agency despite hunger crisis in Gaza

Civilians in Gaza in extreme peril while the world watches on: Ten requirements to avoid an even worse catastrophe

The Gaza war has set off a number of acrimonious and polarized debates. One of the most consequential ones for policymaking in the Middle East and internationally has focused on the fate and governance of Gaza and its population.