Hunger

Yemen is experiencing the most serious escalation between Saudi Arabia and the Iran-aligned Houthi group since a UN-brokered truce largely halted cross-border attacks ​in 2022.

“Without urgent and sustained action, an entire generation of children and young people risks carrying the scars of this crisis into adulthood,” UNICEF Lebanon Representative Marcoluigi Corsi said. 

"This is not a distant threat to health," Prof. Asaph Aharoni told the Post, saying up to two-thirds of the world's population already lacks essential micronutrients.

Feeling hungry a short time after breakfast? It is possible that the problem is not with the amount of food, but rather with its composition.

From a leaky trunk to Israel's national food bank: Joseph Gitler on waste, "startup nation poverty," and feeding families after Oct 7.

The World Food Programme has halved emergency food aid in Syria due to funding shortages, leaving millions vulnerable despite signs of stabilization.

The US-Israeli attacks on Iran that began on February 26 have choked up key humanitarian aid routes, delaying life-saving shipments to some of the world's worst crises.

Somalia declared a national drought emergency in November after years of failed rains, with the UN World Food Programme last week announcing cutbacks to its assistance.

Samer Khawaireh, 45, told Reuters that all he was given to eat in Israel's prisons was ten thin pieces of bread over the course of a day, with a bit of hummus and tahini, and tuna twice a week.

Three months after the October 7, 2023 Hamas attacks and Israel's entry into the Gaza Strip, the internal message laid out in gruesome detail scenes observed by United Nations staff.