UN / GAZA SOCIOECONOMIC IMPACT

The World Health Organization (WHO) and partners facilitated the deployment of an international medical team to Kamal Adwan Hospital and successfully transferred four patients to European Gaza Hospital. The team also delivered essential medical supplies to Kamal Adwan Hospital and support the assessment of Al-Awda Hospital. WHO

Continuing her farewell meetings with Somali leaders, the UN’s top official for Somalia today visited Baidoa, where she met with South West State’s President Abdiaziz Hassan Mohamed ‘Laftagareen’ for wide-ranging discussions on local and national issues. UNSOM

UN Spokesperson Stéphane Dujarric said that the Secretary-General’s expressed his deep distress at the news of the hundreds of lives lost and many others affected by the heavy flooding in Burundi, in Kenya, Somalia and Tanzania, as well as other parts of East Africa. UNIFEED

Israeli Ambassador Gilad Erdan told the General Assembly that “nothing exemplifies the UN's rotten values more than the advancement of a Palestinian statehood,” and stressed that the Palestinian Authority “doesn't meet the criteria for statehood.” UNIFEED

After several years of conflict, one in five Central Africans is displaced, either inside the country or living abroad. They fled their houses due to insecurity caused by the violence of numerous armed factions. Many have settled on the PK3 site in Bria, the largest site for internally displaced people (IDP) in the country, situated in the Haute-Kotto prefecture, eastern part of the Central African Republic (CAR). OCHA

Spokesperson Stéphane Dujarric announced that in accordance with Security Council Resolution 2717, adopted last December, the Peacekeeping mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo – MONUSCO - withdrew its Force from South Kivu by the end of April and, starting today, it is limiting the implementation of its mandate to the provinces of North Kivu and Ituri. UNIFEED

The US Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield told reporters that the elimination of the 1718 Committee Panel “undermined the work of the Council,” reiterating the demand that the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) “comply with its obligations under multiple Security Council resolutions; abandon its weapons of mass destruction and ballistic missile programs in a complete, verifiable, and irreversible manner; and engage constructively in diplomacy.” UNIFEED

UN senior political affairs official Miroslav Jenča said, “The United Nations is committed to support Bosnia and Herzegovina in its path towards reconciliation, peacebuilding and sustainable development.” UNIFEED

“For the sake of the people of Gaza, for the sake of the hostages and their families in Israel, and for the sake of the region and the wider world,” Secretary-General António Guterres “strongly” encouraged the government of Israel and the Hamas leadership to reach now an agreement, without which “the war, with all its consequences both in Gaza and across the region, will worsen exponentially.” UNIFEED

The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) warns that much more assistance to Palestinians in Gaza is necessary to prevent a worsening famine trend, despite some recent improvements in the flow of aid. UNTV CH