News in Brief 6 February 2024

WFP food warehouse stormed by desperate civilians, as starvation loomsThe UN honours the service and sacrifice of peacekeepersA new $15 million initiative to boost sustainable development in the Congo Basin 

Climate change: World likely to breach 1.5°C limit in next five yearsGaza: 50,000 children killed in less than 600 days warns UNICEFEssential supplies reach Sudanese hospital: WHO 

بودكاست أخبار: عشرون يوما على الحرب في غزة، دمار ومزيد من القصف والضحايا. إسرائيل تنفذ توغلا داخل قطاع غزة وتواصل الإعداد لهجوم بري رغم التحذيرات. الأمم المتحدة تؤكد أنه لا مكان آمنا في غزة. والتساقطات المطرية تنعش آمال الفلاحين المغاربة في موسم فلاحي جيد. 

Israel issues fresh warning as strikes on Gaza intensify ahead of an anticipated ground offensive in the next phase of the war against Hamas. We hear from the Israel Defence Forces, from a relative of an entire family taken hostage by Hamas, and from a Gaza resident about the dir ...  Show more

Rafah, a tiny city at Gaza’s border with Egypt, is currently sheltering more than half of the territory’s population. Many, crammed together in tent cities, have already relocated multiple times, as Israel’s war with Hamas has pushed them further and further south. Now, as Israel ...  Show more

A Rafah ci sono più di un milione di sfollati. La gente dorme in dieci per stanza, sotto teli di plastica oppure per strada. La densità di popolazione nella Striscia era già altissima prima del 7 ottobre, adesso che in molti si sono rifugiati a ridosso del confine, a Rafah è la p ...  Show more