Syria/Lebanon, Chad, Women/Peacekeeping & other topics - Daily Press Briefing (17 Oct 2024)

Noon briefing by Farhan Haq, Deputy Spokesperson for the Secretary-General.

Highlights:
-Briefings tomorrow
-IPC report
-Occupied Palestinian Territory
-Lebanon
-Lebanon/Humanitarian
-Syria/Lebanon
-Chad
-Women/Peacekeeping
-Poverty Index
-Eradication of poverty

IPC REPORT
The Secretary-General said that he is alarmed by today’s IPC report findings that high displacement and restrictions on humanitarian aid flows mean that the people of Gaza are facing catastrophic levels of hunger. One year into the conflict, famine looms. This is intolerable, the Secretary-General said.
Mr. Guterres said that crossing points must open immediately, bureaucratic impediments must be removed, and law and order must be restored so that UN agencies can deliver lifesaving humanitarian assistance.
Earlier today, the World Food Programme and the Food and Agriculture Organization said that the latest findings of the Integrated Phase Classification (IPC) report, collecting the work of 16 UN agencies and NGOs, make clear that the risk of famine persists across the whole Gaza Strip. Given the recent surge in hostilities, there are growing concerns that this worst-case scenario may materialize.
Between September and October 2024, the whole territory is classified in IPC Phase 4 - Emergency. About 1.84 million people across the Gaza Strip are experiencing high levels of acute food insecurity, classified in IPC Phase 3 – Crisis - or above, including nearly 133,000 people facing catastrophic food insecurity, which is IPC Phase 5. Acute Malnutrition is ten times higher than before the escalation of the hostilities.
The report adds that nearly the entire population has been displaced multiple times, risking injuries or death from shelling and aerial bombardments, while many vulnerable groups are unable to relocate or find safe shelter. The majority are living in temporary makeshift camps with an alarming density of almost 40,000 people per square kilometre.

OCCUPIED PALESTINIAN TERRITORY
Our colleagues from Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs warn that the ongoing Israeli military operations in northern Gaza are putting tens of thousands of civilians in grave danger. OCHA stresses once again that civilians in the north and across Gaza must be protected. Moreover, the military offensive in northern Gaza is also choking off people’s access to the essentials for their survival, including water.
Intense hostilities, evacuation orders, and loss of access to numerous water, sanitation and hygiene facilities in northern Gaza have rendered a number of systems for water production and wastewater collection inoperable. In Jabalya and Beit Lahya, water production from municipal wells is currently at zero. That’s according to our partners, who are also doing everything possible to provide access to water for people throughout Gaza. As of a week ago, they reported that 638 cubic metres of water were being distributed in northern Gaza on a daily basis through water trucking. For your reference, daily water distribution throughout all of Gaza prior to October 2023 was 380,000 cubic metres.
Meanwhile, in central Gaza, we and our humanitarian partners working to support water, sanitation and hygiene services there are preparing for winter and taking urgent steps to mitigate the risk of flooding. These include rehabilitating wastewater pumping stations in Deir al Balah and removing solid waste and cleaning stormwater channels in An Nuseirat refugee camp. Partners are also rehabilitating drainage systems and working to procure dewatering pumps.
Also in central Gaza, the World Health Organization reports that the second round of the polio vaccination campaign there concluded yesterday, with more than 181,000 children receiving the vaccine and over 148,000 children getting vitamin A supplements. Eight health facilities in central Gaza will continue to provide polio vaccines for families who were unable to bring their children to be vaccinated over the past three days.
The second round of the polio vaccination campaign is expected to start in southern Gaza tomorrow.
Meanwhile, in the West Bank, OCHA warns that Israeli settler violence in the context of the ongoing olive harvest season is threatening people's safety and livelihoods. Since the beginning of the month, OCHA has documented 32 attacks by Israeli settlers, during which 39 Palestinians harvesting olives were injured and about 600 trees and saplings were vandalized, sawn off, or stolen.

[Zambia]

Your brother is gone oh sorry 😐 to hear so

[fiazmariavlogs]

🤲🏽🇵🇸Palestinian 🏡 homeland/country with their own currency, borders and at least East Jerusalem as the capital inshallah

[vaishniumasangar]

I am just tell you guys. He is watching us ❤❤❤❤

[UltimateSeduction]

Will there be a memorial service to remember your best friend sinwar? 😂

[maranatha]

Time is short!!! ❤1 John 1:9 "If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness." Thank Yeshua Hamashiach. Praise Yehovah.❤

[peterbeer]

IDF just released a statement. There are still more objectives in Gaza, war is not over. Although that is from the military perspective. Maybe negotiations do become less difficult.

5:41 the highest number of violations of
5:42 Lebanese airspace by the Israeli Defense

Farhan, really? It's been something like 8000 rockets fired by Hezbollah at Israel and we're worries about Israeli "violations" of Lebanese airspace?! How about the Lebanese unwillingness to disarm Hezbollah for the last 18 years?! What a sick joke!

[marcelinadesousa]

Now tell us about the Israelis still displaced the forgotten hostages etc.Glad the peacekeepers didn't notice any rockets going in to Israel since October the 8th and all the tunnels being built to cause more terror. I feel for all the innocent people but Israel didn't start the war they also lost a lot of innocent people and there's still families waiting for their loved ones. Where was the presurre from UN against the terrorist organisations to release all the hostages and condem what they did and are still doing

[aliciatabb]

Detainrds in lebanon were moved inyo Beirut and they are under exttem unhumsne situation save them, and those lebanese whom hizbula detained

[errhaiminibachir]

ارض منزوعت ولعالم شاهد ولم يفعل شيء لمادا لم تاخدو حق فلسطين باي حق اخد ارض الغير يونسف مسؤوله عن حق البشريت وتركتم أطفال تموت ونساء في اي عالم نحن يانوسف
اجب اجل لاتعرف انه الماضي يعيد تربيتكم لتعتدلو وتحكمو بلحق فلن تهربو من العدل والعالم شاهد علي مستقبله وتخلفه في حق النفس التي خلقها الله
لم تاخدو حق فلسطين
اهل انتم اقوياء لتقتلو الاطفال ونساء وتساومونها حربا انه

[vaishniumasangar]

I am in the middle of of you and my dad

[AlexsandroLasch-mvqg]

Uns guris daqui estão ajudando a minha família esturra eu ñ estou nessa brincadeira diabólica eles estão mudando o nome da brincadeira toda hora pra ninguém suspeita

[AlexsandroLasch-mvqg]

Bom dia eu quero q vcs façam uma espionagem nos celulares da minha família eles estão nos esturros maconico e uns guri aqui estão ajudando eles nos esturros