Damaged installations include nine schools and two health centers housing more than 11,000 people. At least five displaced people were injured and the UNRWA field office has also suffered damage.
The agency claims that its operations in Gaza City – where Israeli air and land attacks have intensified – were sharply reduced after its only functional health center north of Central Gaza was forced to close.
The United Nations humanitarian office, OCHA, has also reported an increase in travel in recent weeks, as well as nearly 28,000 cases of acute malnutrition in children under the age of five recorded in July and August.
In the occupied West Bank, UNRWA says that Israeli forces have introduced more restrictions on the Palestinian movement by installing new road doors.
Israel “intention” to permanently control Gaza
Meanwhile, a new report by the obligatory investigation organization of the United Nations Human Rights Council on Palestine said that Israel has demonstrated a “clear and coherent intention” to establish permanent control over the Gaza Strip.
The Commission investigated developments relating to land and housing in all regions of the occupied Palestinian territory and in Israel.
He finds in relation to Gaza that the Israeli authorities “deeply demolished and systematically demolished civil infrastructure in the corridors and the buffer zone and permanently enlarged under their control reaching 75% of the Gaza Strip by July 2025.”
The actions undertaken to extend the buffer zone and establish corridors have considerably reduced the available territory for Palestinians, with important implications for their ability to exercise their right to self -determination.
Which responds to complaints on paracetamol and vaccines
The World Health Organization, which responded to remarks made on Monday by President Donald Trump in Washington, suggesting that using paracetamol during pregnancy can cause autism.
Spokesperson Tarik Jasarevic said that if some observation studies had raised questions, many others have found no link of this type and the evidence remains generally incoherent. If there was a strong link, he said, it would have been seen in a coherent way in several studies.
Be careful during pregnancy
Jasarevic stressed that drugs during pregnancy should always be used with caution and under medical supervision, especially in the first quarter.
Speaking in Geneva in response to journalists’ questions, the WHO spokesperson also rejected the suggestions that childhood routine vaccines cause autism, noting that WHO vaccination calendars are based on decades of evidence and have saved more than 150 million lives in the past 50 years.
Uncontrolled high blood pressure puts more than a billion in danger
Stay with WHO, more than 1.4 billion people worldwide live with hypertension, but only one in five on the condition under control.
The new thing which reports on chronic high blood pressure – launched during the 80th General Assembly of the United Nations during a co -organized event with Bloomberg Philanthropies and resolved to save lives – stresses that uncontrolled hypertension is a main engine of heart attacks, frames, kidney disease and demencing, killing more than 10 million people each year.
Over 1,000 lives lost per hour
“Each hour, more than 1,000 lives are lost because of cerebral vascular accidents and cardiac crises of high blood pressure – and most of these deaths are avoidable,” said who chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus. “Countries have the tools to change this story. With political will and investment, millions of lives can be saved. ”
The report shows that only 28% of low -income countries have constant access to all hypertension drugs recommended by WHO, compared to 93% of high income countries. In 99 countries, control rates remain less than 20%.
Despite these shortcomings, progress is possible. Bangladesh, the Philippines and South Korea have shown how the integration of hypertension care in universal health can increase treatment and survival rates.
Nicaragua: United Nations experts warn against the escalation of repression beyond borders
The Nicaraguan government extends its repression of criticism far beyond its own borders, independent UN rights in Geneva said on Tuesday because they presented a new report to the Human Rights Council.
Nicaragua’s group of human rights experts said opponents of exile are being stripped of their nationality, have denied passports and targeted by digital surveillance, the confiscation of goods and threats for relatives still within the country.
“All their lives are systematically dismantled, starting with their uprooting and their erosion of legal identity, cascade in economic collapse, social isolation and omnipresent surveillance,” said President Jan-Michael Simon.
‘Cynical and calculated’
He added that the abusive use of international systems, including false interpol alerts, was part of a “cynical and calculated” strategy to avoid responsibility while silencing dissent.
The panel member, Reed Brody, underlined the murder in June of the major and criticism of the government of the Roberto Samcam retired army in Costa Rica, noting that “even beyond borders, opponents of the government do not feel safe”.
While investigations continue and no official link has been established, he said that the attack highlighted the climate of fear against the exile Nicaragues.
The duties investigator, Ariela Peralta, raised the alarm of a resurgence of forced disappearances within the country, dozens of detainees held strangers and two recent deaths in detention. “When people are detained in secret and die in police custody, state responsibility is engaged under international law,” she said.
The independent expert organization urged states to consider filed a complaint before the International Court of Justice (ICJ) and to intensify the protection of exiled Nicaragues abroad.
