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Daily Wrap 4 October 2024
Beirut's southern suburbs have continued to be targeted by Israeli airstrikes.
Lebanon: Medical aid arrives in Beirut amid intensifying Israeli strikes

As Lebanon suffered another night of heavy Israeli bombing, UN humanitarians and partners described how people desperate to flee the violence found the country's main border crossing into Syria cut by a new dawn strike, forcing them to skirt "a huge crater" and rubble on foot, to reach the other side.

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Peace and Security
Security Council members and delegates huddle for a discussion after emerging from closed consultations following a meeting on the situation in the Middle East in December 2023. (file)
Explainer: The journey of a UN Security Council resolution

How does a Security Council resolution get adopted?

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Peace and Security
Rampant violence and claimed many lives and displaced hundreds of thousands from their homes in Haiti. (file)
Gang attack in Haiti's Pont Sondé leaves 70 dead

An attack by a notorious gang in the town of Pont Sondé, Haiti, left at least 70 people dead on Thursday, after gunmen armed with automatic rifles opened fire, a spokesperson for the UN human rights office, OHCHR, said on Friday.

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Peace and Security
Delegations begin to arrive for the opening of the general debate of the UN General Assembly's seventy-ninth session.
The week the world comes to Manhattan: Looking back at UNGA79

Every September when UN Headquarters in New York is swamped – massive motorcades, intense security, snipers on rooftops and world leaders descending along with throngs of diplomats, media and celebrities – it's not easy to grasp what exactly is going on or what was achieved. 

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UN Affairs
Protesters demonstrate outside the Columbia University campus in New York City.
Rights expert urges universities to respect pro-Palestinian protests

Universities must respect peaceful activism and revise repressive policies targeting the pro-Palestinian solidarity movement on their campuses, a UN independent human rights expert said on Friday. 

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Human Rights
A person pointing to a damaged building in the Tulkarem camp. (file)
UN condemns deadly West Bank airstrike, attacks on Gaza schools

The UN chief has strongly condemned the killing of several Palestinians, including women and children, who died when a residential building in Tulkarem camp in the West Bank was hit by Israeli airstrikes on Thursday night.

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Peace and Security
A boy stands on a seawall that protects his family home from the rising seas in Majuro Atoll in the Marshall Islands.
UN rights council examines nuclear legacy consequences in the Marshall Islands

The UN Human Rights Council held a dialogue on Friday to examine the nuclear testing legacy in the Marshall Islands, which representatives from the Pacific nation said has left their people with some of the highest rates of cancer globally. 

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Human Rights
Orphaned children gathered in an open space in the Al-Baraka camp in the Al-Mawasi area of Khan Younis.
'Orphanage city' helps children in Gaza as the war grinds on

Some Palestinian orphans in Gaza have gotten a glimmer of hope as the tragedies triggered by the grinding nearly year-long war continue to deplete the Strip.

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Human Rights
A sample is taken from a person with mpox.
WHO approves first mpox diagnostic test for emergency use

The World Health Organization (WHO) announced on Friday that it has approved the first mpox diagnostic test for emergency use, which will boost diagnostic capacity in countries facing outbreaks of the disease. 

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Health
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General Dynamics Electric Boat Corp., Groton, Connecticut, is awarded a $376,788,600 cost-plus-fixed-fee modification to previously awarded contract N00024-20-C-2120 for Lead Yard support, and development studies and design efforts related to Virginia Class submarines. Work will be performed in Groton, Connecticut (92%); McLeansville, North Carolina (6%); Newport News, Virginia (1%); and Newport and Quonset, Rhode Island (1%), and is expected to be completed by October 2025. Fiscal 2022 shipbuilding and conversion (Navy) funding in the amount of $45,981,338 (35%); fiscal 2024 research, development, test and evaluation (Navy) funding in the amount of $28,695,643 (22%); fiscal 2021 shipbuilding and conversion (Navy) funding in the amount of $22,754,592 (17%); fiscal 2023 shipbuilding and conversion (Navy) funding in the amount of $19,053,112 (15%); and fiscal 2024 shipbuilding and conversion (Navy) funding in the amount of $13,944,171 (11%), will be obligated at time of award and will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. Naval Sea Systems Command, Washington, D.C., is the contracting activity.

General Dynamics Electric Boat Corp., Groton, Connecticut, was awarded a not-to-exceed $243,799,854 cost-plus-fixed-fee undefinitized order against previously issued basic ordering agreement N00024-22-G-4304, to provide unique parts and specialized material, including initial spares, for Virginia-class submarines. Work will be performed in Groton, Connecticut, and is expected to be completed by September 2028. Fiscal 2024 other procurement (Navy) funds in the amount of $243,799,854 will be obligated at time of award, and funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. This order was not competitively procured in accordance with 10 U.S. Code 3204(a)(1), only one responsible source and no other supplies or services will satisfy agency requirements). Naval Sea Systems Command, Washington, D.C., is the contracting activity (N00024-24-F-4319). (Awarded Sept. 27, 2024)

DEFENSE LOGISTICS AGENCY

Royal Aquarian Consultancy Inc.,* Iselin, New Jersey, has been awarded an estimated $16,232,295 modification (P00001) to a 30-month base contract (SPE605-24-D-4513) with one six-month option period. Location of performance is Texas, with a June 30, 2028, performance completion date. Using customer is Department of Homeland Security. Type of appropriation is fiscal 2024 through 2028 defense working capital funds. The contracting activity is the Defense Logistics Agency Energy, Fort Belvoir, Virginia.

BRZ Investment & Consulting LLC,* Boynton Beach, Florida, has been awarded an estimated $14,068,226 modification (P00010) to a 30-month base contract (SPE605-24-D-4502) with one six-month option period. Location of performance is Texas, with a June 30, 2028, performance completion date. Using customers are Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps, and federal civilian agencies. Type of appropriation is fiscal 2024 through 2028 defense working capital funds. The contracting activity is the Defense Logistics Agency Energy, Fort Belvoir, Virginia.

DEFENSE HEALTH AGENCY

CORRECTION: The Oct. 1, 2024, announcement of a $96,102,175 contract for well-being program support services to Ouraring Inc., San Francisco, California, omitted the amount of obligated funds. Fiscal 2024 operations and maintenance funds in the amount of $33,102,175 was obligated for the base period at the time of award. The contract has a period of performance beginning on Sept. 30, 2024, for a period of 12 months, with four option years.

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