The sound of gunfire crackled over the phone as the teenage girl hid in the car and spoke. "They are shooting at us," 15-year-old Layan told paramedics.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has ordered the military to prepare a plan to evacuate civilians from Rafah ahead of an expected Israeli invasion.
The International Court of Justice stopped short of ordering a ceasefire in Gaza but demanded Israel contain deaths after South Africa had accused Israel of violating international laws.
The agency, known by its acronym UNRWA, has been the main agency providing aid for Gaza's population amid the humanitarian disaster caused by Israel's offensive against Hamas.
A tank attack on a United Nations center sheltering thousands of displaced Palestinians has killed at least nine people and wounded 75 others in Gaza's second largest city
Making Gaza a "slaughterhouse". "Erasing the Gaza Strip from the face of the earth". Such language is key to South Africa's case accusing Israel of genocide, which the country denies.
Israel described the allegations as hypocritical and said that one of the biggest cases ever to come before an international court reflected a world turned upside down.
The UN and medical staff have warned that airstrikes are hitting closer to hospitals, where tens of thousands of Palestinians have sought shelter alongside thousands of wounded.
A furious diplomatic spat between Israel and the United Nations is escalating, with Israeli officials calling for the resignation of Secretary General Antonio Guterres after he said Hamas' October 7 attacks on the country "did not happen in a vacuum."
United Nations chief warned at a high-level meeting that the situation in the Middle East is growing more dire by the hour, with the risk of the Gaza war spreading through the region increasing.
The Rafah border crossing between Egypt and Gaza has opened, allowing desperately needed aid to flow to civilians running short of food, medicine, water.
The United Nations undersecretary general for humanitarian affairs and emergency relief coordinator, publicly criticised Israel's evacuation order, suggesting that it was completely unviable.
The specialised United Nations agency's announcement followed the same call from American meteorologists. The Bureau of Meteorology is yet to follow suit.
Famagusta was once home to the biggest tourist hotspot in Cyprus, but now it's a derelict and abandoned ghost town, holding remnants of a painful past that the island is still struggling to forget.
Australia could soon see a repeat of the conditions that sparked 2019-20's devastating bushfire season, as our planet is almost certain to set a new hottest year on record in the next half-decade.
Sudan's warring generals have pledged to observe a new three-day truce brokered by the United States and Saudi Arabia in an attempt to pull Africa's third-largest nation back from the abyss.
Droughts, floods and record low ice levels - from the top of the world's mountains to the depths of the ocean, the climate crisis took a heavy toll in 2022.
Humanity still has a chance, close to the last one, to prevent the worst of climate change's future harms, a top United Nations panel of scientists says.
For the first time, United Nations members have agreed on a unified treaty to protect biodiversity in the high seas — nearly half the planet's surface — concluding two weeks of talks in New York.
The humble baguette — the crunchy ambassador for French baking around the world — is being added to the United Nation's list of intangible cultural heritage.
A United Nations-backed delegation has recommended the Great Barrier Reef be listed as "in danger", citing serious risks from climate change and water quality.
Ukraine says it will investigate video footage circulated on Russian social media which allegedly shows Ukrainian forces killed Russian troops who may have been trying to surrender.