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The Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs reports that another wave of deadly attacks struck Ukraine today. In Lviv — a regional centre in western Ukraine and home to many displaced people — that city suffered one of the deadliest attacks since the escalation of the war.

In Bangladesh, which has suffered from flash floods, triggered by heavy rainfall and upstream water flows from India, the United Nations team on the ground are providing water purification tablets, hygiene kits and food.

In Ukraine, the UN Humanitarian Coordinator there condemned an overnight attack in the Donetsk region, in the eastern part of the country, where a transit centre for displaced people was damaged. The site in Pokrovsk Town was sheltering people who had fled earlier hostilities.

In Nigeria, the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) is drawing attention to the plight of 3.7 million forcibly displaced people and the need to accelerate sustainable solutions for them.

The Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs is concerned about flooding in West and Central Africa that, just two months into the rainy season, has impacted over 700,000 people. The Central Emergency Response Fund allocated $10 million this year to Congo, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and Niger.

The following statement was issued today by the Spokesman for UN Secretary-General António Guterres:

Life-saving supplies in Port Sudan are ready to be loaded and dispatched to Zamzam camp in North Darfur, where famine conditions are present, the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs’ Director of Operations told the Security Council today, stressing swift approvals and security assurances are crucial.

The following statement was issued today by the Spokesman for UN Secretary-General António Guterres:

The Office of Internal Oversight Services has completed its investigation into the alleged involvement of 19 area staff members of the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East in the 7 October 2023 armed attack in southern Israel. It found nine may have been involved and will terminate those individuals.

At least 53 Palestinian detainees are known to have died in Israeli military facilities and prisons since last October, according to a UN human rights office report published today on arbitrary, prolonged and incommunicado detentions, impacting thousands of Palestinians, including UN staff.