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Daily Wrap 17 October 2024
More than 1.8 million people in Gaza face extreme levels of food insecurity, with families left with little to eat. (file)
Over 1.8 million in Gaza face extreme hunger

More than 1.8 million Palestinians in Gaza are experiencing "extremely critical" levels of hunger, with 70 per cent of crop fields destroyed and livelihoods decimated during the ongoing Israeli military offensive, a UN-backed food security assessment released on Thursday has revealed.

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Peace and Security
A UNIFIL Maritime Task Force vessel patrolling off the Lebanese coast.
Lebanon: Drone brought down by UNIFIL ship as cross-border fire intensifies

The UN Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) reported on Thursday that one of its Maritime Task Force vessels off the southern Lebanese coast intercepted an approaching drone.

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Peace and Security
Mothers and their children attend a nutrition centre in Tawila in North Darfur State, Sudan.
World News in Brief: Famine in Sudan, 400,000 now in Syria from Lebanon, women in the military, olive farmers in Palestine

A staggering 97 percent of Sudan's internally displaced along with civilians who've remained, are facing severe levels of hunger UN independent experts warned on Thursday, accusing Government troops and their rival Rapid Support Forces (RSF) of using "starvation tactics" against 25 million civilians in the country.

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Migrants and Refugees
A family displaced by gang violence in  Port-au-Prince, Haiti, lives in a tent on the roof of a former government building.
Nearly half the world's 1.1 billion poor live in conflict settings

More than a billion people worldwide live in acute poverty and 40 per cent are in countries exposed to violent conflict, according to a UN-backed study published on Thursday. 

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SDGs
A woman collects a hygiene kit in Bourj Hummoud, Lebanon. (file)
Lebanon: Cholera fears for communities uprooted by war

The UN health agency has warned that a first case of highly infectious cholera virus has been detected in northern Lebanon, raising fears that those displaced by Israeli bombardment may already be at risk from the potentially deadly disease.

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Peace and Security
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