United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs

Patient Extremism: The Many Faces of the Muslim Brotherhood

7 UN Organizations That Undermine Israel and the U.S.

The Trump administration announced on July 22 its departure from the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) by the end of 2026. State Department spokesperson Tammy Bruce...

Gaza Humanitarian Foundation Blames Hamas Affiliates for Stampede and Stabbing at Aid Site

Hamas Affiliates Provocation Leads to Deaths: The Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) blamed Hamas-affiliated agitators for a stampede that caused the deaths of 19 Palestinians at...

Pro-Hamas ‘Resilience Convoy’ Heads Across North Africa to Egyptian Border With Gaza

Activists Head to Gaza via Land Convoy: More than 7,000 pro-Hamas activists drawn from several North African countries crossed from Tunisia into Libya on June 10, traveling in a...

Israel’s New Chief of Staff Faces First Test

In the early hours of March 18, the Israel Defense Forces began a round of airstrikes in Gaza targeting Hamas, the largest since a ceasefire that began on January 19 and ended on March 1. 

UN Equates Israel With Hamas in ‘Children in Armed Conflict’ Blacklist

The United Nations’ (UN) institutional bias against Israel was on display on June 13, as the Secretary-General’s annual report on children in armed conflict included the Jewish...

How the UN Got Away With Wildly Inflating the Casualty Numbers in Gaza—and the Media Bought It

On May 6, a U.N. office reported that more than 9,500 women and 14,500 children had been killed so far in Gaza. The office had been reporting similar figures for nearly two months. Yet on May 8, the...

Why the U.N.’s Gaza Casualty Figures Were So Off

The U.N. nearly halved its estimate of women and children killed in Gaza after relying on figures from Hamas-controlled organizations.

UN Halves Its Estimate of Women and Children Killed in Gaza

The United Nations Office for Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) revised its child fatality figure from the Gaza war sharply downward, reporting more than 14,500 deaths...

Turn-Key Alternatives to Replace UNRWA Immediately

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Is Gaza Really the Biggest Case of Arab Suffering?

What would a Sudanese person watching that country’s renewed civil war — which has killed 14,000, displaced eight million, and threatens 17 million with famine in less than a year — think when...

Egypt Threatens to Suspend Peace Treaty With Israel

Cairo threatened to suspend its peace treaty with Israel if civilians in Gaza are evacuated to Egypt, according to reports on February 5. “If even one Palestinian refugee crosses...

Israel SitRep: Nov. 8, 2023

Netanyahu Reiterates: No Ceasefire Without Release of Hostages; Qatar-Mediated Deal on Ceasefire-Hostage Exchange Reported to be Underway | IDF: Israel Operating in the ‘Heart of Gaza’; Hamas Retains...

Israeli Death Toll from Gaza Onslaught Hits 1,200

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A Strategy to End the Systematic Theft of Humanitarian Aid in Syria

Investors Should Demand Transparency From ESG Research Firms

End-of-year data show that in 2021, investment surged in stocks rated positively by financial research firms on Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) criteria, which include an ever-growing list of...

Syria Faces Omicron Amid a Shortage of Vaccines

As in other countries, statistics do not convey the extent of the suffering.

Time to Act on Human Shields

Coronavirus: Arab countries, Palestinian and Israeli cooperation must be welcomed

Amidst the COVID-19 pandemic, good news is hard to come by. However, historical foes in the Middle East have teamed up to fight the virus, breaking taboos and opening up new areas of cooperation. Arab countries...

Saving Northeastern Syria

How Washington Can Help Strike a Deal Between Turkey and the Kurds