Ramiz Alakbarov, the UN's acting Middle East peace coordinator, told the Security Council that resolution 2803 is not being carried out. Gaza's Ministry of Health counts some 1,500 Palestinians killed since the truce. Held over from the issue of 16 October.
The UN Human Rights Monitoring Mission in Ukraine also verified 2,105 civilians injured in September. It said Russian attacks intensified, and the International Organization for Migration warned that returnees may have to flee again this winter.
Special Rapporteur Sofía Monsalve Suárez told the Third Committee that famine is returning even as the number of hungry people fell to about 645 million in 2025. The World Food Programme projects that El Niño could push 49 million more people into acute food insecurity.
UN News reports that Kenya now has three confirmed Ebola cases, one of them fatal. The World Health Organization says it is also stepping up preparedness across its eastern Mediterranean region, where no cases have been found.
The General Assembly's Fourth Committee approved texts on colonialism, Non-Self-Governing Territories and Gibraltar, mostly by recorded vote. The United States voted against several and told the committee that the Special Committee on Decolonization wastes UN resources. Held over from the issue of 16 October.
The International Organization for Migration says 121,530 of them are in Taiz governorate. Three UN agencies told journalists in Geneva that aid access to the city is cut and its hospitals are running out of supplies.